Researchers

Chiara Candaele is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW, Amsterdam). She specializes in the contemporary history of children and youth and is interested in the global dynamics of power and care. Her research notably deals with the historical intersections of children and colonialism. She obtained her PhD from the University of Antwerp in 2023, with a thesis about transnational adoption in postcolonial Belgium. In 2021, she was a member of the Flemish expert panel on malpractices in intercountry adoptions. Between 2021 and 2023, she worked as a scientific collaborator on the research project Resolution-Métis (State Archives), where she studied the forced displacement of métis children during the Belgian colonization of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi (1885-1962). She is currently affiliated with the NWO-funded project Child Separation (2023-2027) and is conducting research on child circulation and institutional youthcare in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia (1808-1984).

Mail: chiara.candaele@huc.knaw.nl

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chiara-Candaele

Withaeckx, S., A. Cawayu & C. Candaele (eds.) (2023). Voorbij transnationale adoptie. Een kritische en meerstemmige dialoog. Brussels: ASP Editions.

Candaele C. (2023).  “Voorbij de roze bril: een historisch-genealogische benadering van transnationale adoptie in het postkoloniale België.” In Withaeckx, S., Cawayu, A., Candaele, C., Voorbij transnationale adoptie: een kritische en meerstemmige dialoog. Brussels: ASP Editions, 53-66.

Cammu, N., C. Candaele, A. Cawayu, J. Van De Velde (eds.) (2021). Deelrapport historisch-sociaalwetenschappelijke werkgroep: expertpanel interlandelijke adoptie. Vlaams Ministerie van Welzijn.

Van Asch, V., A. Cawayu A., C. Candaele, F. Swennen, J. Van de Velde, J. Ryngaert, M. N. Aerts, S. Withaeckx, W. Vandenhole (eds.) (2021). Expertenpanel inzake interlandelijke adoptie: eindrapport. Vlaamse Ministerie van Welzijn.

Candaele, C. (2020). “Mother Metropole: Adoptions of Rwandan Minors in Postcolonial Belgium (1970-1994).” BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, 135(3-4), 209-233.

Candaele, C. (2020). “Catholic humanitarianism and transnational adoptions of orphaned Indian Youth (Belgium, 1970-1984).” In Scutaru, B., & S. Paoli (eds.). Child Migration and Biopolitics. Old and New Experiences in Europe. London: Routledge, 64-84.

Candaele, C. (2018). “Grenzeloos ouderschap? Historisch denken over interlandelijke adoptie en transnationale verplaatsingen van kinderen.” Contemporanea / Belgische Vereniging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 40:1,1-5.