By Anja Hofer – Bojan, a Bulgarian father in Amsterdam, shares his son Krastio’s language development in a bilingual daycare, highlighting challenges multilingual children face. Despite Krastio’s progress in Dutch, he suggests biased assessments may undervalue their linguistic skills. The discussion raises concerns about adequate resources for multilingual education and emphasizes the need for a holistic understanding of language acquisition.
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by Isa Prieto – I arrive at Chennai airport at 1 am. As soon as I step outside the airport, the humid air envelops me, and I immediately sweat. My mother, Renu, is waiting for…
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By Lucas Kuijl – On an icy Monday morning, I found myself on the first ferry to the island of Terschelling. I was researching fisheries in the Netherlands and their lived experience of the sea.…
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By Romy de Vos – During my fieldwork, in all my conversations and interviews, the elephant in the room was always the deafening silence of the victims themselves.
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By Lilian Ebbelaar – During my research in a prison I have learned multiple things by actually doing fieldwork. The most important things I have learned though, are the importance of bias-free research, and our…
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By Wiebe de Jong – Like many Arctic, indigenous communities, St. Paul Island is facing many problems concerning food availability. Rising prices due to inflation, overfishing, climate change and the remnants of colonization by Russia and the US are one of the manifold causes.
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By Viviane Hamans Almost anyone who has been ‘in the field’, will confirm that at some point, crisis is part of the process. The amounts of time that I worried about whether I was on…
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By Marina de Regt Recently, during a supervision meeting with three of my Master students (all of them women), one of them asked about my own experiences in the field and what I struggled with…
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In this episode, Puck de Boer talks with Aleeha Ali, who studied sociology in Pakistan, did a research master’s in anthropology in the UK and is currently a PhD candidate at the department of Social…
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