Scientific research from within and beyond academia continues to provide the justification and the knowledge for policy developments directed toward migration and integration governance. A proliferation of scholarship aims to study, pilot, and investigate the ‘best practices’ for facilitating integration, …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the long-term functioning of patients who survived a COVID-19-related admission to the intensive care unit and their family members, in the physical, social, mental and spiritual domain. DESIGN: A single-centre, prospective cohort study with a mixed-methods design. SETTING: The …

Welchen Einfluss hat die Freizeit auf die Occupational Identity von freiwillig eingewanderten Menschen in Deutschland?

Dit artikel is een reflectie op twee artikelen die ook bijgevoegd zijn: - ’Gods liefde ontvangen, beantwoorden, doorgeven’ De Stadskerk in Groningen, door Arjan Zantingh - Communities in de Stadskerk Groningen, door Hans Riphagen, Elisa Lingeman en Martijn van Geilswijk De Stadskerk in Groningen is …

PURPOSE: The COVID-19 pandemic caused rapid implementation and upscaling of video consulting. This study examined the perceived quality of care delivered through video consulting at a geriatric outpatient clinic, and how this related to adoption issues and barriers early adopting professionals found …

The intellectual endeavour taken in this article is to be critically reflexive of the term 'integration' and its use in society, recognizing the power of discourse and the fact that words, and their use, have con­sequences. It is a term which is presented as an end goal for select groups, a potential …

Een kerkelijke gemeente in een Haagse aandachtswijk legt zich niet neer bij reorganisatie en sluiting, maar gaat als huisgemeente door, in een blijvende betrokkenheid op het stadsdeel Laak. Na het praktijkverhaal door Theo Hettema volgt een reflectie-artikel door Nadine van Hierden en Sake Stoppels.

With a lack of a clear definition, though a normalized use, the discursive weight of the concept of integration is felt throughout policy and civic integration programmes. In wider societal discourse the term integration is used in a taken-for-granted way, with an assumed understanding of its meaning …

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 …

Citizens have responded to newcomers in the Netherlands with acts of solidarity and programmes to support integration, often in response to increasingly restrictive government policies. In a previously published study by the primary author, a critical discourse analysis was conducted of texts used in …