Dounia
Bourabain
Dounia Bourabain is a Ph.D. Candidate at the sociology department of the Free University of Brussels. Her current research focuses on the experiences of women from different ethnic minority backgrounds with racism and sexism in higher education institutions. Her work has been published in, amongst others, Gender, Work and Organization; the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; the DuBois Review; Race, Ethnicity and Education; and Higher Education Policy. She is also an editorial member of the Journal of Gender Studies. Besides her academic work, she also serves as an advisor in the federal evaluation commission on anti-discrimination law and other Belgian anti-discrimination organizations. She has been awarded several prizes for her academic work and is a Fulbright scholar.
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4382-8268 |
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Expertise
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
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Hasselt University
University, Hasselt, Belgium
Assistant professor -
Hasselt University
University, Hasselt, Belgium
Post-doctoral researcher -
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Other, Brussels, Belgium
Research
Integration, negotiation, interrogation: Gendered‐racialised barriers to the socialisation of doctoral students in Belgian higher education
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Education |
Racial and Gender Inequality as a (Non)Crisis: The Discursive Strategies of Academic-Managers in Belgian and Danish universities
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Business Research |
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter‐Paul Verhaeghe |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sociology Compass |
Ethnic prejudices and public support for anti-discrimination policies on the housing market
| Authors | Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Billie Martiniello, Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |
Shiny on the Outside, Rotten on the Inside? Perceptions of Female Early Career Researchers on Diversity Policies in Higher Education Institutions
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Higher Education Policy |
EVERYDAY RACISM IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race |
Everyday sexism and racism in the ivory tower: The experiences of early career researchers on the intersection of gender and ethnicity in the academic workplace
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Gender, Work & Organization |
The Conceptualization of Everyday Racism in Research on the Mental and Physical Health of Ethnic and Racial Groups: a Systematic Review
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities |
School of choice or schools’ choice? Intersectional correspondence testing on ethnic and class discrimination in the enrolment procedure to Flemish kindergarten
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Peter A. J. Stevens |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Race Ethnicity and Education |
What Are You Reading?
| Authors | Pinto, Bourabain, Atakay |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies |
Could you help me, please? Intersectional field experiments on everyday discrimination in clothing stores
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Our stories matter: Why migrant academics’ narratives are key to organization studies
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Organization |
Kunt u mij helpen?: intersectionele praktijktesten naar alledaagse discriminatie tijdens het winkelen in Vlaanderen en Brussel
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Sociologos |
Suggested Research
Decolonial hacking of higher education: reflections on the collective relational praxis of building a School of Social Sciences in Belgium
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Patrizia Zanoni, Leen Swinnen |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Joy as a technology of resistance and freedom: critical insights from racialized scholars in academia
| Authors | F. Zehra Çolak, Dounia Bourabain, Zakia Essanhaji, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |