Marieke Van Houte
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marieke Van Houte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Houte |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HOUTE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8140-4618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mixing creative and qualitative methods
Contains fulltext : 319502.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Applied Theatre as a Co‐Creative Methodology for More Convivial Knowledge Production in Refugee‐Receiving Communities
This article explores, based on hands‐on experience, how applied theatre may serve as a co‐creative mutually and actively negotiated—convivial—method of knowledge production in refugee‐receiving societies. In this article, we argue that it only makes sense to conceptually understand relational processes of how we manage to live together, and interrogate structural mechanisms of exclusion, if we also embrace a move towards relational and mutually …
Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions
For both political and ideological reasons, return is the most favoured future imagined for refugees by policy makers and protection actors. This article analyses how humanitarian migrants in a context of limited durable solutions can be supported to reclaim ownership of their futures, as well as how this can result in deeper insights for social scientists and policy makers. For the case of Syrians, this study deploys futures literacy labs as a p…
Introduction
In this special issue, we seek explanations for international- and local-level variations in policy approaches to ‘irregularized humanitarian migrants’, who left their country of citizenship in hopes of finding protection abroad but do not, or no longer, hold a permanent legal status. We shed light on different policy responses and experiences across Europe, Africa, and the wider Middle East by drawing on a wide array of political systems and mig…
Talking about return. Governmental caseworkers' regulative, normative and cultural‐cognitive strategies during “return conversations” with irregularised migrants
Caseworkers of the Repatriation and Departure Service (DT&V), responsible for enforcing return orders in the Netherlands, systematically orchestrate “return conversations” with rejected asylum seekers and apprehended irregular migrants in hopes of realising the return of their “clients” without physical force. Based on semi‐structured interviews, we analyse which strategies the caseworkers use under which conditions and what they think about thei…
Globalised citizenship and the perceived legitimacy of immigration control
This article considers the legitimacy deficits of immigration control in the eyes of unwanted migrants. We explore the consequences of globalisation-related changes in the institution of citizenship for the perceived legitimacy and operation of immigration control. The study is based on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews in 2018 with 35 migrants in the Detention Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands. We find that immigration detainees use …
Beyond the deportation regime
There is considerable variation in how countries deal with the presence of migrants lacking a legal right to stay. We present an analysis of the post-arrival migration enforcement regimes of European countries using a two-phased mixed-methods approach. The article (1) provides the currently best possible statistical overview of forced and assisted return in 12 European countries among rejected asylum seekers from six source countries, and (2) exp…
Dimensions of agency in transnational relations of Afghan migrants and return migrants
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants maintain with Afghanistan. Based on qualitative case studies of Afghan diaspora groups in Germany and the UK and Afghan return migrants in Kabul, we focus on how people engage with and position themselves in relation to Afghanistan. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische’s tri-dimensional concept of agency in combination with Vigh’s idea of social naviga…
Back in Time? A Temporal Autobiographical Approach to Afghan Return Migration
Repatriation programmes for refugees and asylum seekers are based on the assumption that going ‘home’ is the most desirable thing to do to restore the social order that was disrupted by conflict. Yet the often‐limited success of these programmes as migration management solutions, shown in poor reintegration results and re‐emigration, shows that there is a need for a better understanding of the lived experiences of (return) migrants. This article …
Narrating marriage
This article explores Afghan return migrants’ strategies and constraints to identify with the different spaces of belonging they encountered, through their expressions and practices of marriage. We take an in-depth approach to the life histories of 35 voluntary and involuntary Afghan returnees from European countries. We find that in narrating and performing different marriage practices, some Afghan return migrants construct fixed boundaries betw…
Deconstructing the meanings of and motivations for return
Return migration after conflict is the result of a complex decision-making process. However, our understanding of this complexity is blurred by changing politicized understandings of return. In this paper, we compare the autobiographical narratives of return of ‘early’ and ‘late’ (post-mid-1990s) arrivals of Afghans who met with changing reception regimes in Europe and returned to Kabul under a wide range of circumstances. We first develop a fram…
Mobility Makes States
Mobility Makes States is an edited volume that brings together nine empirical case studies of mobility in, to, and from Sub-Saharan Africa, covering both historical and contemporary mobility. The introduction by editors Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk is engaging and thought-provoking: having claimed that by using empirical examples from the case studies, they are able to make meaningful generalizations about how mobility makes states, I was i…
Return to Afghanistan
This paper explores a new avenue of the hierarchisation of mobility amongst voluntary and involuntary return migrants to Afghanistan. We introduce the concept of multidimensional and multi‐local embeddedness as an analytical approach to the multi‐sited experience of migration, which merges transnationalism and integration into one analytical framework. Drawing on an in‐depth case study that focuses on the life histories of 35 Afghan returnees fro…
Returnees for change? Afghan return migrants' identification with the conflict and their potential to be agents of change
This article interrogates the assumptions that returned migrants can be agents of change in development and peace-building in the country of origin. In current political and academic debates, it remains under-defined which category of returnees can contribute to what kind of change. This article identifies four ways in which voluntary and involuntary returnees relate to the conflict after return: physically, institutionally, psychologically and w…
What Determines the Embeddedness of Forced-Return Migrants? Rethinking the Role of Pre- and Post-Return Assistance
Return migration is not always a process of simply “going home.” Particularly when return is not fully voluntarily, returnees face severe obstacles. This study argues that such return can only become sustainable when returnees are provided with possibilities to become re-embedded in terms of economic, social network, and psychosocial dimensions. We analyze the return migration experiences of 178 rejected asylum seekers and migrants who did not ob…
Development and Return Migration
This article focuses on the assumed relation between return migration, sustainability and development, in particular the role of NGO assistance and government policy herein. It is argued that a different approach to the relation between migration and development is needed both theoretically and policywise. Theoretically the need for a transnational approach based on the everyday epistemologies of refugees and their need for a sense of belonging i…
What Determines the Embeddedness of Forced-Return Migrants? Rethinking the Role of Pre- and Post-Return Assistance
Return migration is not always a process of simply “going home.” Particularly when return is not fully voluntarily, returnees face severe obstacles. This study argues that such return can only become sustainable when returnees are provided with possibilities to become re-embedded in terms of economic, social network, and psychosocial dimensions. We analyze the return migration experiences of 178 rejected asylum seekers and migrants who did not ob…
Development and Return Migration
This article focuses on the assumed relation between return migration, sustainability and development, in particular the role of NGO assistance and government policy herein. It is argued that a different approach to the relation between migration and development is needed both theoretically and policywise. Theoretically the need for a transnational approach based on the everyday epistemologies of refugees and their need for a sense of belonging i…
Beyond the deportation regime
There is considerable variation in how countries deal with the presence of migrants lacking a legal right to stay. We present an analysis of the post-arrival migration enforcement regimes of European countries using a two-phased mixed-methods approach. The article (1) provides the currently best possible statistical overview of forced and assisted return in 12 European countries among rejected asylum seekers from six source countries, and (2) exp…
Return to Afghanistan
This paper explores a new avenue of the hierarchisation of mobility amongst voluntary and involuntary return migrants to Afghanistan. We introduce the concept of multidimensional and multi‐local embeddedness as an analytical approach to the multi‐sited experience of migration, which merges transnationalism and integration into one analytical framework. Drawing on an in‐depth case study that focuses on the life histories of 35 Afghan returnees fro…
Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions
For both political and ideological reasons, return is the most favoured future imagined for refugees by policy makers and protection actors. This article analyses how humanitarian migrants in a context of limited durable solutions can be supported to reclaim ownership of their futures, as well as how this can result in deeper insights for social scientists and policy makers. For the case of Syrians, this study deploys futures literacy labs as a p…
Mixing creative and qualitative methods
Contains fulltext : 319502.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Talking about return. Governmental caseworkers' regulative, normative and cultural‐cognitive strategies during “return conversations” with irregularised migrants
Caseworkers of the Repatriation and Departure Service (DT&V), responsible for enforcing return orders in the Netherlands, systematically orchestrate “return conversations” with rejected asylum seekers and apprehended irregular migrants in hopes of realising the return of their “clients” without physical force. Based on semi‐structured interviews, we analyse which strategies the caseworkers use under which conditions and what they think about thei…
Globalised citizenship and the perceived legitimacy of immigration control
This article considers the legitimacy deficits of immigration control in the eyes of unwanted migrants. We explore the consequences of globalisation-related changes in the institution of citizenship for the perceived legitimacy and operation of immigration control. The study is based on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews in 2018 with 35 migrants in the Detention Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands. We find that immigration detainees use …
Returnees for change? Afghan return migrants' identification with the conflict and their potential to be agents of change
This article interrogates the assumptions that returned migrants can be agents of change in development and peace-building in the country of origin. In current political and academic debates, it remains under-defined which category of returnees can contribute to what kind of change. This article identifies four ways in which voluntary and involuntary returnees relate to the conflict after return: physically, institutionally, psychologically and w…
Introduction
In this special issue, we seek explanations for international- and local-level variations in policy approaches to ‘irregularized humanitarian migrants’, who left their country of citizenship in hopes of finding protection abroad but do not, or no longer, hold a permanent legal status. We shed light on different policy responses and experiences across Europe, Africa, and the wider Middle East by drawing on a wide array of political systems and mig…
Narrating marriage
This article explores Afghan return migrants’ strategies and constraints to identify with the different spaces of belonging they encountered, through their expressions and practices of marriage. We take an in-depth approach to the life histories of 35 voluntary and involuntary Afghan returnees from European countries. We find that in narrating and performing different marriage practices, some Afghan return migrants construct fixed boundaries betw…
Dimensions of agency in transnational relations of Afghan migrants and return migrants
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants maintain with Afghanistan. Based on qualitative case studies of Afghan diaspora groups in Germany and the UK and Afghan return migrants in Kabul, we focus on how people engage with and position themselves in relation to Afghanistan. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische’s tri-dimensional concept of agency in combination with Vigh’s idea of social naviga…
Deconstructing the meanings of and motivations for return
Return migration after conflict is the result of a complex decision-making process. However, our understanding of this complexity is blurred by changing politicized understandings of return. In this paper, we compare the autobiographical narratives of return of ‘early’ and ‘late’ (post-mid-1990s) arrivals of Afghans who met with changing reception regimes in Europe and returned to Kabul under a wide range of circumstances. We first develop a fram…
Back in Time? A Temporal Autobiographical Approach to Afghan Return Migration
Repatriation programmes for refugees and asylum seekers are based on the assumption that going ‘home’ is the most desirable thing to do to restore the social order that was disrupted by conflict. Yet the often‐limited success of these programmes as migration management solutions, shown in poor reintegration results and re‐emigration, shows that there is a need for a better understanding of the lived experiences of (return) migrants. This article …
Development and Return Migration
This article focuses on the assumed relation between return migration, sustainability and development, in particular the role of NGO assistance and government policy herein. It is argued that a different approach to the relation between migration and development is needed both theoretically and policywise. Theoretically the need for a transnational approach based on the everyday epistemologies of refugees and their need for a sense of belonging i…
What Determines the Embeddedness of Forced-Return Migrants? Rethinking the Role of Pre- and Post-Return Assistance
Return migration is not always a process of simply “going home.” Particularly when return is not fully voluntarily, returnees face severe obstacles. This study argues that such return can only become sustainable when returnees are provided with possibilities to become re-embedded in terms of economic, social network, and psychosocial dimensions. We analyze the return migration experiences of 178 rejected asylum seekers and migrants who did not ob…
Return to Afghanistan
This paper explores a new avenue of the hierarchisation of mobility amongst voluntary and involuntary return migrants to Afghanistan. We introduce the concept of multidimensional and multi‐local embeddedness as an analytical approach to the multi‐sited experience of migration, which merges transnationalism and integration into one analytical framework. Drawing on an in‐depth case study that focuses on the life histories of 35 Afghan returnees fro…
Returnees for change? Afghan return migrants' identification with the conflict and their potential to be agents of change
This article interrogates the assumptions that returned migrants can be agents of change in development and peace-building in the country of origin. In current political and academic debates, it remains under-defined which category of returnees can contribute to what kind of change. This article identifies four ways in which voluntary and involuntary returnees relate to the conflict after return: physically, institutionally, psychologically and w…
Deconstructing the meanings of and motivations for return
Return migration after conflict is the result of a complex decision-making process. However, our understanding of this complexity is blurred by changing politicized understandings of return. In this paper, we compare the autobiographical narratives of return of ‘early’ and ‘late’ (post-mid-1990s) arrivals of Afghans who met with changing reception regimes in Europe and returned to Kabul under a wide range of circumstances. We first develop a fram…
Mobility Makes States
Mobility Makes States is an edited volume that brings together nine empirical case studies of mobility in, to, and from Sub-Saharan Africa, covering both historical and contemporary mobility. The introduction by editors Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk is engaging and thought-provoking: having claimed that by using empirical examples from the case studies, they are able to make meaningful generalizations about how mobility makes states, I was i…
Narrating marriage
This article explores Afghan return migrants’ strategies and constraints to identify with the different spaces of belonging they encountered, through their expressions and practices of marriage. We take an in-depth approach to the life histories of 35 voluntary and involuntary Afghan returnees from European countries. We find that in narrating and performing different marriage practices, some Afghan return migrants construct fixed boundaries betw…
Dimensions of agency in transnational relations of Afghan migrants and return migrants
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants maintain with Afghanistan. Based on qualitative case studies of Afghan diaspora groups in Germany and the UK and Afghan return migrants in Kabul, we focus on how people engage with and position themselves in relation to Afghanistan. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische’s tri-dimensional concept of agency in combination with Vigh’s idea of social naviga…
Back in Time? A Temporal Autobiographical Approach to Afghan Return Migration
Repatriation programmes for refugees and asylum seekers are based on the assumption that going ‘home’ is the most desirable thing to do to restore the social order that was disrupted by conflict. Yet the often‐limited success of these programmes as migration management solutions, shown in poor reintegration results and re‐emigration, shows that there is a need for a better understanding of the lived experiences of (return) migrants. This article …
Beyond the deportation regime
There is considerable variation in how countries deal with the presence of migrants lacking a legal right to stay. We present an analysis of the post-arrival migration enforcement regimes of European countries using a two-phased mixed-methods approach. The article (1) provides the currently best possible statistical overview of forced and assisted return in 12 European countries among rejected asylum seekers from six source countries, and (2) exp…
Globalised citizenship and the perceived legitimacy of immigration control
This article considers the legitimacy deficits of immigration control in the eyes of unwanted migrants. We explore the consequences of globalisation-related changes in the institution of citizenship for the perceived legitimacy and operation of immigration control. The study is based on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews in 2018 with 35 migrants in the Detention Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands. We find that immigration detainees use …
Talking about return. Governmental caseworkers' regulative, normative and cultural‐cognitive strategies during “return conversations” with irregularised migrants
Caseworkers of the Repatriation and Departure Service (DT&V), responsible for enforcing return orders in the Netherlands, systematically orchestrate “return conversations” with rejected asylum seekers and apprehended irregular migrants in hopes of realising the return of their “clients” without physical force. Based on semi‐structured interviews, we analyse which strategies the caseworkers use under which conditions and what they think about thei…
Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions
For both political and ideological reasons, return is the most favoured future imagined for refugees by policy makers and protection actors. This article analyses how humanitarian migrants in a context of limited durable solutions can be supported to reclaim ownership of their futures, as well as how this can result in deeper insights for social scientists and policy makers. For the case of Syrians, this study deploys futures literacy labs as a p…
Introduction
In this special issue, we seek explanations for international- and local-level variations in policy approaches to ‘irregularized humanitarian migrants’, who left their country of citizenship in hopes of finding protection abroad but do not, or no longer, hold a permanent legal status. We shed light on different policy responses and experiences across Europe, Africa, and the wider Middle East by drawing on a wide array of political systems and mig…
Applied Theatre as a Co‐Creative Methodology for More Convivial Knowledge Production in Refugee‐Receiving Communities
This article explores, based on hands‐on experience, how applied theatre may serve as a co‐creative mutually and actively negotiated—convivial—method of knowledge production in refugee‐receiving societies. In this article, we argue that it only makes sense to conceptually understand relational processes of how we manage to live together, and interrogate structural mechanisms of exclusion, if we also embrace a move towards relational and mutually …
Mixing creative and qualitative methods
Contains fulltext : 319502.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works)