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General Information

• Project title: Well-being of refugees in Europe
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Department of Social Work, Hochschule Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• Country: Germany (De)

Research area

• Call theme: Enhancing well-being for the future
• Keywords:

  refugees; vulnerability; resilience; agency; multidimensional well-being concept

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  We are looking for partners for a comparative study on the well-being of refugees (including asylum-seekers and rejected asylum applicants) in European countries. Drawing on refugees’ own perceptions and understandings of well-being, the study seeks to incorporate diverse interdisciplinary approaches to well-being from social sciences, cultural sciences and humanities.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The project will conceptualize well-being as a multi-dimensional construct that reflects the dynamic interplay between refugees’ vulnerability, resilience and agency under structural conditions of social injustice and inequality. In particular, the project aims to analyse how living conditions (e.g. housing in collective accommodation), legal regulations (regarding residence status and access to work, education, and health care), media discourse and societal climate (political controversies about immigration, anti-refugee prejudice and discrimination among general population) and refugees’ social networks (at local, transregional and transnational levels) influence well-being. Moreover, it will examine how the well-being of refugees develops over time after their arrival in a European host country. The project will apply a mixed-methods design, including qualitative and quantitative methods, participatory and ethnographic approaches as well as methods of network analysis.

Dr. Cordula von Denkowski

• Organisation: Department of Social Work, Hochschule Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• Position: Professor
• E-mail: cordula-von.denkowski@hs-hannover.de