The purpose of my thesis focuses on the role of the lack of access to water on sustainable livelihoods in informal settlements in Bangalore. The problem that my thesis focuses on is that non-notified residents in Bangalore ...

This master’s thesis seeks to understand the parallels between migration industry literature regarding migration brokers and its relevance within international football. With the internationalization of many sports industries, ...

This research contributes to a better knowledge of the use of mobile phones and (social) media, and how this influences the livelihoods of the born frees living in the small-town Alice (Eastern Cape, South Africa). The ...

People construct borders to demarcate and protect their identities. Local policy choices, for example on a municipal level, can influence feelings of identity; and therefore, the border perception. This border perception ...

In the Netherlands, there are several citizens and organizations that take the initiative to express some kind of solidarity with status holders. With the integration policies moving towards a participation society, with ...

The aim of this research is to examine the transition space of local communities, incurred by demographic changes and labour migration, and the local population’s perception towards these concepts. To answer this research ...

This ethnographic case study focusses on post-colonial relations between Sint Maarten and its (former) Dutch metropole that are revealed by the disaster of hurricane Irma of 2017. The design of this research is based ...

The concept of an arrival city reveals a new approach to urban reality, co-shaped by migrants. The following thesis draws on this very idea of slum areas as gateways to the city. Saunders perceives slums as neighbourhoods ...

This master thesis sheds light on different ways of how residents in Jakarta, Bogor and Cianjur, Indonesia, experience empowerment that is related to their farming practices and contribution to local developments, with an ...

In contemporary global value chains, flows of mobilities of people and products continuously criss-cross one other. Engaging with the ‘mobilities turn’ and networked conceptualisations of value chains, this research empirically ...