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Smart(phone) travelling: understanding the use and impact of mobile technology on irregular migration journeys
Get PDFThis article analyses how mobile technology impacts on irregular migrants' journeys. It is based on trajectory ethnography with 11 Afghan, Iranian and Syrian migrants whom the first author met in Turkey and Greece in the spring of 2015. These migrants were followed (partly digitally) to Serbia, Hungary, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. We argue that the method of trajectory ethnography is a useful tool that allows us to understand how mobile technology shapes and facilitate parts of the journey - like, for example, decisions on routes and modes of travel, final destinations and the financing of irregular migration. This methodology leads to a more nuanced understanding of irregular migration because it enables us to capture the complex dynamics involved in irregular migration processes and to reflect on decisions taken within the process
[Review of: S. Walsum, T. Spijkerboer (2006) Women and Immigration Law. New variations on classical feminist themes]
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Book Review Symposium – “Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit”
No full textBen Rogaly’s Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit – a symposium organised by Madhumita Dutta (Ohio State University), featuring reviews by Darius Scott (Dartmouth College), Geraldine Pratt (University of British Columbia), Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University), Kendra Strauss (Simon Fraser University) and Michelle Buckley (University of Toronto), with a response from Ben Rogaly (University of Sussex)
Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands
Get PDFBased on semi-structured interviews with 10 families and one single person from Syria who were resettled under the EU Turkey Statement, this article looks into processes of homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands. We distinguish between homemaking practices in and around the house and in the neighbourhood, and also look at the wider transnational social environment of refugees in order to understand how Syrian resettled refugees experience everyday life in the Dutch small to medium-sized towns to which they are dispersed. What constraints and opportunities do they experience in everyday life and how are resettled refugees becoming part of the community after being dispersed upon arrival? And how do resettled refugees who were identified as exceptionally vulnerable, experience the transition, upon arrival, to an integration system which relies heavily on refugees using their own agency
‘We prefer our Dutch’: International Students’ Housing Experiences in the Netherlands
Get PDFThis article investigates how international students find and maintain housing and what constraints they have to deal with in the process. It reveals how the interplay between personal characteristics and housing-market features shapes housing biographies and unequally disadvantages certain international students over others. Eighteen in-depth interviews with international students were conducted about the housing situation for them in Utrecht, a Dutch student city. Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) of the interview data found that international students’ housing biographies differ substantially, both in progression and outcomes. Despite some students successfully finding adequate housing, many described living involuntarily in conditions of stress, instability and insecurity and a number experienced progressively worsening housing conditions. The students ascribed their difficulties to discrimination and structural disadvantages on the housing market. In light of these findings, this article calls for a re-evaluation of the Dutch student housing system
Over populaire methoden in kwalitatief onderzoek naar gezondheid(szorg): Trends in 25 jaar KWALON
Get PDFHet idee voor de KWALON-najaarsconferentie 2019 (zie verslag Beuving, Eeuwijk & Mourits, 2020) en daaraan gekoppeld dit themanummer ontstond, doordat er een stijgende trend is van promovendi uit de gezondheidszorg die onderwijs bij ons komen volgen. Kwalitatief onderzoek blijkt in de gezondheidszorg aan belang te winnen; een trend die we al enige jaren waarnemen. Tijdens onze brainstormsessies over thema’s voor conferenties en themanummers van het tijdschrift leek het ons de moeite waard om eens in te zoomen op gezondheid. Nog leuker vonden wij het om het thema ‘gezondheid’ in bredere zin bij de kop te nemen, dus niet alleen beperkt tot kwalitatief onderzoek binnen de gezondheidszorg, maar kwalitatief onderzoek naar gezondheid. Dat kon bijvoorbeeld gaan over gezondheid op de werkvloer, de relatie tussen ruimte en gezondheid of tussen voeding en gezondheid, over ethiek in gezondheidsonderzoek en last but not least: onderzoek binnen de gezondheidszorg. Zo gezegd, zo gedaan
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