Reimagining Home: a Qualitative Research on Innovative Flex Housing Partnerships and Subsidies for Empowering Status Holder Integration

The Netherlands is dealing with a severe housing crisis due to factors like population growth and a shortage of affordable homes. This has led to soaring housing prices impacting all citizens. Particularly impacted by the consequences of ineffective policies for housing provision are status holders. Due to lack of homes made available for this...

Places of Belonging for the Displaced: Thuisplekken voor Ontheemden

The starting point for this graduation project was a fascination with how architects can design for people who live at the margins of society, people that are invisible to many. The research was an investigation into places of belonging of displaced people in the Netherlands. In this case, the term displaced people was used for refugees, asylum...

Roadmap to Belonging: Urban planning as a tool to facilitate the sense of belonging of Syrian status holders in small towns in the Netherlands

Forced migration has been a significant struggle in the Netherlands, politically, socially, spatially and culturally. The costs of this struggle are paid by asylum seekers and status holders, living in uncertainty and isolation. This thesis discusses the position of Syrian status holders in the Netherlands, refugees who have obtained a residency...

Co-dwell the multicultural community cohabitation: Co-living and Co-working as means for cohabitation between newcomers and Dutch starters

<br/>Co-Dwell is a project that emphasizes the co-living and co-working model as means for social cohabitation between Dutch starters and newcomers in Rotterdam as a multicultural city. It concentrates on smoothening the integration process of newcomers through involvement with the local community. The intention is to create an environment where...

Creating a city for a new generation of integration: In which young people with migration background have a sense of belonging

The Netherlands experienced a large influx of refugees over the past years, which peaked in 2015. Many of these refugees have recently had their temporary residency extended into a permanent residency. In spite of this, there is a disproportionately high percentage of unemployment among refugees and many experience a lack of social and academic...

The inclusive city: In which status holders are no longer just statistics

The year 2015 has become the year of migration. In total, around 60,000 people applied for asylum in the Netherlands, the highest number in the last 25 years. In addition, around 70 percent of this number has been granted a permit to stay in the Netherlands for an indefinite period of time (Dagevos &amp; Odé, 2016). Therefore, these refugees now...