As European countries experience growing immigration, the need for policies supporting immigrants’ cultural adaptation has intensified. Journalism plays a crucial role in this process, traditionally fostering a shared understanding among citizens and offering a common reference point to understand societal issues. However, little research addresses how immigrants navigate today’s digital news landscape, where the boundaries between countries are increasingly blurred. This study fills this gap by examining the news consumption of 30 immigrants in the Netherlands, including refugees, knowledge immigrants, and family immigrants.
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How societies respond to the challenges of human migration is one of the most morally defining and socioeconomically consequential policy decisions of our time. As anti-immigrant parties across the Global North seek to capitalize on public concerns about immigrant inclusion and border control, immigration has turned into a deepening social and political cleavage. Meanwhile, the greatest immigration challenges are faced in the Global South. The vast majority of refugees who are forcibly displaced by war, political violence, poverty and environmental disasters seek refuge in neighbouring regions where many states lack the capacity to adequately support them. Given these challenges it is imperative for occupational therapists and scientists to work collaboratively to support equitable occupational possibilities for immigrants, refugees and internally displaced persons.
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As societal discussions around housing and immigration continue to heat up in the Netherlands, internationalisation has found itself caught in the crossfire. Against a backdrop of changing policies and public sentiment, Simone Hackett of The Hague University of Applied Sciences invited one domestic student and one international student to add their voices to the debate.
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Whilst until the late 1980s most migration issues developed in a parallel manner but with national specifics, important differences showed up during the 1990s and at the beginning of this decade. Since the middle of the 1990s, there has been an obvious change in policy towards migrants and foreigners in the Netherlands, and those changes have been more or less “exported” to our neighbouring countries and even to the level of the EU. Integration into society with the maintenance of the immigrant’s own culture has been replaced by integration into the Dutch society after passing an integration examination. The focus of this article is to investigate those changes and to compare the implementation of those policies in the Netherlands/Limburg and Germany/NRW, where the official understanding of not being an immigration country was dominant until the end of the 1990s, and where integration has only recently become an important political issue. Both countries are now facing similar challenges for better integration into the society, especially into the educational system. Firstly, the autors describe migration definitions, types, the numbers of migrants and the backgrounds of migrant policies in Germany and the Netherlands up until the middle of the 1990s. Secondly they discuss the integration policies thereafter: the pathway to a new policy and the Action Plan Integration in Germany, and the central ideas of the Civic Integration of Newcomers Act (WIN) in the Netherlands. Integration policy in the Netherlands is highly centralised with little differentiation on the local governmental level when compared to South Limburg. Thirdly, the autors investigate the cross-border cooperation between professional organisations and educational institutions in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, and the involvement of social work institutions and social workers in their process of integration into the local society and the exchange of each others’ experiences (the ECSW and RECES projects).
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Education plays a major role in this paradox: the cultural diversity that is increased by immigration is eliminated by successful education: education aims to maximise the opportunities for every child within the emerging global culture and thus reduce cultural diversity. The road from the Enlightenment that would bring us a better world is increasingly proving to be a dead end, especially with regard to the climate and the depletion of the resources the planet can provide (ecology). Just now that a global culture has emerged into which all those other cultures are assimilated, the question is whether cultures that deal more sustainably with ecology and have problems accommodating to global culture, should not be given more voice in the transition to a more sustainable global culture. It is argued that in popular music forms an example in which successful productions have a multitude of cultural styles, from world music to hip-hop to rock. In fact, almost everyone from various cultural backgrounds can relate to a certain style. Pop music therefore does not necessarily work as an institution that reduces diversity. Education does just that, unconsciously, and often with extensive inclusion programs. She could learn from pop music!
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Global issues, including the current pandemic and ongoing climate change, shape voluntary and forced international migration flows in inequitable ways. Anti-immigrant discourses in the Global North seek to capitalize on public concerns about border control. Meanwhile, the greatest immigration challenges are borne by countries in the Global South. The majority of refugees who are forcibly displaced by war, political violence, poverty, and environmental disasters seek refuge in neighbouring regions where many states lack the capacity to adequately support them. Given these challenges, it is imperative for occupational scientists to work collaboratively to support equitable occupational possibilities for immigrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons. During this dialogic session we will 1) outline useful theoretical approaches for understanding how migration shapes engagement in occupations; 2) discuss specific ethical considerations and methods for studying migration and its occupational implications; and 3) share promising practices for working with people from migration backgrounds. Each topic will be introduced through a brief presentation from one of the co-authors sharing vignettes from their own research and professional experiences to ignite discussions. Following each of the three presentations, participants will be grouped strategically to build networks among those with similar interests. This may include grouping participants who share a language.>What are the gaps in occupation-based research on global migration, and how can these be collaboratively addressed?>How can occupational science contribute to discussions within migration studies?>What occupational concepts are most useful for studying different migrant populations?
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The position of non-EU migrants in social security is problematic. Many European states reduce access to social benefits for categories of migrants whose presence is not desired. At the same time the scope of application of the national systems is becoming more confined to the national borders, as, for example, countries take measures to reduce the exportability of benefits. These two trends of exclusion and retrenchment particularly affect irregular immigrants and persons moving between Europe and developing countries who are not protected by any bilateral social security agreements. The background of these trends can be traced back to the way social security interacts with immigration and civic integration policies. This book addresses this interaction and contains contributions on the social security position of irregular migrants, on the reception of asylum seekers, on income requirements in immigration law, on civic integration, on informal social security protection of formally excluded migrants and on social protection and voluntary return. These separate contributions lead to an overall analysis on the position of excluded migrants. Knowing that the exclusion of certain immigrants from social security is legitimate from the point of view of national policies or even from the point of view of the logics of social security itself, what alternative strategies can be developed in order to give protection to excluded migrants without undermining these policies and logics?
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This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the acceptance of a digital personal assistant, called Anne4Care, by older adult immigrants living with dementia in their own homes.
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Dit artikel bevat de resultaten van een onderzoek naar burgerschap en inburgering in relatie tot inburgeringspraktijken in drie landen. De inburgeringspraktijken, zoals inburgeringscursussen, toetsen en trainingen, van de landen Nederland, Frankrijk en Canada worden vergeleken om na te gaan wat deze landen onder inburgering en burgerschap verstaan. Inburgering en burgerschap zijn begrippen die eenvoudig en helder lijken, maar dit niet zijn. In het dagelijks leven, in literatuur en beleidsteksten worden de begrippen op verschillende manieren gedefinieerd en geoperationaliseerd. Door de verschillende Nederlandse, Franse en Canadese contexten te bekijken en deze met elkaar te vergelijken, wordt duidelijk wat bepalende en kenmerkende factoren zijn voor burgerschap en het inburgeringsproces. Deze factoren leiden naar twee modellen van inburgering, die zijn voortgekomen uit de analyse van de contexten van de drie landen. Na deze inleiding volgen de methodische achtergronden van mijn onderzoek. Vervolgens wordt kort ingaan op de begrippen die van belang zijn voor dit thema, namelijk de verschillende aspecten van burgerschap. Daarna volgt de uitleg van de twee inburgeringsmodellen. Het volgende deel bestaat uit een verbinding van de twee inburgeringsmodellen en de drie aspecten van burgeridentiteit. Als laatste volgt de discussie.
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Het Amsterdams Experiment rondom de BijstandIn 2017 voldeed de gemeente Amsterdam niet aan alle voorwaarden van het Ministerie van VWS om aan te sluiten bij het landelijke experiment rondom de bijstand ihkv de Participatiewet. Amsterdam besloot haar eigen experiment op te zetten. Amsterdam telt circa 40.000 bijstandsgerechtigden. Ondanks de aantrekkende arbeidsmarkt wordt deze groep niet kleiner. Amsterdam wil onderzoeken of ze haar huidige beleid kan aanpassen in de hoop dat meer bijstandsgerechtigden –duurzaam- de stap naar (deeltijd) werk durven en kunnen zetten. Het Amsterdam Experiment rond de bijstand is in 2018 gestart en wordt onderzocht door de HvA ism de UvA. De algemene onderzoeksvraag is onder welke condities mensen in de bijstand optimaal kunnen participeren. Doel is inzicht krijgen in de effecten van beleid in termen van financiële (betaald werk) en maatschappelijke (onbetaald werk, welbevinden) participatie. Gedurende vier jaar worden 750 deelnemers geïnterviewd, zodat kan worden gekeken of hun situatie verandert. Afgelopen jaar zijn deelnemers geïnterviewd voor een nulmeting. Op basis van deze nulmeting hebben we een indruk van (a) de mate van het financieel en maatschappelijk participeren van de deelnemers bij aanvang van het experiment en (b) hun opvattingen en attitudes ten aanzien van de bijstand en de instituties waar zij mee te maken hebben.Dit artikel behandelt eerst de start en opzet van het experiment. Vervolgens schetsen we met de nulmeting een aantal kenmerken van de groep bijstandsgerechtigden. Om grip te krijgen op de diversiteit van de onderzoeksgroep maken we gebruik van een clustering van ‘typen’ bijstandsgerechtigden.
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