Volume 49 (2026), Issue 2

This article analyzes the correlation between social participation and spatial structure in the film Tori et Lokita (2022) by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The film chronicles the endeavors of the two protagonists to secure a permanent residence...

This article uses film psychoanalysis (Hamburger, 2018) to examine the unconscious reception of Tori et Lokita (2023). It distinguishes between three levels of film understanding: the logical understanding of the plot, the psychological...

This article analyses the narrative and legitimising constraints of flight within the context of the European asylum regime, linking cinematic perspectives with those of migration studies and social pedagogogy. Using the 2022 Belgian film Tori and...

The article examines the subjectification theory concept of the resistant subject in the context of refugee migration. It argues that placing strong emphasis on the resistance of subjects is ambivalent First, references to the theoretical figure of...

This article is devoted to a deep hermeneutic analysis of the experiences of Tayo, a 47-year-old refugee who lives in Germany with his family under the uncertain residence status of tolerated stay. It first shows that tolerated stay is experienced...

The article examines how belonging as a family is narrated in relationships of voluntary engagement. Using the analytical perspective of agency, as well as episodic interviews and grounded theory, the relationships narrated as family are...

The article explores the dynamics of sequential trauma among young refugees within the interplay of vulnerability, adaptation, and subjectivation. It examines how educational institutions act as spaces of resonance between functional adjustment and...

This article examines how former elite athletes of the GDR narratively interpret and process their sports past and its biographical consequences. Drawing on 15 narrative interviews (Schütze, 1983) with athletes of different gender identities, ages,...

Since ancient times, people have been taking pictures of themselves and presenting themselves. What began with the imagery of the body in prehistoric times and reached a new qualitative level with the selfie cult has now reached its current climax...