http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/17983 Fri, 08 May 2026 22:16:22 GMT 2026-05-08T22:16:22Z http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/25094 Title: Master Thesis : Holding Spaces for Artistic Expression - Participatory Art-Based Research with Mobile Youth in the Asylum Apparatus. Abstract: Research with adolescents living within the asylum apparatus raises important epistemological and ethical questions concerning whose forms of expression are recognised as legitimate and how knowledge about lived experiences is produced. In response to these concerns, art-based and participatory methodologies have gained attention for their potential to engage with experience beyond verbal articulation, foregrounding relational, sensory, and embodied modes of meaning-making. This thesis examines the ways in which participatory art-based projects can create spaces in which mobile youth express and make sense of their lived experiences. Participatory art projects are approached as situated and relational practices whose effects must be examined empirically rather than assumed in advance. Attention is given to diverse forms of engagement, including silence, selective participation, refusal, and presence, which extend beyond artistic outputs or coherent narratives. Empirically, the study draws on participatory art-based ateliers conducted with unaccompanied adolescents living in an asylum reception center in Belgium. The findings highlight both the possibilities and limits of participatory art-based research in institutional contexts and contribute to debates on art-based methodology, child-centered research, and ethical approaches to knowledge production in contexts of mobility. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/25094 2026-01-18T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/24347 Title: Master thesis : "Procedural Invisibility: How Italy's Administrative and Judicial Systems Fail Stateless Individuals" Abstract: This thesis examines the extent to which Italy’s administrative and judicial procedures undermine the recognition of stateless individuals and obstruct their access to essential services, despite the country’s binding obligations under the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. It addresses the central paradox of Italy’s statelessness regime: the coexistence of formal treaty ratification with systemic non-implementation. Through a dual-lens methodology combining critical discourse analysis of legal and administrative texts with policy process tracing of reform efforts, the study demonstrates how symbolic ratification, bureaucratic neutralisation of rights, and judicial complicity interact to produce procedural invisibility. The empirical analysis draws on ministerial circulars, judicial decisions, FOIA-obtained policy documents, and NGO field reports, with a particular focus on Roma communities as a diagnostic population. The findings reveal that Italy’s procedural framework functions as a calibrated system of exclusion, in which interlocking administrative and judicial barriers perpetuate statelessness and restrict access to fundamental rights. Administrative requirements such as proof of lawful residence, consular attestations, and digital authentication operate as near-insurmountable evidentiary hurdles, while judicial remedies are undermined by prohibitive costs, inconsistent jurisprudence, and detention practices that violate international and EU law. Roma communities experience this regime with particular severity through spatial segregation, generational statelessness, and targeted policy sabotage, illustrating how exclusion is manufactured rather than incidental. Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/24347 2025-08-31T22:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/24341 Title: Master thesis : "Negotiating Deservingness and Solidarity - A Comparative Analysis of Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees in the German Newspaper Die Zeit" Abstract: How does the discourse on deservingness in the context of migration reflect processes of racialised othering and influence selective solidarity towards displaced people in Germany? To address this question concretely and well structured, it is divided into three sub-questions. First, how does the discourse in German print media frame Syrian and Ukrainian refugees as (un)deserving? Second, how do these frames evolve over time? Third, how does the framing of Syrian and Ukrainian refugees compare to each other, and how do these discourses express selective forms of solidarity? Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/24341 2025-08-31T22:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/24186 Title: Master thesis : "An exploration of Brazilian women's experiences of transnational caregiving in Ireland: types of care, strategies and changing roles" Abstract: In an era of increasing global mobility, families are more often than ever, stretched across borders, challenging conventional ideas of what constitutes a family and the relations and actions that underpin this concept. This qualitative research investigates transnational caregiving, one of the central practices and performances that underpins transnational family life (Baldassar & Merla, 2014). This is undertaken through an exploration of the transnational caregiving experiences of Brazilian women living in Ireland, an under researched migrant community. It focuses on the types of care provided, strategies used to provide care in light of physical absence and the ways in which transnational caregiving can shape and change individuals’ roles and relationships within the family unit. Key dimensions explored include the role of gender dynamics, emotion, and other mediating factors at a micro, meso and macro level. Notable findings include the use of silence as an emotional transnational care practice and the role of emotions in negotiating caregiving practices and obligations. To this end, this research contributes to studies of transnational familyhood and caregiving, adding empirical evidence to existing theoretical models and indicates avenues for future research. Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/24186 2025-08-31T22:00:00Z