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Rethink the role and responsibility of academia in contributing to the societal inclusion of refugees

The aim of this project is to gather transformative narratives that help us to identify normalized sources of exclusion, as well as to discover turning points, or conditions, which enable inclusion and support a shift from silence towards action.

Transformative narratives serve as catalysts for sustained and critical reflections among stakeholders regarding normalized images and exclusionary practices affecting refugees in organizations, in policy, and in society.

news 06 November 2023

The Fruit Basket (TFB) Nominated for Thami Dish Foundation Feather Award

We are thrilled to announce that The Fruit Basket (TFB) has been nominated for the South African award Thami Dish Foundation Feather Award for Role Model of the Year. TFB is an organization founded and headed by activist Thomars Shamuyarira , a forced migrant, transgender man from Zimbabwe, who is currently a research collaborator to...

news 05 October 2023

Newsletter - September 2023

With our research project ‘Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change’, we are committed to building a community of people who dedicate their academic, professional and/or personal lives to engaged scholarship. To keep you up-to-date about the latest developments within the project, we have started this series of newsletters.

event 14 July 2023

Alaaddin Ammar (they/them)

Alaaddin fled to the Netherlands from Syria in 2015. In Syria, they obtained diplomas in psychology and communication and worked on creative practices with refugees in the Syrian Red Cross in 2014/2015, for which they received multiple trainings.