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Marie-Claire Foblets

Prof. dr. Marie-Claire Foblets is antroploge, filosofe en juriste. Ze is experte in het vreemdelingenrecht, de rechtsantropologie, en de toepassing en ontwikkeling van familierecht in migratiecontext. In haar bijdrage buigt ze zich over de vraag of de toekomst van onze 'plurale democratie' bedreigd wordt door de toenemende religieuze en culturele diversiteit in onze samenleving.

Marie-Claire, Baroness Foblets is a Belgian lawyer and anthropologist, who is currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research interests are interculturalism, migration and minorities. In 2004, she was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences for her research on anthropology. In 2016, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven gave her an honorary degree. She is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Professor of Law and Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. In 2007, she was featured on a Belgian stamp.read more on Wikipedia...