Zeynep Demir

Bielefeld University · Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG)

Research shows that religious identity is associated with health. The aim of this study was to understand the role of religious identity for refugee minors’ health in greater detail. Middle Eastern refugee minors resettled in Germany and aged 8–18 years completed questionnaires at baseline (T1, n = 246) and follow-up (T2, n = 122) measurement betwe...

This chapter reflects the converging arguments presented by the authors in a panel held at the Annual Conference of the Centre for Childhood and Youth Studies in cooperation with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University. The theme of the conference was the politicization of youth bearing a...

Wie hängen Menstruation und soziale Ungleichheit zusammen? Menstruation ist auch im Jahr 2023 ein Tabuthema, obwohl die Hälfe der Bevölkerung menstruiert. Dieser Artikel versucht aus einer intersektionalen Perspektive Antworten auf die Zusammenhänge zu Menstruationserfahrungen von Mädchen* und Frauen*1 of Color in diversen Kontexten, wie Migration...

Mit der Verbreitung von rassistischen Einstellungen in Deutschland (Zick/Küpper/Berghan 2019), stellt sich zunehmend auch die Frage nach geschlechtsspezifischen rassistischen Mikroaggressionen, da migrantische Frauen* einer Mehrfachdiskriminierung ausgesetzt sind, insbesondere die Frauen*, die sichtbar als fremd markiert wahrgenommen werden – sei e...

This chapter rounded up reflects the converging arguments presented by the authors in a panel held at the Annual conference of the Centre for Childhood and Youth Studies in cooperation with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University. The theme of the conference was politicization of youth bea...

Schools are relevant settings for supporting refugee adolescents' mental health. As education and migration are important social determinants of health, we aim to integrate the qualitative findings of our mixed-methods study into a broader discussion regarding the role of schools and the potential effects on refugee adolescents' lives and mental he...

Background: Coping is considered to have an important influence on well-being, especially in adolescent refugees dealing with a high amount of stress. In addition, gender differences in coping are a common topic for research and are often attributed to differences in socialization between boys and girls. Aims: The study aims at clarifying the gende...

Background: Studies on the health of minors with refugee background (RM) often focus on symptoms and risks. In contrast to these deficit-oriented approaches, the present study examined well-being and resources of RM. Aims: The aim was to get an overview of the extent to which RM differ from both minors with migration (MM) as well as native (NM) bac...

Applying a risk and protection perspective, this study paid special attention to the protective roles of parental and peer support in the face of perceived ethnic discrimination (PED) at school. Responding to the inconsistent findings of previous research, the survey study provides greater clarity regarding the interactions between PED at school, s...

Focus APA Division 45 - Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race Link: http://division45.org/centering-community-healing-from-a-warriors-path-task-force-lens/

Arthur Blume's 2020 Presidential Initiative for APA's Division 45. A call for psychologists to be Warriors to protect and care for people who are not currently served by psychological science. To be nimble, as well as socially and globally responsible in defense of the psychological well-being of marginalized communities and those in need of wellne...

A ‘safe zone’ refers to an area established in armed conflict for the purposes of protecting civilians. Safe zones can take many forms, but often consist of camps in refugee-generating states that are protected by the military power of a foreign state or by an international organization. As the numbers of displaced persons generated by the Syrian c...

Poster presented at the Berlin Workshop on Refugee Youth, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 24th - 26th October 2019.

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird der Zusammenhang von antimuslimischem Rassismus und Traumatisierung dargestellt. Hierbei wird Rassismus als Risikofaktor für die psychische Gesundheit verstanden. Insgesamt ist der Beitrag ein Versuch, das Phänomen des antimuslimischen Rassismus nachzuvollziehen und ein postkoloniales psychologisches Verständnis für wei...