Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung

This paper explores the lived experiences of refugees in Germany during the Covid-19 crisis. The data were derived from the participatory research project EMPOW, in which refugee community partners developed and implemented a study design together...

The article discusses the challenges to professionalism and self-image faced by social work around identifying special protection needs of refugees after their arrival in Germany. These are further examined using empirical data from a pilot project....

Refugee protection is a joint task of the international community. However, the primary role lies with individual states that host refugees, conduct legal procedures, and fund accommodation. This raises a crucial question: how should the...

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...