Elena Ponzoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 4083557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Ponzoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Ponzoni |
| SIGNATURE | PONZONI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9954-2409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration: Toward a Co-creative, Caring, and Reflexive Migration Studies
Introduction: Transformative, Critically Engaged Migration Studies
This chapter advances a comprehensive framework for transformative, critically engaged migration scholarship that responds to escalating global inequalities, anti-migration exclusions, and epistemic injustice. It traces how mainstream migration and refugee studies have long reproduced colonial, methodological nationalism and deficit-based representations of migrants and situates the rise of reflexive, justice-oriented scholarship as a necessary c…
Urban solidarities in late modern times: Interspaces for meaningful engagement in Los Angeles and Amsterdam
Late modern urban spaces marked by heterogeneity, forced proximity, intersecting layers of difference and normalised structures of inequality and marginalisation, require rethinking the conditions for an urban ethics of solidarity. Such an ethics of solidarity needs to go beyond notions of large collective movements based on shared values or claims and beyond demarcated communities. We explore the role of personal connections centred on meaningfu…
Doing Things Differently? Potentialities and Limitations for Enacting Radical Cosmopolitanism Among Citizen-led initiatives for Refugees in the Netherlands
The arrival and presence of refugees within Europe's borders has sparked widespread attention throughout the past decade. While exclusionary right-wing nationalist actors and voices articulated (and continue to articulate) an increasingly hostile discourse toward refugees, a strong counter-movement of citizen-led solidarity movements also mushroomed from 2015 onwards. This 'wave of solidarity' has sparked a debate in academic literature concernin…
Professional Encounters with ‘the Other’: Widening Accessibility of Social Work Practices in Urban Neighbourhoods
Social work professionals in urban contexts struggle to serve different groups equally. Critical social work literature advocates critical reflexivity in social work practices. Focusing on existing support practices, it encourages scrutinising the implicit ways social work practices can maintain and reproduce power imbalances and othering structures. However, it has not examined the tensions connected with phases in which the first contact betwee…
Conflicting Experiences With Welcoming Encounters: Narratives of Newly Arrived Refugees in the Netherlands
Personal networks can be both enabling and constraining in inclusion practices. This study focuses on the contribution of a particular neighborhood initiative for refugees in Amsterdam. Earlier studies have shown that in the specific context of the Netherlands’ welfare state, institutional or citizen initiatives can constrain the actual inclusion of refugees. These studies argue that good intentions do not necessarily lead to inclusion because hi…
Responding to the Dutch Asylum Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations
Between 2015 and 2016, the Netherlands experienced an asylum crisis, one that directly affected organizations working with refugee reception and integration. Besides civil society and governmental organizations (CSOs and GOs), the period also saw individuals coming together to form emergent CSOs (ECSOs). We look at these organizations to determine whether their work brought a shift in Dutch practice and policy with regarding refugee reception. We…
Caught between norm and difference: Narratives on Refugees’ Inclusion in Organizations
Purpose In this study the authors show how discursive spaces both enable and constrain the inclusion of first-generation refugees. For this purpose the authors analyzed a triptych of narratives from first-generation refugees, employers, and mediators (mediating between organizations and job-seeking refugees). The authors adopted a critical studies approach, paying particular attention to the ways in which meanings are embedded within the normaliz…
Windows of understanding: Broadening Access to Knowledge Production Through Participatory Action Research
This article presents a participatory research project involving immigrant organizations and professional parenting support services in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The project combined local development aims with co-generative knowledge and mutual learning to produce socially and scientifically relevant knowledge. By using participatory components as 'windows of understanding' in a broader non-participatory research, previously excluded perspectives …
Reframing Cooperation: Challenges in Overcoming Tensions between Professional Services and Volunteer Organizations Providing Parenting Support in Immigrant Communities
Volunteer organizations can potentially partner with mainstream professional services to provide better parenting support to immigrant parents. This qualitative study of cooperation between professional agencies and volunteer organizations known as migrant volunteer and community organizations (MVCOs) aims to understand the extent to which professionals and volunteers can transform frame divergence from an obstacle into an advantage. Using frame …
Reviving agency: Taking time and making space for rethinking diversity and inclusion
The path of social inclusion has proven difficult for minority groups in the European context. In this article, we focus on the inclusion of refugees, particularly in the labor market, and show how the difficulties they faced were related to dominant discourses on migration. Uncovering the hegemonic assumptions within these discourses is crucial in order to enable a rethinking of diversity issues and inclusion. We addressed this through an interv…
Writing history for business: The development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge
This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing press…
Reviving agency: Taking time and making space for rethinking diversity and inclusion
The path of social inclusion has proven difficult for minority groups in the European context. In this article, we focus on the inclusion of refugees, particularly in the labor market, and show how the difficulties they faced were related to dominant discourses on migration. Uncovering the hegemonic assumptions within these discourses is crucial in order to enable a rethinking of diversity issues and inclusion. We addressed this through an interv…
Windows of understanding: Broadening Access to Knowledge Production Through Participatory Action Research
This article presents a participatory research project involving immigrant organizations and professional parenting support services in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The project combined local development aims with co-generative knowledge and mutual learning to produce socially and scientifically relevant knowledge. By using participatory components as 'windows of understanding' in a broader non-participatory research, previously excluded perspectives …
Caught between norm and difference: Narratives on Refugees’ Inclusion in Organizations
Purpose In this study the authors show how discursive spaces both enable and constrain the inclusion of first-generation refugees. For this purpose the authors analyzed a triptych of narratives from first-generation refugees, employers, and mediators (mediating between organizations and job-seeking refugees). The authors adopted a critical studies approach, paying particular attention to the ways in which meanings are embedded within the normaliz…
Responding to the Dutch Asylum Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations
Between 2015 and 2016, the Netherlands experienced an asylum crisis, one that directly affected organizations working with refugee reception and integration. Besides civil society and governmental organizations (CSOs and GOs), the period also saw individuals coming together to form emergent CSOs (ECSOs). We look at these organizations to determine whether their work brought a shift in Dutch practice and policy with regarding refugee reception. We…
Reframing Cooperation: Challenges in Overcoming Tensions between Professional Services and Volunteer Organizations Providing Parenting Support in Immigrant Communities
Volunteer organizations can potentially partner with mainstream professional services to provide better parenting support to immigrant parents. This qualitative study of cooperation between professional agencies and volunteer organizations known as migrant volunteer and community organizations (MVCOs) aims to understand the extent to which professionals and volunteers can transform frame divergence from an obstacle into an advantage. Using frame …
Conflicting Experiences With Welcoming Encounters: Narratives of Newly Arrived Refugees in the Netherlands
Personal networks can be both enabling and constraining in inclusion practices. This study focuses on the contribution of a particular neighborhood initiative for refugees in Amsterdam. Earlier studies have shown that in the specific context of the Netherlands’ welfare state, institutional or citizen initiatives can constrain the actual inclusion of refugees. These studies argue that good intentions do not necessarily lead to inclusion because hi…
Writing history for business: The development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge
This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing press…
Professional Encounters with ‘the Other’: Widening Accessibility of Social Work Practices in Urban Neighbourhoods
Social work professionals in urban contexts struggle to serve different groups equally. Critical social work literature advocates critical reflexivity in social work practices. Focusing on existing support practices, it encourages scrutinising the implicit ways social work practices can maintain and reproduce power imbalances and othering structures. However, it has not examined the tensions connected with phases in which the first contact betwee…
Writing history for business: The development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge
This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing press…
Reviving agency: Taking time and making space for rethinking diversity and inclusion
The path of social inclusion has proven difficult for minority groups in the European context. In this article, we focus on the inclusion of refugees, particularly in the labor market, and show how the difficulties they faced were related to dominant discourses on migration. Uncovering the hegemonic assumptions within these discourses is crucial in order to enable a rethinking of diversity issues and inclusion. We addressed this through an interv…
Reframing Cooperation: Challenges in Overcoming Tensions between Professional Services and Volunteer Organizations Providing Parenting Support in Immigrant Communities
Volunteer organizations can potentially partner with mainstream professional services to provide better parenting support to immigrant parents. This qualitative study of cooperation between professional agencies and volunteer organizations known as migrant volunteer and community organizations (MVCOs) aims to understand the extent to which professionals and volunteers can transform frame divergence from an obstacle into an advantage. Using frame …
Windows of understanding: Broadening Access to Knowledge Production Through Participatory Action Research
This article presents a participatory research project involving immigrant organizations and professional parenting support services in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The project combined local development aims with co-generative knowledge and mutual learning to produce socially and scientifically relevant knowledge. By using participatory components as 'windows of understanding' in a broader non-participatory research, previously excluded perspectives …
Caught between norm and difference: Narratives on Refugees’ Inclusion in Organizations
Purpose In this study the authors show how discursive spaces both enable and constrain the inclusion of first-generation refugees. For this purpose the authors analyzed a triptych of narratives from first-generation refugees, employers, and mediators (mediating between organizations and job-seeking refugees). The authors adopted a critical studies approach, paying particular attention to the ways in which meanings are embedded within the normaliz…
Responding to the Dutch Asylum Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations
Between 2015 and 2016, the Netherlands experienced an asylum crisis, one that directly affected organizations working with refugee reception and integration. Besides civil society and governmental organizations (CSOs and GOs), the period also saw individuals coming together to form emergent CSOs (ECSOs). We look at these organizations to determine whether their work brought a shift in Dutch practice and policy with regarding refugee reception. We…
Conflicting Experiences With Welcoming Encounters: Narratives of Newly Arrived Refugees in the Netherlands
Personal networks can be both enabling and constraining in inclusion practices. This study focuses on the contribution of a particular neighborhood initiative for refugees in Amsterdam. Earlier studies have shown that in the specific context of the Netherlands’ welfare state, institutional or citizen initiatives can constrain the actual inclusion of refugees. These studies argue that good intentions do not necessarily lead to inclusion because hi…
Professional Encounters with ‘the Other’: Widening Accessibility of Social Work Practices in Urban Neighbourhoods
Social work professionals in urban contexts struggle to serve different groups equally. Critical social work literature advocates critical reflexivity in social work practices. Focusing on existing support practices, it encourages scrutinising the implicit ways social work practices can maintain and reproduce power imbalances and othering structures. However, it has not examined the tensions connected with phases in which the first contact betwee…
Urban solidarities in late modern times: Interspaces for meaningful engagement in Los Angeles and Amsterdam
Late modern urban spaces marked by heterogeneity, forced proximity, intersecting layers of difference and normalised structures of inequality and marginalisation, require rethinking the conditions for an urban ethics of solidarity. Such an ethics of solidarity needs to go beyond notions of large collective movements based on shared values or claims and beyond demarcated communities. We explore the role of personal connections centred on meaningfu…
Doing Things Differently? Potentialities and Limitations for Enacting Radical Cosmopolitanism Among Citizen-led initiatives for Refugees in the Netherlands
The arrival and presence of refugees within Europe's borders has sparked widespread attention throughout the past decade. While exclusionary right-wing nationalist actors and voices articulated (and continue to articulate) an increasingly hostile discourse toward refugees, a strong counter-movement of citizen-led solidarity movements also mushroomed from 2015 onwards. This 'wave of solidarity' has sparked a debate in academic literature concernin…
Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration: Toward a Co-creative, Caring, and Reflexive Migration Studies
Introduction: Transformative, Critically Engaged Migration Studies
This chapter advances a comprehensive framework for transformative, critically engaged migration scholarship that responds to escalating global inequalities, anti-migration exclusions, and epistemic injustice. It traces how mainstream migration and refugee studies have long reproduced colonial, methodological nationalism and deficit-based representations of migrants and situates the rise of reflexive, justice-oriented scholarship as a necessary c…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)