Jean-Michel Lafleur is Research Professor at the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Liège, Associate Director of CEDEM and a Senior Research Associate at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). Jean-Michel is also the Coordinator of the IMISCOE Research Network (2022-2026). His area of expertise includes immigrants' access to welfare, EU mobility and the political participation of minorities.
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1061
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8954-5167
X/Twitter https://twitter.com/LafleurJeanM

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines

Roles

  • Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS)

    Other, Liège, Belgium
    Senior Research Associate

  • Université de Liège

    University, Liège, Belgium
    Research Professor

  • Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations (CEDEM)

    Research Institute, Liège, Belgium
    Associate Director

  • IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network)

    Other, Liège, Belgium
    Coordinator

  • IMISCOE

    Other, Research Network, Belgium
    Coordinator

  • Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS

    Other, Brussels, Belgium
    Senior Research Associate

  • Université de Liège

    Other, Liege, Belgium
    Research professor and Associate Director

Research

How framing impacts attitudes about electoral rights for non‐resident citizens

Authors Staffan Himmelroos, Staffan Himmelroos, Jean‐Michel Lafleur, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 1
1 Journal Article

Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection

Authors Alexandra Voivozeanu, Jean‐Michel Lafleur
Year 2023
Journal Name The British Journal of Sociology
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2 Journal Article

Migration and Access to Welfare Benefits in the EU: The Interplay between Residence and Nationality

Authors Daniela Vintila, Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2020
Book Title Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1).
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7 Book Chapter

Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for French Citizens Abroad

Authors Jean-Thomas Arrighi de Casanova, Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2020
Book Title Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2)
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8 Book Chapter

Leaving Europe: New Crises, Entrenched Inequalities and Alternative Routes of Social Mobility

Authors Karel Arnaut, Jean-Michel Lafleur, Nadia Fadil, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 9
9 Journal Article

Why do parties support emigrant voting rights?

Authors Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Irina Ciornei, Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2019
Journal Name European Political Science Review
13 Journal Article

Report on political participation of mobile EU citizens : Belgium

Authors Cristina Daniela VINTILA, Jean-Michel LAFLEUR, Louise NIKOLIC
Description
This report explores challenges to political participation of mobile EU citizens in Belgium. It discusses electoral rights of non-resident citizens and non-citizen residents from the EU in European Parliament and local elections. The report also offers recommendations on how to increase political participation of mobile EU citizens in this country.
Year 2018
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14 Report

Transnational Health Insurances as Social Remittances: The Case of Congolese Immigrants in Belgium

Authors Jean-Michel Lafleur, Olivier Lizin
Year 2016
Book Title Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe
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19 Book Chapter

Migration policy reforms in the context of economic and political crises: the case of Belgium

Authors Sonia Gsir, Jean-Michel Lafleur, Mikolaj Stanek
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
21 Journal Article

Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (post) crisis Europe

Principal investigator Jean-Michel Lafleur (Principal Investigator)
Description
The negative employment and social developments across Europe since the start of the crisis, coupled with increased fiscal constraints and changing migration patterns, have led to increasing depictions of EU and third-country immigrants as ‘abusers’ of their social protection systems. Member States have accordingly sought reduce migrants’ ability to access social protection benefits, despite the fact that they are disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion. This project looks at the different strategies that migrants have to access social protection within (post) crisis Europe and does so by explicitly integrating social policy and migration studies’ approaches on the phenomenon. More precisely, it aims to study transnational social protection, that we define as migrants’ cross-border strategies to cope with social risks in areas such as health, long-term care, pensions or unemployment that combine entitlements to host and home state-based public welfare policies and market-, family- and community-based practices. This study thus consists in, first, identifying the social protection policies and programs that home countries make accessible to their citizens abroad, and then compiling this information into an online database. We will then aggregate the results of the database into a Transnational Social Protection Index (TSPIx) in order to determine the overall level of engagement of each state with citizens abroad in a comparative way. Second, on the basis of the results of the index, we will select case studies of migrants from two EU and two non-EU countries that vary in their level of engagement in providing social protection to their citizens abroad. We will then undertake multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork to qualitatively assess the informal social protection strategies used by migrants and examine their interaction with formal host and home state social protection provision.
Year 2016
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22 Project

Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (post) crisis Europe

Description
The negative employment and social developments across Europe since the start of the crisis, coupled with increased fiscal constraints and changing migration patterns, have led to increasing depictions of EU and third-country immigrants as ‘abusers’ of their social protection systems. Member States have accordingly sought reduce migrants’ ability to access social protection benefits, despite the fact that they are disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion. This project looks at the different strategies that migrants have to access social protection within (post) crisis Europe and does so by explicitly integrating social policy and migration studies’ approaches on the phenomenon. More precisely, it aims to study transnational social protection, that we define as migrants’ cross-border strategies to cope with social risks in areas such as health, long-term care, pensions or unemployment that combine entitlements to host and home state-based public welfare policies and market-, family- and community-based practices. This study thus consists in, first, identifying the social protection policies and programs that home countries make accessible to their citizens abroad, and then compiling this information into an online database. We will then aggregate the results of the database into a Transnational Social Protection Index (TSPIx) in order to determine the overall level of engagement of each state with citizens abroad in a comparative way. Second, on the basis of the results of the index, we will select case studies of migrants from two EU and two non-EU countries that vary in their level of engagement in providing social protection to their citizens abroad. We will then undertake multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork to qualitatively assess the informal social protection strategies used by migrants and examine their interaction with formal host and home state social protection provision.
Year 2016
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23 Project

The enfranchisement of citizens abroad: variations and explanations

Authors Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2015
Journal Name Democratization
26 Journal Article

Beyond Dutch Borders: Transnational Politics among Colonial Migrants, Guest Workers and the Second Generation

Authors Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2013
Journal Name CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY-A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS
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29 Journal Article

La participation politique transnationale des Belges expatriés : un cas d’exportation des divisions ethniques ?

Authors Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2013
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
30 Journal Article

Towards a transatlantic dialogue in the study of immigrant political transnationalism

Authors Marco Martiniello, Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2008
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 46
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39 Journal Article

« ¿Bienvenidos a Miami? »

Authors Jean-Michel Lafleur
Year 2005
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
40 Journal Article

Lessons from the South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis

Authors Mikolaj Stanek, Jean-Michel Lafleur
Book Title South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis
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44 Book Chapter

Restrictions on Access to Social Protection by New Southern European Migrants in Belgium

Authors Mikolaj Stanek, Jean-Michel Lafleur
Book Title South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis
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46 Book Chapter

EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts and Issues

Authors Mikolaj Stanek, Jean-Michel Lafleur
Book Title South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis
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47 Book Chapter

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