Michael Fingerle & Rüdiger Wink 
Forced Migration and Resilience [PDF ebook] 
Conceptual Issues and Empirical Results

This volume includes in a unique way theoretical and empirical contributions on the context of forced migration and resilience from the perspective of psychology and social sciences. Contributions range from analyses of individual vulnerability and exposition to investigations of community and policy reactions in host countries.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Refugee children and their vulnerability. A qualitative study.- Supporting escapees and migrants: Understanding the role of resilience resources.- Community resilience Networks for developing successful migration.- Long-term adaptation among naturalized Bosnian refugees in Sweden. Existential preoccupation, spirituality and resilience.- Continuity or change? The impact of the refugee crisis on Swedish political parties’ migration policy preferences.- Forced migration and resilience. Elements of resilience processes in host countries.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Michael Fingerle: Study of Psychology at the University of Mannheim and Ph D in Psychology at the University of Jena. Since December 2004 Professor of Diagnostics and Evaluation at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt, before that research assistant at the Universities of Mann-heim, Leipzig and Halle. Research focus: Prevention research, positive development and recognition relationships






Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wink: Since 2004 Professor of Economics at the HTWK Leipzig, prior to that Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) and scientific assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Leipzig. Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change. Scientific focuses include economic and social resilience research, regional research and economic geography with a focus on institutional research.