Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung

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...