Een nieuw bestaan opbouwen in Nederland, is een terugkerende thema in gesprekken met (voormalig) vluchtelingen die wij hebben gevoerd in het kader van onderzoek naar studeren en werken in Nederland. In de gesprekken over deze nieuwe start klonk vaak optimisme, dankbaarheid en volharding door. Dat laatste …

Binding is een cruciale factor voor studentsucces. Het gevoel van verbondenheid met de opleiding en medestudenten ontstaat echter niet vanzelf. Wat maakt dat een student zich verbonden voelt met de opleiding? Deze vraag gaf onderzoeker Claudia Gomes aanzet om in te zoomen op dit thema, bracht haar in …

This thesis investigates the interplay between displacement and marriage practices among Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan. Processes of national identification, belonging, and citizenship rights impact marriage practices, and do so differently depending on the particular displacement history …

Introduction International placements challenge students to find the right level of participation, as local practices, language and time pressure may affect their engagement in patient-related tasks or team activities. This study sought to unpack the initiation process during international clinical placements …

Population ageing has been a focus of research since the 1960s (Michael et al. 2006), and it has become a domain of international discussions, debates and research throughout a myriad of disciplines including housing, urban planning and real estate (Buffel and Phillipson 2016, van Bronswijk 2015, Kort …

This thesis is about volunteer motivation and engagement. The research elaborates on the motivation and engagement of volunteers in the project InduS. Nowadays, a world without volunteers cannot be imagined. They get more and more important in every aspect of social life, for example volunteers are …

This research addresses the unsafety issue for transgender asylum seekers in asylum seek centres (Hereafter referred as ASCs), due to violence from other asylum seekers and inadequate support by employees in the ASCs as a result of transphobic attitudes. Literature shows a lack of insights of views, …

We analyze how ‘original’ residents in different gentrifying working class areas in Amsterdam North experience and evaluate the changes in their neighborhood in terms of social cohesion – in other words, whether they feel at home in their changing neighborhood and whether they feel connected to other …

The year 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Turkish migrants settling in the Netherlands. A significant number of Turks, approximately 400,000, currently live in the Netherlands; many are born there, and know Turkey only from visiting it on holiday. Integration has been successful for the majority …

Het HvA-programma ‘Flexibel, studeerbaar en robuust onderwijs’ streeft naar flexibel onderwijs in een studeerbaar en robuust curriculum in 2020 in alle opleidingen. De veronderstelling is dat door flexibiliteit de onderwijskwaliteit verbetert, want het onderwijs sluit beter aan bij de behoeften, kennis …