This is the report on the situation in the Netherlands in the field of youth, young homeless people and unaccompanied minor aliens. The report describes risk factors for children and young people in relation to social exclusion and homelessness. This report forms the first part of the international comparative study ‘CSEYHP’. MOVISIE carries out this three-year study by order of the European Union. The cooperative partners are three universities in: England, the Czech Republic and Portugal. The objectives of ‘Combating Youth Homelessness’ are as follows: 1. to understand the life trajectories of different homeless youth populations in different national contexts; 2. to develop the concepts of risk and social exclusion in relation to the experience of young homeless people and to the reinsertion process; 3. to test how different methods of working contribute to the reinsertion process for young people; 4. to investigate the roles of and relationships between the young person, trusted adults, lead professionals, peer mentors and family members in the delivery of these programmes across all four countries. When preparing the national reports, the three partner countries the Czech Republic, England and Portugal use the same format as used in the Dutch report. Based on the four national reports, England will prepare a comparative report, in which the four national situations will be compared.
This study tries to understand the power of knowledge within collaborative care networks to provide insights for designing successful collaboration within care networks by combining intersectionality and epistemic (in)justice. Becoming an informal carer for someone with an acquired brain injury (ABI) causes a dramatic disruption of daily life. Collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background may result in unjust and unfair situations within care networks. Carer experiences are shaped by aspects of diversity which are subject to power structures and processes of social (in)justice in care networks. In this study, intersectionality was used to both generate complex in-depth insights into the different active layers of carer experiences and focus on within-group differences. Intersectionality was combined with the theoretical concept of epistemic (in)justice to unravel underlying dynamics in collaborative care networks contributing to the understanding that carers with a migration background are often not seen as ‘knowers of reality.’ This qualitative study conducted in the Netherlands between 2019 and 2022 incorporated three informal group conversations (N = 32), semi-structured interviews (N = 21), and three dialogue sessions (N = 7) with carers caring for someone with an ABI. A critical friend and a community of practice, with carers, professionals, and care recipients (N = 8), contributed to the analysis. Three interrelated themes were identified as constituting different layers of the carer experience: (a) I need to keep going, focusing on carers' personal experiences and how experiences were related to carers social positioning; (b) the struggle of caring together, showing how expectations of family members towards carers added to carer burden; and (c) trust is a balancing act, centering on how support from professionals shaped carers' experiences, in which trusting professionals' support proved challenging for carers, and how this trust was influenced by contextual factors at organizational and policy levels. Overall, the need for diversity-responsive policies within care organizations is apparent. Carers with a migration background need to feel heard so they can meaningfully tailor care to meet recipients' needs.
Neighbours have been found to influence each other’s behaviour (contagion effect). However, little is known about the influence on sport club membership. This while increasing interest has risen for the social role of sport clubs. Sport clubs could bring people from different backgrounds together. A mixed composition is a key element in this social role. Individual characteristics are strong predictors of sport club membership. Western high educated men are more likely to be members. In contrast to people with a nonWestern migration background. The neighbourhood is a more fixed meeting place, which provides unique opportunities for people from different backgrounds to interact. This study aims to gain more insight into the influence of neighbours on sport club membership. This research looks especially at the composition of neighbour’s migration background, since they tend to be more or less likely to be members and therefore could encourage of inhibit each other. A population database including the only registry data of all Dutch inhabitants was merged with data of 11 sport unions. The results show a cross-level effect of neighbours on sport club membership. We find a contagion effect of neighbours’ migration background; having a larger proportion of neighbours with a migration background from a non-Western country reduces the odds, as expected. However, this contagion effect was not found for people with a Moroccan or Turkish background.
Binnen de fysiotherapie in Suriname wordt nog weinig gebruik gemaakt van zorgtechnologie. Zorgtechnologie biedt in laag- en middeninkomen landen, zoals Suriname, tal van kansen om de zorg te verbeteren.
Ontbossing vormt wereldwijd een bedreiging voor het klimaat en biodiversiteit. In tropische landen is ontbossing ook een bedreiging voor lokale gemeenschappen die in het bos leven en afhankelijk zijn van de goederen en diensten die het bos hun levert. De jaarlijkse ontbossing in tropische bosgebieden is weliswaar de afgelopen jaren wat afgenomen maar in het (Braziliaanse) Amazone gebied is de afgelopen 5 jaar de ontbossing juist weer toegenomen. Het doel van dit project is om nieuwe kennis te generen en die toe te passen bij het duurzaam gebruik van het bos in Suriname, hetgeen als voorbeeld kan dienen voor aangrenzende landen die deel uitmaken van het Amazone gebied. Daarnaast zal er onderzocht worden hoe het bosbestuur verbeterd kan worden, en zullen nieuwe methoden ontwikkeld worden om de duurzaamheid van activiteiten in het bos te kunnen monitoren. De doorwerking naar de praktijk gebeurt in nauwe samenwerking met verschillende (private) partijen waarbij concrete verdien-modellen voor het gebruik van goederen en diensten uit het bos ontwikkeld worden. Via een op te zetten Living Lab Duurzaam Bosgebruik worden professionals uitgenodigd om door middel van trainingen, workshops en andere bijeenkomsten de kennis in de beroepspraktijk toe te passen. Het project draagt bij aan de actualisering van het onderwijs door deze nieuwe kennis te gebruiken in de curricula van zowel Surinaamse als Nederlandse beroepsopleidingen op het gebied van duurzaam gebruik van natuurlijke hulpbronnen. Door deze aanpak wordt het handelingsperspectief van zowel lokale gemeenschappen als commerciële bedrijven vergroot zodat zij beter in staat zijn duurzamere verdienmodellen te creëren gebaseerd op het gebruik van producten en diensten uit het Surinaamse bos.