News and Publications
Find our publications and results of the project. Here you can read about news, scientific publications, policy recommendations, manuals, and reports.
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Research article: how COVID-19 school closures affected teachers’ care for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
Teachers play a critical role in providing psychosocial support for newly arrived migrant and refugee learners. Such care ordinarily takes place in the classroom, raising questions about the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 school closures on teachers’ care work. In this article, RWS researchers draw on qualitative interviews with teachers in Danish preparatory classes to […]
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Research article: on the role of time and space in migrant and refugee adolescents’ caring practices in Danish schools
Given that schools are promising spaces for supporting newcomer refugee and migrant learners psychosocially, the Danish RWS team was curious to understand what role young newcomers themselves play in relation to each other’s well-being. Drawing on an ethnographic approach, this article shows how refugee and immigrant adolescents in two preparatory classes in Denmark develop their […]
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Research article: Teachers’ caring practices for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
In this article, researchers from the Danish RWS team examines qualitatively how teachers of preparatory classes in Danish public schools approach and respond to the care needs of newcomer migrant and refugee learners. We show how teachers care for newcomers and how their care responses are both determined bythe external support available and teachers’ individual […]
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PhD of Anne Sofie Børsch “Care in classrooms for newcomers”
On September 16th 2022, Anne Sofie Børsch has successfully defended her PhD, entitled “Care in classrooms for newcomers: a comparative ethnographic case study of social practices to support learners’ well-being in two classrooms for newly arrived refugee and immigrant adolescents in Denmark“. Anne Sofie’s PhD thesis examines the role of schools in supporting the psychosocial well-being […]
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PhD of Emma Soye “Difference and encounter”
Recently, Emma Soye successfully defended her PhD at the University of Sussex, guided by her promotor Prof. dr. Charles Watters. Her PhD, entitled “Difference and encounter: Psychosocial support and secondary education for young migrants and refugees in the UK“, draws on the work Emma did within RefugeesWellSchool, but also critically looks at ‘integrationist’ framework RWS […]
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National publication in professional-oriented journal Welwijs, on the intersection of education and well-being
The Belgian team is proud to announce a national publication in the professional-oriented, Belgian journal Welwijs. As a journal, Welwijs aims to support bridges between the fields of education and mental health care. As our RWS project is located at this particular intersection of education, well-being and mental health, Welwijs’ editors invited the Belgian team […]
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Research results from the Swedish team
The RWS consortium is proud to present results from the Swedish team! In the first article, we focus on describing the trial in Sweden, aiming to investigate an intervention comprising two programmes: Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) and In-service Teacher Training (INSETT), delivered in a school setting, among refugee youth. Do you want to know more? Read […]
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Resources: RWS webinar and online workshop presentations
On 21 March 2022, RefugeesWellSchool hosted an all-day conference and workshop to discuss the RWS study findings and provide practical information on the various psycho-social interventions carried out. Here you find some of the presentations that RWS researchers gave during the webinar and online workshops. These presentations offer some resources to understand the nature and […]
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Research article: The effectiveness of INSETT and PIER among Finnish-born and migrant adolescents in Finland
The RWS consortium is proud to present some of the first results published about the effectiveness of some our interventions. RWS researchers worked dedicatedly to understand the impact of the INSETT and PIER psychosocial preventive interventions on the mental health of native, refugee and migrant students. In this article, we focus on effectiveness specifically in […]
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Research article: Migrant students’ sense of school belonging and the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic has interrupted many of the RWS interventions as implementation was ongoing when schools closed in order to contain the spread of COVID-19. While school closures posed many challenges for continuing with the interventions in schools, it also alerted us that there were now equally important other questions to seek responses to considering migrant […]
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Scientific publications – Full list
Throughout the project, RWS researchers have published their scientific work in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and books. The publications address the topics of migrant and refugee adolescents’ mental health, the role of teachers and schools in supporting wellbeing, the impact of COVID-19, and research methodological questions of the RWS study. See the full list of […]
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Research article: Social determinants of the mental health of young migrants
One of the aim of RWS is to have a nuanced picture on migrant adolescents’ mental health, focusing on what role social factors have in shaping wellbeing in adolescence. In this article RWS researchers studied three adolescent groups: newcomer migrants, non-newcomer migrants and non-migrants. We found that these groups have different mental health profile.* Want […]