Marianne VervlietGhent University | UGhent · Department of Social Welfare
Marianne Vervliet
Master in Educational Sciences
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October 2013 - present
October 2009 - September 2013
Education
October 2004 - July 2009
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Introduction
There is growing recognition that daily stressors, such as social and material deficiencies, can be highly detrimental to the mental health of refugees. These stressors are in addition to stressful life events, which have been widely studied in the context of migration and forced displacement. Despite increasing evidence for an ecologi...
Large numbers of unaccompanied minors (UMs) have been migrating from low-income countries to European countries in recent years. Still, knowledge about risk behaviour and conduct problems in these populations is scarce. There is also a lack of knowledge about how mental health and behavioural problems in these populations change over time and wheth...
This article describes the situation of Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) in Belgium, both in terms of their numbers and demographic profile and in terms of their health and educational challenges. It sketches the complex Belgian legal and policy framework that determines the organization and the quality of care and support of this particular group of min...
Research articles about unaccompanied refugee minors (UM) have rarely addressed ethical issues. This is remarkable, given UM’s specific, marginalized and vulnerable position within society, and the growing interest and developments in research ethics in refugee research. This article poses the question whether studies involving UM raise specific et...
This article explores the perspectives of Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors on their own motives and aspirations and on the motives and aspirations of their family and community context at the moment they left their home country and at arrival in the host country. Interviews and questionnaires were used to measure the aspirations of 52 Afghan una...
Despite increasing numbers of unaccompanied refugee minors (UM) in Europe and heightened concerns for this group, research on their mental health has seldom included the factor “time since arrival.” As a result, our knowledge of the mental health statuses of UM at specific points in time and over periods in their resettlement trajectories in Europe...
Unaccompanied refugee mothers—young mothers living in another country and separated from their parents—are, in research and
migration policies, often defined in terms of four social categories: refugee, unaccompanied, adolescent and mother. In-depth
interviews were conducted with twenty unaccompanied refugee mothers from different countries of orig...
Despite growing numbers of unaccompanied refugee minors (UMs) in Europe, and evidence that this group is at risk of developing mental health problems, there still remain important knowledge gaps regarding the development of UMs' mental health during their trajectories in the host country and, in particular, the possible influencing role of traumati...