http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/17983 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:46:29 GMT 2026-06-16T13:46:29Z http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/25245 Title: Master Thesis : Newly arrived young migrants in vocational preparation classes : a qualitive study of experiences of disadvantage in Hamburg's AvM-Dual classes Abstract: This thesis examines the experiences of disadvantage of newly arrived young migrants in Hamburg's Vocational Preparation Classes for Migrants (AvM-Dual). Drawing on 13 qualitative, semi-structured interviews and a theoretical framework of institutional discrimination, the study addresses two research questions: what disadvantages and structural challenges do young people in AvM classes perceive, and how do they interpret and evaluate these experiences, including to what extent they identify them as discrimination? The findings show that AvM classes function as an institutionally structured transitional space that channels educational pathways through school assignment logics, limited permeability, information asymmetries, a strong vocational training orientation, and the formal equal treatment of heterogeneous learning prerequisites. At the interactional level, low teacher expectations further undermine students' educational aspirations. These mechanisms are consistent with the logic of institutional discrimination: they are not rooted in individual intentions but in organizational routines and structural conditions that systematically disadvantage newly arrived young migrants. With regard to the interpretation of these experiences, the study shows that disadvantage is not necessarily named as discrimination — not due to a lack of awareness, but because narrow conceptual understandings, internalized performance norms, and the absence of comparative standards structurally impede recognition. The separation structure of AvM classes itself contributes to this invisibility. Mon, 25 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/25245 2026-05-25T22:00:00Z 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