A cosmopolitan explanation of the integration paradox: a mixed methods approach

Recent studies conclude that higher-educated migrants experience less belonging to the residence country than lower-educated migrants, which has been dubbed the integration paradox. World citizenship is a possible explanation yet has been left untheorized and empirically untested. We are the first to theorize and test this mechanism for Turkish migrants in the Netherlands using a mixed-methods approach. Results based on the NIS2NL survey confirm that world citizenship is an explanation of this paradox when acknowledging its interplay with belonging to the origin country. World citizenship is associated with a lower sense of belonging to the Netherlands, albeit only when migrants feel a low sense of belonging to Turkey. These findings are underlined by in-depth interviews with purposively sampled highly-skilled Turkish migrants (N = 32). Moreover, two proposed narrative strategies are vital to understand the negative association between world citizenship and national belonging. World citizenship is thus key in understanding the integration paradox

Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post Corona future

The covid-19 global syndemic has upended societies worldwide and concomitantly united the world in a shared experience of lockdowns, social distancing, and economic upheaval. In the face of great uncertainty, dystopian realities, and binding government edicts, people's everyday lives, sense of agency, actions, and interactions changed forcibly. Importantly, it has disrupted many practices and routines essential for (re)constituting a sense of belonging, an important element of personhood and individual wellbeing. Using the “Letters from the Future” method, we investigate how individuals imagine and present themselves in the future to navigate thissocial change. We ask “How do letter writers construct a sense of belonging in a future of their own imagining?” To answer this question, we combine discourse- and text analysis with network analysis to examine 47 letters that Greek participants wrote during the Spring 2020 lockdown. We explore how individuals present and introduce their future self, what topos this self inhabits and what expressions, values, and practices they perform and negotiate as they reflect on and navigate their relational worlds. By and large, Greek letter writers recognize that inequities and injustices paved the way for the syndemic and express a pressing need for societal transformation

La persistencia de la imagen de la maternidad en la representación política mexicana

Fil: Davids, Tine

Narrative Matters

Narrative Matters is a bi-annual conference on the study of narrative, which brings together scholars from different disciplines

Life-stories and storied (intercultural) encounters in higher art education. On found, told and induced narratives.

The presentation addresses the tension between (participative) observation and intervention; the accounts of encounters and participants' life-stories not only give insight into the process of intercultural awareness, but partly also set in motion this process as such; the research may induce some of the stories it is after

The Gender question in globalization : changing perspectives and practices/ Edit.: Tine Davids

xii, 234 hal.; 21 cm

Professionalization, sexualization: when global meets local in the working identities of secretaries in Lima, Peru

This chapter explores a group of working women in Latin America who are rarely present in gender studies on development, work or identity. It describes secretaries and, more specifically, secretaries working in public administration. The chapter presents a description of the workings of the bureaucracy. There are certain idiosyncratic features associated with working at a Peruvian ministry. The new department heads will bring their ‘own’ staff or secretaries. Women with job tenure enjoy other secondary benefits, such as uniforms, optional free lunches or the equivalent in money or paid holiday. Bureaucracies are also renowned for the high degree of paper pushing from one desk to another and back again. The quest for professionalization is not one being fought on all fronts or by the majority of secretaries, but it is occurring in the name of them all. The discourse of global organizational change brings with it a new work ethic

The Gender question in globalization : changing perspectives and practices/ Edit.: Tine Davids

xii, 234 hal.; 21 cm

Covid-19 and the Politics of Hope: A Comparative Analysis of Greek and Ecuadorian Letters from a Desired Post-Pandemic Future

Covid-19 forced changes in everyday life upon large sections of the world’s population, with lockdowns and social distancing measures effecting conditions of work and leisure for billions of people. In this context our research created a space in which people living in countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa were invited to imagine what the future could look like – beyond the pandemic – by writing a Letter from the Future. In this paper we examine what these letters show about one particular relationship between the present and the future: a relationship of hope. In the context of major crises, and the complex experiences of loss they involve, the nature of and possibilities for hope becomes an urgent issue. We analyse a selection of responses from participants between 18 and 35 years-old, from Ecuador and Greece, to address two questions: (1) Do these letters express hope? (2) If so, in what ways is this hope political? Our answers to these questions have implications for understanding the nature, possibilities and politics of hope at times of crisis. They also have implications for futures studies: indicating the potential value of embedding the Letters from the Future method in a range of research contexts

A cosmopolitan explanation of the integration paradox: a mixed methods approach

Recent studies conclude that higher-educated migrants experience less belonging to the residence country than lower-educated migrants, which has been dubbed the integration paradox. World citizenship is a possible explanation yet has been left untheorized and empirically untested. We are the first to theorize and test this mechanism for Turkish migrants in the Netherlands using a mixed-methods approach. Results based on the NIS2NL survey confirm that world citizenship is an explanation of this paradox when acknowledging its interplay with belonging to the origin country. World citizenship is associated with a lower sense of belonging to the Netherlands, albeit only when migrants feel a low sense of belonging to Turkey. These findings are underlined by in-depth interviews with purposively sampled highly-skilled Turkish migrants (N = 32). Moreover, two proposed narrative strategies are vital to understand the negative association between world citizenship and national belonging. World citizenship is thus key in understanding the integration paradox