Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung

When interview participants talk about ›culture‹, researchers are faced with a dilemma: On the one hand, migration research convincingly points to the danger that using the term ›culture‹ could lead to essentialising attributions. On the...

This paper examines how membership to the society is negotiated in German and Canadian local newspapers. Theoretically drawing on the approach of citizenship as claims-making and methodically drawing on political claims analysis, we interpret...

Participatory research endeavours to relinquish decision-making authority, actively contributing to societal transformation. In the realm of refugee and migration research, this approach necessitates a critical examination of racism to address the...

In March 2022, the EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive for the very first time. It thereby led to a comprehensive privileging of Ukrainian refugees over other refugees in Germany in terms of their migration status as well as social law....

Previous research on refugees and camps points to numerous situations characterised by a lack of security and uncertainty for refugees, both in refugee camps and large-scale reception centres. Much less is known, however, about refugees’...

Research on refugee migration to rural areas in Europe points to the importance of local framework conditions for the integration processes of those seeking protection. In this article, the current state of research is expanded to include findings...

The purpose of this article is to present approaches that can help reducing the gaps between research and practice in the field of refugee integration. We provide examples of research-practice transfer activities that we hope will be taken up by...

Research on the situation of refugees in Germany during pregnancy, maternity leave and during labor has mainly taken a medical perspective; holistic approaches from social sciences’ perspectives are lacking. Our explorative qualitative content...

In June 2023, Nomos-Verlag published the first German-language handbook on forced migration and refugee studies, edited by Tabea Scharrer, Birgit Glorius, J. Olaf Kleist and Marcel Berlinghoff. In more than 100 conceptual chapters, important topics...

The increased arrival of refugees from Ukraine in 2022 has once again put the German reception system to the test. The group of Ukrainian refugees who have been fleeing their homeland since the beginning of the year receives benefits in Germany by...

This article examines the social relationships of refugee children in regular classes with their teachers and classmates in lower secondary education. Regarding these aspects, refugee students are compared to German-born students on the one hand and...

Accompanying refugees to the authorities is one of the most frequently practised forms of civil society support for refugees. Nevertheless, there is no research available so far that systematically examines its functions and effects. Based on two...

Gender-specific research on the labour market participation of refugees takes a critical look at the construction of refugee women as a special problem group in the labour market. While this research also identifies experiences of exclusion and...

The paper examines the experiences of 16 young refugees from Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Morocco, Afghanistan and Syria with different police in Germany. Based on interviews and participant observation with 29 people, including social workers and...

This paper explores newly arrived students’ perspectives on teaching-learning processes in mathematics lessons in international preparatory classes. The study utilized guideline-based interviews as the primary data collection method with 13...

Looking at the special constellation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this article asks how Glaubhaftigkeit (credibility in relation to an account) and Glaubwürdigkeit (credibility in relation to a person) are established and negotiated in...

This article questions the imagined neutrality of Country of Origin Reports from the perspective of queer forced migration. On the basis of queerfeminist and postcolonial theories, it takes steps towards deconstructing this objectivity. To this end,...

The international order is based on the fundamental belief that nation-states can control access to their territories. Asylum law puts this logic into perspective by guaranteeing fair procedures to those seeking protection and, if accepted, basic...

In the field of refugee law, ‹discretion› reasoning – that is, the assumption that asylum seekers can be returned to their countries of origin on the basis that they can avoid persecution by behaving ‹discreetly› and thus escaping the...