ENIEC member Eva Rönkkö defends her PhD thesis on sport for foreign-born seniors Cum Laude

On 20 of January, I defended my PhD Theses: Being Along but Excluded – an Ethnographic Study of supervised group exercise with foreign-born women. My task was to increase the understanding regarding factors that arise when local sports culture and being foreign-born come together. So, I wanted to know: what kinds of diversity and/or experiences […]

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Bienvenido welcomes elderly with migration background and narrow purse

Bienvenido means “welcome” and is the name of a recently opened residential care centre for elderly people with a migration background. To be more specific: for elderly with a Cape Verdean and/or Surinamese background in Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands. Bienvenido is the third location of the care organization MOB. Residential care centers Boomgaard […]

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THE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP NEEDS NEW MEMBERS!

Do you like to write articles, communicate using social media, edit text and update websites? The communications group is looking for you! The group meets 4-5 times a year online and is responsible for putting together and submitting the newsletters, keeping the website updated and to share news on social media. Since we have many […]

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Fighting for access interpreters in care: the story of the “this is a child not an interpreter” campaign

Language barriers in care Language is one of the most common barriers to access care for a large group of older migrants, particularly late-in-life migrants and refugees. Not being able to explain your symptoms to the doctor or understand the treatment they suggest can have very negative consequences for your health. For care professionals, language […]

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