If the importance of the foreign population in Brussels is amply
demonstrated and the diverse backgrounds of Brussels inhabitants is regularly studied, the scientific research progressively integrates the dimension of time spent in Belgium (diachronic approach of the phenomenon) in their descriptive analyses. In regards to this relative lack of attention to the temporal dimension by the scientific world, the political speeches – and the plans that they establish – sometimes add to the confusion, between programs intended exclusively for newly-arriving migrants and plans addressing the children of immigrants before them on behalf of a supposed cultural difference, integrating them into the society in which they were born.

What reveals the actual statistics on the importance of new arrivals in the Brussels-Capital region? What are the public policy strategies that preside over the implementation of actual plans and those to come? What are the institutional kinds of difficulties that the RBC encounters from the moment
that it pretends to face political, social, and economic challenges induced by this phenomenon? What are the deployed resources that are prioritized, if not obligatory, by a true reception policy in the Brussels Capital Region?

Basic Information

Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 12:00-2:00 PM, University of
Saint-Louis, Testing Room (43 boulevard du jardin botanique, 1000 Bruxelles – follow the signs)

Program

12:00PM- sandwiches; 12:30PM – Report; 1:30PM – Debate

Registration: Free yet mandatory, via this link: here