Judith Kohlenberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Kohlenberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohlenberger |
| SIGNATURE | KOHLENBERGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5305-5417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(Im)permanent Settlement: Protracted Displacement and Secondary Movement Experiences of Syrian Refugees from Turkey to Austria
In 2022, Austria experienced a significant surge in Syrian arrivals. Unlike refugees arriving to Europe in 2015/2016, who predominantly embarked on direct journeys from Syria, most of the recently admitted cohort experienced protracted displacement in Turkey. During these prolonged periods in transit, individuals’ fundamental rights and essential economic, social, and psychological needs frequently remained unmet, due to the weak Temporary Protec…
Mental Health of Refugees in Austria and Moderating Effects of Stressors and Resilience Factors
Given the exposure to stressors in their home countries, during migration and after arrival, refugees are vulnerable to mental health problems. Their access to adequate health care and other social infrastructures, however, is hampered. This reduces, in addition to other factors, their ability to take part in social and economic activities. We examine the prevalence of mental disorders among the refugee population that arrived in Austria mainly b…
Navigating a Paradox: Well-Being and Dimensions of (Non-)Belonging of Syrian Refugees in Austria
This article examines the challenges Syrian refugees who arrived in Austria between 2008 and 2021 face in building social capital, where a lack of connectedness to the host community presents a key obstacle to their sense of belonging. The study discusses the complex and nuanced concept of belonging among the surveyed Syrian refugees, highlighting paradoxes such as feeling culturally connected yet socially isolated within Austrian society. By exa…
Managing’ the paradox: Refugee self-reliance and solving the problem of refugee policy discontinuity
The refugee self-reliance agenda is marked by tensions and contradictions, echoing wider incoherence in the international refugee regime. We explore these through the philosophical concept of paradoxes. Paradoxes allow for multiple interests and narratives to be simultaneously ‘true’, leading to refugee policy outcomes that are often incoherent by omission instead of commission. To illustrate this, we draw on recent empirical studies to examine h…
Intermezzo – Was wäre, wenn Europa eine humane Flüchtlingspolitik betreiben würde
The Refugee (Tale) Paradox: Narratives of Vulnerability and Aspirationality
The global refugee regime can be characterized by central paradoxes, similarly to how our societal narratives around displacement and refuge are fundamentally contradictory, yet immanent to the system they help to maintain. Following Hannah Arendt’s notion of the ‘aporia of human rights’, I discuss one particular salient set of contradictions as the ‘refugee paradox’. It describes a set of policy expectations and narratives around the figure of t…
Konsequente Humanisierung
Nuclear family and social capital of refugees in Austria
This article provides insights into the role of the nuclear family for refugees' social capital in Austria, with a focus on gender‐specific differences. We use a multimethod approach, based on quantitative data from a survey with 548 refugees from Syria and Afghanistan and semi‐structured group discussions ( N = 17 informants). In our analysis, we study frequency of contacts in first language and in German, as proxies for the bonding and bridging…
Multi-Layered Roles of Religion among Refugees Arriving in Austria around 2015
Violent conflicts and social unrest in the Middle East, in Central Asia, and in Africa have led to growing numbers of persons seeking refuge in Europe since 2011. The phenomenon culminated in 2015. In that year, with 88,300 new asylum applications, Austria was the 4th largest receiver of asylum seekers in the EU, thereby increasing visibly religious diversity in the country. Using two social surveys carried out in 2015 and in 2017 among asylum se…
A Social Survey on Refugees in and Around Vienna in Fall 2015: Methodological Approach and Field Observations
In late 2015, a survey called DiPAS (Displaced persons in Austria survey) was carried out in and around Vienna to study the socio-demographic characteristics, values and attitudes of asylum seekers arriving in Austria in 2015. In that year, the number of persons seeking refuge in Europe was substantially high, with Austria being the fourth largest receiving country of asylum seekers in Europe. This data collection is the first of its kind in Aust…
A Social Survey on Refugees in and Around Vienna in Fall 2015: Methodological Approach and Field Observations
The New Formula For Cool: Science, Technology, and the Popular in the American Imagination
»Our society has undergone a paradigm shift. In the information age, you and I are the alpha males,« Dr Leonard Hofstadter, experimental physicist and protagonist of the hit sitcom »The Big Bang Theory«, assures himself and his fellow scientists. The success of this and similar formats in American popular culture proves his point: Science has finally discovered the formula for cool. This interdisciplinary study examines how »cool«, a key aestheti…
Nuclear family and social capital of refugees in Austria
This article provides insights into the role of the nuclear family for refugees' social capital in Austria, with a focus on gender‐specific differences. We use a multimethod approach, based on quantitative data from a survey with 548 refugees from Syria and Afghanistan and semi‐structured group discussions ( N = 17 informants). In our analysis, we study frequency of contacts in first language and in German, as proxies for the bonding and bridging…
A Social Survey on Refugees in and Around Vienna in Fall 2015: Methodological Approach and Field Observations
In late 2015, a survey called DiPAS (Displaced persons in Austria survey) was carried out in and around Vienna to study the socio-demographic characteristics, values and attitudes of asylum seekers arriving in Austria in 2015. In that year, the number of persons seeking refuge in Europe was substantially high, with Austria being the fourth largest receiving country of asylum seekers in Europe. This data collection is the first of its kind in Aust…
Navigating a Paradox: Well-Being and Dimensions of (Non-)Belonging of Syrian Refugees in Austria
This article examines the challenges Syrian refugees who arrived in Austria between 2008 and 2021 face in building social capital, where a lack of connectedness to the host community presents a key obstacle to their sense of belonging. The study discusses the complex and nuanced concept of belonging among the surveyed Syrian refugees, highlighting paradoxes such as feeling culturally connected yet socially isolated within Austrian society. By exa…
Multi-Layered Roles of Religion among Refugees Arriving in Austria around 2015
Violent conflicts and social unrest in the Middle East, in Central Asia, and in Africa have led to growing numbers of persons seeking refuge in Europe since 2011. The phenomenon culminated in 2015. In that year, with 88,300 new asylum applications, Austria was the 4th largest receiver of asylum seekers in the EU, thereby increasing visibly religious diversity in the country. Using two social surveys carried out in 2015 and in 2017 among asylum se…
A Social Survey on Refugees in and Around Vienna in Fall 2015: Methodological Approach and Field Observations
The New Formula For Cool: Science, Technology, and the Popular in the American Imagination
»Our society has undergone a paradigm shift. In the information age, you and I are the alpha males,« Dr Leonard Hofstadter, experimental physicist and protagonist of the hit sitcom »The Big Bang Theory«, assures himself and his fellow scientists. The success of this and similar formats in American popular culture proves his point: Science has finally discovered the formula for cool. This interdisciplinary study examines how »cool«, a key aestheti…
A Social Survey on Refugees in and Around Vienna in Fall 2015: Methodological Approach and Field Observations
In late 2015, a survey called DiPAS (Displaced persons in Austria survey) was carried out in and around Vienna to study the socio-demographic characteristics, values and attitudes of asylum seekers arriving in Austria in 2015. In that year, the number of persons seeking refuge in Europe was substantially high, with Austria being the fourth largest receiving country of asylum seekers in Europe. This data collection is the first of its kind in Aust…
A Social Survey on Refugees in and Around Vienna in Fall 2015: Methodological Approach and Field Observations
Multi-Layered Roles of Religion among Refugees Arriving in Austria around 2015
Violent conflicts and social unrest in the Middle East, in Central Asia, and in Africa have led to growing numbers of persons seeking refuge in Europe since 2011. The phenomenon culminated in 2015. In that year, with 88,300 new asylum applications, Austria was the 4th largest receiver of asylum seekers in the EU, thereby increasing visibly religious diversity in the country. Using two social surveys carried out in 2015 and in 2017 among asylum se…
Nuclear family and social capital of refugees in Austria
This article provides insights into the role of the nuclear family for refugees' social capital in Austria, with a focus on gender‐specific differences. We use a multimethod approach, based on quantitative data from a survey with 548 refugees from Syria and Afghanistan and semi‐structured group discussions ( N = 17 informants). In our analysis, we study frequency of contacts in first language and in German, as proxies for the bonding and bridging…
The Refugee (Tale) Paradox: Narratives of Vulnerability and Aspirationality
The global refugee regime can be characterized by central paradoxes, similarly to how our societal narratives around displacement and refuge are fundamentally contradictory, yet immanent to the system they help to maintain. Following Hannah Arendt’s notion of the ‘aporia of human rights’, I discuss one particular salient set of contradictions as the ‘refugee paradox’. It describes a set of policy expectations and narratives around the figure of t…
Konsequente Humanisierung
Intermezzo – Was wäre, wenn Europa eine humane Flüchtlingspolitik betreiben würde
Mental Health of Refugees in Austria and Moderating Effects of Stressors and Resilience Factors
Given the exposure to stressors in their home countries, during migration and after arrival, refugees are vulnerable to mental health problems. Their access to adequate health care and other social infrastructures, however, is hampered. This reduces, in addition to other factors, their ability to take part in social and economic activities. We examine the prevalence of mental disorders among the refugee population that arrived in Austria mainly b…
Navigating a Paradox: Well-Being and Dimensions of (Non-)Belonging of Syrian Refugees in Austria
This article examines the challenges Syrian refugees who arrived in Austria between 2008 and 2021 face in building social capital, where a lack of connectedness to the host community presents a key obstacle to their sense of belonging. The study discusses the complex and nuanced concept of belonging among the surveyed Syrian refugees, highlighting paradoxes such as feeling culturally connected yet socially isolated within Austrian society. By exa…
Managing’ the paradox: Refugee self-reliance and solving the problem of refugee policy discontinuity
The refugee self-reliance agenda is marked by tensions and contradictions, echoing wider incoherence in the international refugee regime. We explore these through the philosophical concept of paradoxes. Paradoxes allow for multiple interests and narratives to be simultaneously ‘true’, leading to refugee policy outcomes that are often incoherent by omission instead of commission. To illustrate this, we draw on recent empirical studies to examine h…
(Im)permanent Settlement: Protracted Displacement and Secondary Movement Experiences of Syrian Refugees from Turkey to Austria
In 2022, Austria experienced a significant surge in Syrian arrivals. Unlike refugees arriving to Europe in 2015/2016, who predominantly embarked on direct journeys from Syria, most of the recently admitted cohort experienced protracted displacement in Turkey. During these prolonged periods in transit, individuals’ fundamental rights and essential economic, social, and psychological needs frequently remained unmet, due to the weak Temporary Protec…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Refugee (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works)