The best interest of the child – the most convenient excuse?
Having worked with children at risk for the last 20 years, I keep finding the phrase “best interest of the child” not only in legal texts but also in my daily work. This broad term has always been...
Océane Uzureau & Malte Behrendt on the role of volunteers
In this episode, our researchers Malte Behrendt & Océane Uzureau discuss their article -“Inclusion in a state of exclusion – the role of volunteers in the lives of unaccompanied refugee minors...
Interview with Sarah Adeyinka about her research among Nigerian victims of trafficking in Italy
In this episode, Sarah Adeyinka discusses some of her research findings in part of the Italian sample of the project which focuses on Nigerian teenage and adult victims of trafficking.
Interview with Dr. Giacomo Orsini – Post-doc on the ChildMove Project
In this podcast, Giacomo discusses the Libyan data and preliminary findings
Physical Activities…
Some reflections on the role of physical activities in times of a pandemic For most people around the world including us, the past years/months of pandemic translated into a significant contraction...
A reflection on research..
A reflection on research relationships It has been more than a year that I’ve conducted the last interview and the more the fieldwork moves into the past, the more the relationships with my research...
Reflections on…
Reflections on the experience of time during fieldwork with young migrants on the move In the course of my research with unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs), I became aware of the existence...
An airborne ethical dilemma
I vaguely remember that day. I was on my way back to Belgium from Italy after completing a round of follow up interviews and follow up with my study participants. I had a stopover en route to...
“Through the looking glass”
A year “through the looking glass”. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie It has been 13 months since my last business trip. On February 29,...
Becoming a parent abroad
While seven months have already passed since I joined the ChildMove team in Ghent (wow, time flies!!) I have lived in Belgium for over three years now! Since I left Italy for the first time in 2005...