Babette Wyckaert

Babette Wyckaert is a PhD-researcher with a background in Architecture and Urban Planning (KU Leuven 2015, 2017), her research concerns housing trajectories of refugees in Flanders (northern part of Belgium). Following newly arriving refugees within the initiatives of a number of NGOs in smaller municipalities and medium-sized towns, she studies the way in which refugees’ ways of home-making (acces to housing, socio- spatial relations, networks) affect their socio-spatial integration by using refugees’ housing pathways as an indicator.

Research:

Housing pathways
migration
Migration & mobility in(to) new destinations
Refugees
Socio-spatial integration

Key Publications:

Vincent, A., Wyckaert, B., De Decker, P., Schillebeeckx, E. with De Decker, P. (corresp. author) (2020). Op zoek naar een thuis. Een verkenning van het woongedrag van Assyrische Christenen in het Mechelse. Ruimte & Maatschappij, 12 (2).

Wyckaert, E., Leinfelder, H. & De Decker, P. (2020). STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: The transition from shelter to housing for refugees in Belgium. Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 4 (2020), 74-88

Wyckaert, E. & Leinfelder, H. (2019). Housing pathways of refugees as an indicator for (social/spatial) integration in Flanders. Abstract of the EAHN conference on DISPLACEMENT AND DOMESTICITY SINCE 1945. Refugees, migrants and expats making homes. Brussels: Palace of the Academies