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Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven

Midas Baert, Matthieu Kervyn, Armand Dongmo Kagou, Christian Suh Guedjeo, Liesbet Vranken, Kewan Mertens

Information about resettlement preferences is an important prerequisite for the success of voluntary resettlement as a disaster risk reduction strategy. Yet, even in conditions where individual preferences for resettlement are met, resettlement programs may fail. In this study, we confront individual preferences for resettlement with obstacles to resettlement in order to identify conditions for success and failure of voluntary resettlement. ...

Implementing the Refugee Resettlement Process: Diverging Objectives, Interdependencies and Power Relations Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hanna Elisabeth Schneider
Refugee resettlement is implemented by many different national and international stakeholders who operate in different locations and on the basis of sometimes diverging objectives. The implementation of the resettlement process has thus been characterized as multi-level governance, with resettlement stakeholders coordinating and negotiating the selection of refugees for resettlement. Still, literature on the implementation of refugee ...

Prisoners resettlement in Belgium: also a responsibility of civil society Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Veerle Scheirs
Parole was introduced in Belgium in 1888 and has been transformed profoundly by the end of 20th century. Due to a bifurcation policy and practice, today release procedures for those with a prison sentence of up to three years and more than three years differ profoundly in Belgium. The majority of the prisoners with a prison sentence of up to three years are quasi-automatically released through an administrative decision, after having served one ...

Navigating uncertainties: refugees' perspectives on resettlement Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hanna Elisabeth Schneider
Refugee resettlement aims to provide refugees with a durable solution to live their lives in dignity and safety in a new country. To do so, resettlement is implemented through a complex process that includes many different stakeholders, while the concerned refugees are largely excluded from meaningful participation in the decision-making and implementation process. This exclusion limits refugees’ agency within a system whose fundamental ...

Characterization of premigration and postmigration multidomain factors and psychosocial health among refugee children and adolescents after resettlement in Australia Universiteit Gent

Lan Guo, Li Li, Ke Xu, Wanxin Wang, Yanyan Ni, Wenyan Li, Jianhua Gong, Ciyong Lu, Wei Hong Zhang
IMPORTANCE A better understanding of the psychosocial health of resettled child and adolescent refugees and associated premigration and postmigration factors may help this population integrate effectively. OBJECTIVE To estimate the associations of premigration and postmigration multidomain factors with psychosocial health after resettlement among young refugees of different ages. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study used ...

The Internationalization of the Refugee Problem. Resettlement from the Global South during the 1970s. KU Leuven

Sara Cosemans
This project aims to investigate the role of international organisations in world politics in the 1970s by focusing on cooperation between UNHCR and the multitude of actors who have been involved in resettling refugees from the Global South. The research will be based in a strong primary source-oriented approach that carefully analyses various actors and their discourses, as well as the outcomes of resettlement programmes. Hermeneutic analyses ...

Coping with landslide risk through preventive resettlement. Designing optimal strategies through choice experiments for the Mount Elgon region, Uganda KU Leuven

Pieter Vlaeminck, Miet Maertens, Jean Poesen, Jozef A. Deckers, Liesbet Vranken
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Landslides significantly affect rural income-generating activities in the East African highlands. In addition, the livelihoods of the poorest are most likely to be adversely affected. Traditionally, landslide risk is reduced by means of effective planning and management. In many regions, these measures are insufficient to offer a long-term solution because of high population density and land shortage. We use a choice ...

Intentions, Strategies, and Actions: How Refugees Exert Agency in the Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Process from Jordan and Turkey to Germany Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hanna Elisabeth Schneider

Although refugee resettlement is characterized by opaque decision-making of United Nations and government agencies, refugees may exert agency throughout the resettlement process. Tracing the journeys of several refugees through the resettlement and humanitarian admission processes from Jordan and Turkey to Germany, this article highlights refugees’ intentions, strategies, and actions to access and navigate the process in Jordan and Turkey. ...

Mental health of refugee and non-refugee migrant young people in European secondary education : the role of family separation, daily material stress and perceived discrimination in resettlement Universiteit Gent KU Leuven

Caroline Spaas, An Verelst, Ines Devlieger, Sanni Aalto, Arnfinn J. Andersen, Natalie Durbeej, Per Kristian Hilden, Reeta Kankaanpää, Nina Langer Primdahl, Marianne Opaas, et al.
While scholarly literature indicates that both refugee and non-refugee migrant young people display increased levels of psychosocial vulnerability, studies comparing the mental health of the two groups remain scarce. This study aims to further the existing evidence by examining refugee and non-refugee migrants' mental health, in relation to their migration history and resettlement conditions. The mental health of 883 refugee and 483 non-refugee ...

Impacts of past resettlement programs on deforestation of moist evergreen Afromontane forests in Southwest Ethiopia KU Leuven

Jean Poesen, Anton Van Rompaey
© 2017 Getahun et al. This open access article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Severe land degradation and the consequent series of drought and famine episodes have caused major waves of human migration in Ethiopia over the past 5 decades. The main objective of this study was to assess the impacts of consecutive resettlement programs (spontaneous and planned) on the forests in southwest Ethiopia. The ...