Return policies are a hot topic in the public discussion of asylum. Political parties and citizens on the street have an opinion about it. The views vary widely and range from 'Everyone may live in the Netherlands, the world knows no borders' to 'Let's get all those “fortune seekers” out of the country'. However, everyone agrees that the return policy needs to be better. It is well known that the effectiveness of return policies largely depends on the asylum seekers themselves and their willingness to cooperate.

Het aantal alleenstaande minderjarige vreemdelingen (amv) dat in Nederland asiel aanvraagt, is de afgelopen jaren sterk gestegen. Een deel van hen krijgt geen asiel. Voor hen moet ‘adequate opvang’ in het land van herkomst worden gevonden. Hoe werkt dit precies?

Adapting and validating diagnostic tools aimed to evaluate the post-traumatic effects of war in low-income countries is essential for assessing needs and planning support programs. This paper will describe the process of cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of The Continuous Traumatic Stress Response (CTSR) Scale for war-affected Ukraine.

The article is devoted to the theoretical analysis of moral damages of children's migration trauma in the context of the exchange of experience based on the materials of international internship. The purpose of the presented article is an analytical review of developments on the problem of trauma of the migration resocialization of children in the context of preserving mental health and children's rights (based on the materials of the scientific internship under the program of postgraduate education in the area of education and humanities, PUCPR, Curitiba, Brazil).

Objective: Refugees show elevated rates of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). However, relatively little is known regarding the psychological mechanisms that underlie the association between exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and CPTSD following exposure to war, persecution and displacement.

Introduction: Moral suffering (MS) is psycho-emotional harm derived from a conflict between one’s circumstances and one’s deeply held moral values. It includes the constructs of moral distress (MD) and moral injury (MI) and is characterized by constraints or mandates preventing the perceived morally correct event. Evidence has demonstrated the application of MS in helping professions, and research has linked MS to a deterioration of mental health, self-identity, worldview, and job-performance.

Leent de geschiedenis van de Tweede wereldoorlog en de Holocaust zich nog als moreel ijkpunt voor de samenleving? Krijn Thijs neemt stelling in een groeiende discussie. 

Wim Manuhutu biedt een handzaam overzicht van de geschiedenis van de Molukkers in Nederland. Politieke onvrijheid en Nederlands onbegrip daarover bijkt hierin een terugkerend thema. 

Waarom was er lang zo weinig maatschappelijke interesse voor Sobibor? Martijn Lak beantwoordt de vraag aan de hand van een aantal recente boeken over het vernietgingskamp. 

Het creëren van een gemeenschappelijk verhaal is een terugkerend theam in de geschiedenis van de Europese eenwording. Vrijheid speelt hierin een cruciale rol. Maar vrijheid voor wie? Een analyse.