Refugees and Integration
Final Report on the Project Empowering Refugee Children in Rangsdorf
Starting in August 2022, Social Science Works conducted a project with children in Rangsdorf who live with their parents in the two refugee homes located in the community. These are often children who have not...
Wild and Infectious: The Stigmatization of Refugee Children in Greece
“They never lived like children do—I don’t know how to put it into words—but like wild humans” (Zsófia 2018: 392). With this statement, a Greek father voiced a concern held by many parents about the...
Sex trafficking of Nigerian women: how the Italian asylum system deals with victims
In August 2018, I spent one month volunteering at Centro Donna Giustizia (CDG) an organisation that works to end gender violence in Ferrara, Italy. The CDG hosts a number of projects and services including a...
Giving a face to refugees: A story from Thessaloniki
According to European Commission statistics, more than two million people risked their lives since 2015 to reach Europe in search of safety from poverty and war. Most of the refugees came from different parts of...
Muslim women in Germany: A look at gender inequality and integration
Gender equality has become a touchstone to determine the extent of Islam’s acceptance in Western societies, where many are already convinced that Islam and gender equality are irreconcilable. But regarding this perceived tension between freedom...
A Deliberative Workshop with Chechen
Since 2016 Social Science Works has implemented more than forty rows of workshops with refugees and natives in which we discuss, among others, ethical and political pluralism, democracy, civic society, freedom (of expression, association and...
New Neighbors – Here, But Not Yet At Home
The article here was published in German in Die Linke’s Lotta magazine: issue 12, January 10, 2017 and is available here. The original article was written by Sophie Freikamp and was translated by Sarah Coughlan. What is...