The border crises loop

The border crises loop

by | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog post

The border crises loop: reflections on the pointless cruelty of the EU migration governance While news on the pandemic monopolizes media and political attention, another humanitarian emergency is unfolding at the external frontier of the EU. Since the end of 2019, the...
My team

My team

by | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog post

Unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents have been my main field of research for the past 20 years. Always looking from the angle of their psychosocial wellbeing, my focus has slightly shifted over the years from looking at the impact of past trauma to more...
Reflections

Reflections

by | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog post

​It seems so long ago by now, but the first concrete steps of initiating the Childmove project were taken at the end of 2016 when the vacancies were launched for the individual researchers who would form the research team. We knew from the very beginning that the data...
Facts and nuances

Facts and nuances

by | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog post

Facts and nuances of sensitive issues I graduated and started working in the summer of 2015. It wasn’t difficult to find a job during that time, as psychologists were in high demand. Same as in other cities throughout Europe, the reception structures in Berlin were...
Field work in Italy

Field work in Italy

by | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog post

Field work in Italy- preparation & first events I remember what it was like preparing to go on the field for the first time. People may give you advice and mention a few things to look out for, but nothing really prepares you for being on the field for the very...
“Hope”

“Hope”

by | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog post

It was the beginning of Mujahedeen’s war in Afghanistan. My father could see that things were getting out of control, a disaster, chaos was on the way, so he decided to take the family to Iran as it was the only possible way to save the family. We grew up as refugees...