Dounia
Bourabain
Dounia Bourabain is assistant professor of sociology at Hasselt University’s School of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on everyday power struggles in academic settings, from a critical sociological and decolonial approach. Her recent work spans topics such as everyday racism and sexism in academia, decolonial hacking in higher education, and the role of counterspaces in higher education. She serves on the editorial team of race and ethnicity section of Sociology Compass. Prof. Bourabain received the Emma Goldman Snowball Award for her dedication to inequality issues across Europe. She is also a co-host of the podcast Joy in Academia.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 6523 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4382-8268 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-dounia-bourabain-7a29a913b/ | |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dounia-Bourabain-2?ev=hdr_xprf |
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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
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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 |
Our stories matter: Why migrant academics’ narratives are key to organization studies
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Organization |
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 |
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 |
Kunt u mij helpen?: intersectionele praktijktesten naar alledaagse discriminatie tijdens het winkelen in Vlaanderen en Brussel
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Sociologos |
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 |
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter‐Paul Verhaeghe |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sociology Compass |
EVERYDAY RACISM IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
| Authors | Dounia Bourabain, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |