New RAISE publication

A new RAISE publication was published on the 9th of April in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration studies.

📰 The main finding of this study is that while inclusive narratives may not directly enhance intergroup solidarity, they can reduce support for radical-right rhetoric that prioritizes “natives first”. Congratulations to all authors involved!.

Link to the study:

Campbell-Bethancourt, E., Bilgili, Ö., Blommaert, L., & Lubbers, M. (2025). Converging ethnicity and class: a strategy for fostering interethnic solidarity and mitigating income inequality. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2487566

RAISE-Policy Dialogue meeting 18.2

On the 18th of February, the RAISE- team hosted a Policy Dialogue meeting, bringing together leading representatives from the European commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, EU Fundamental rights agency, the Council of Europe and The European Network against Racism. RAISE researchers presented our current work- packages and the meeting resulted in a fruitful dialogue with the policy makers attending. Looking forward to similar meetings in the future!

Raise- Ankara meeting

RAISE figured in the International Equality Meeting: conference on Strengthening civil society coalitions to combat discrimination. Marcel Lubbers (PI RAISE), presented and discussed the role of structural racism and discrimination and acknowledgement and recognition of different groups and interests in societies, in Ankara, Turkey.

RAISE – Budapest meeting

CEU in Budapest hosted the RAISE Fall 2024 meeting. The project team discussed the progress in the separate work packages.

For the Work Packages that started in May 2024, the design of the studies was shared. For WP2 Cigdem shared a first overview of how the collected social media looked like. For WP3, Vera and Ágnes discussed the design of the focus groups, while Gabor Hajdu presented the overview of data and first findings on intersectional inequalities. Katrín showed us the overview of the WP5 data availability to answer questions on collective actions.

For Work Packages that started earlier, results of the qualitative research from WP1 were shared by Annemie, Kasia, Ágnes, Eline and Vera. For WP4, Zuzanna and Kasia updated us on the development of the questionnaire that will be fielded this Winter. Eduardo presented the findings from the first experiments from the Dutch election survey.

Colleagues Norbert, Dominika and Seda from the NGOs UCCU, Open Republic and AMER discussed and shared suggestions for the translation of the shared findings to professional output.

Norbert provided a highly relevant and fascinating city-walk ‘Unconvential tour of the 8^th district through the eyes of Roma’.