Essays about: "Valerie van Schaik"

Found 2 essays containing the words Valerie van Schaik.

1. 1. Wait here and be grateful - The illusion of colonial hospitality and the decolonial resistance of asylum seekers in the Netherlands

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Valerie van Schaik; [2023]
   Keywords : Agency; Asylum Seekers; Change; Community; Colonialism; Coloniality; Crisis; Decoloniality; Dehumanization; Exclusion; Feminist Studies; Forced Migration; Gender; Hospitality; Inclusion; Intersectionality; Liminality; Migrants; Migration; Modernity; Pluriversality; Race; Racism; Refugees; Relationality; Resistance; Victimization.;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses the pervasive influence of coloniality in the lived experiences of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Based in intersectional and decolonial feminist theories and methodology, my aim was to centre the silenced narratives of this marginalised group. READ MORE

3. 2. I am white, therefore I am : A phenomenological study of whiteness as experienced by white women in relation to Others within a travel context

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Valerie van Schaik; [2022]
   Keywords : Autoethnography; Bodies; Critical Whiteness studies; Female; Feminist studies; Gender; Identity; Intersectionality; Norm; Othering; Phenomenology; Privilege; Race; Raciality; Racialization; Spatiality; Situated knowledge; Transnational; Travel; White; Whiteness; White Privilege; Woman; Womanhood.;

   Abstract : This thesis provides a complex understanding of the phenomenological experience of whiteness as a racial category. Based on theories of critical whiteness studies, intersectionality and (white) phenomenology, I conducted five semi-structured interviews with five white women about their understandings of their whiteness within a context of transnational travel. READ MORE