The Education Unit in the Faculty of Education hosts a kick-off event for the Decolonization of Education and Research on Migration (DERM) project.
In March 2024, The Education Unit in the Faculty of Education hosted a kick-off event for the Decolonization of Education and Research on Migration (DERM) project. The event was opened by DVC- Academic Prof Vivienne Lawack, and organised by project co-investigator, Professor Rajendra Chetty.
The DERM project and research network has three main and interconnected goals. First, the scope of bringing together scholars from different regions of the world is, (1), to analyze and discuss the multiple forms in which coloniality shapes the broad interdisciplinary field of migration studies. Based on that, the project aims (2), to jointly develop better research methodologies and, (3), better teaching tools to decolonize knowledge on migration. The project is funded by Ghent University within the “New international thematic networks” research programme. Due to its multifaceted and multidimensional objectives and in order to transcend disciplinary boundaries as envisaged by most postcolonial scholarship, the network brings together expertise from different domains (e.g., social pedagogy and education, sociology, political science, history, medicine).
Project Members include:
- Ilse Derluyn, Ghent University
- Giacomo Orsini, Ghent University
- Rajendra Chetty, University of the Western Cape
- Juan Carlos Ruiz, Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana de Chile (UTEM)
- Sonia Romero-Pérez, Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana de Chile (UTEM)
- Ulisses Terto Neto, The State University of Goiás (UEG), Brazil
- Akiko Waseda Kunihiro, University, Tokyo
- Anurekha Chari Wagh, University of Hyderabad, India
- Yousaf Farhan, Punjab University, Pakistan
- Wael Garnaoui, University of Sousse, Tunisa
- Senka Neuman-Stanivukovic, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Blanca Benemérita Cordero, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico
