Institute for Societal Resilience
For a couple of years, we (Syrian Volunteers NL and Refugee Academy) have been working together around the importance of refugee perspectives in policy making and the challenges connected. Some refugee advocates and refugee-led initiatives have already been connected with us in this … Continue reading
On Monday June 27th, the LIMBO exhibition at VU Views at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will be opened to the public. LIMBO is an exhibition created as an accumulation of content made during a workshop series for and by queer/refugee/migrant community … Continue reading
More and more, the societal implications of scientific research and the associated responsibility of the researcher is being stressed and rethought. Engaged scholarship is one way in which scholars approach doing research and position their work within society. Yet, what … Continue reading
Personal networks can be both enabling and constraining in inclusion practices. This study focuses on the contribution of a particular neighborhood initiative for refugees in Amsterdam. Earlier studies have shown that in the specific context of the Netherlands’ welfare state, … Continue reading
In 2022, AmCham is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a year full of celebratory and notable events. Leading up to the big anniversary event of January 26, AmCham will host a series of (breakfast) sessions in collaboration with the content … Continue reading
Halleh Ghorashi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Jeroen Kluck (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and Hergen Spits (University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC) will receive the Impact Award 2021 this year. Every year the Impact Award is presented to renowned researchers or … Continue reading
This course invites students to rethink and re-evaluate standard methods of thinking, knowing, doing, and sharing within academia. We will highlight artistic practice as research and the act of creation as a form of knowledge in and of itself. Continue reading
A refugee experience knows many different phases, each of which is fueled by positive and negative meanings. It starts with leaving behind everything that is familiar – your life, your loved ones, your environment – and the need to make … Continue reading
Today we are launching the website for our research project ‘’Learning Crossroads for Refugee Inclusion’’. This project researches citizens’ initiatives whose mandates are centred on the promotion of the social participation and inclusion of refugees in the Netherlands. There has … Continue reading
Our international colleagues from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), Oslo Met University (Norway), Georgetown University, (United States), and Malmö University (Sweden), have recently published their new edited volume “Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values?”. This book explores how … Continue reading