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Depolarisatie en inclusieve seksuele zorg
Tekst uitgesproken bij de bijeenkomst: Rutgers dialoog: de strijd om seks, Den Haag 3 oktober 2019 Dr. B.E.Bartelink, Centrum voor Religie, gezondheid en welzijn, Universiteit Groningen Ik hoef u hier niet te vertellen dat de polarisatie rondom seksualiteit een realiteit is. Wat u waarschijnlijk ook wel weet is dat religie in deze polarisatie wordt […]
Blog post: Sexual well-being in the context of religious and cultural diversity
Which assumptions and stereotypes around religion and migration influence sexual health care for (African) migrants in the Netherlands? In this blogpost Brenda Bartelink and Kim Knibbe investigate health disparities in the Netherlands against the background of approaches to religious and cultural diversity. A girl comes home and asks her mother: “What is sex?” Her […]
Blog Post: Sexual well-being in the context of religious and cultural diversity
Which assumptions and stereotypes around religion and migration influence sexual health care for (African) migrants in the Netherlands? In this blogpost Brenda Bartelink and Kim Knibbe investigate health disparities in the Netherlands against the background of approaches to religious and cultural diversity. A girl comes home and asks her mother: “What is sex?” Her […]
Report and Policy Brief Launched!
On September 19th the Cultural Encounters team will present a research Report and Policy Brief during a Policy Briefing organized at the Dutch Institute for Demographics (NIDI) in The Hague. Prof. Dr. Agyemang, Professor of Migration and Health at the Amsterdam Medical Center, Dr. Marianne Cense of Knowledge Centre Sexuality Rutgers will give […]
Policy Brief “Seksueel Welzijn in de context van culturele en religieuze diversiteit”
PolicyBrief_Seksueelwelzijn_CulturalEncounters De Policy Brief legt uit welke kansen en uitdagingen er zijn in de benadering van gezondheid en seksueel welzijn onder mensen met een Afrikaanse achtergrond, in bijzonder wat betreft de rol die religie daarin speelt. De Policy Brief behandelt drie thema’s • Van seksuele gezondheid naar seksueel welzijn • Normativiteit • Diversiteit en inclusieve […]
Policy Briefing Cultuur Sensitieve (Seksuele) Gezondheidszorg in Nederland
De Universiteit Groningen en het NIDI nodigen u van harte uit voor een Policy Briefing Cultuur Sensitieve (Seksuele) Gezondheidszorg in Nederland, op 19 september a.s. van 15:00 – 17:00 uur. Onderzoekers in het project Cultural Encounters in the African Diaspora in the Netherlands zullen hier het rapport Seksueel Welzijn in de context van Culturele en […]
“Things are too fast here”- cultural encounters around time
Reflections from the field by Amisah Bakuri In May 2017, I went to the “God is good Ministry” in Amsterdam as a participant observer for my fieldwork. Usually I go alone but on this particular day I passed by Sandra’s home and asked her to accompany me to church. Her husband was not at home […]
Designing the Body – Lets meet!
On September 22nd the first workshop in the project Designing the Body, entitled Let’s Meet will take place in The Hague. The project team is looking forward to welcoming many women there. ‘Designing the Body’ is a project with, by and for African-Dutch women in which stories are […]
Designing the body. African-Dutch women’s narratives on health and wellbeing
Credits: Gabriela Bustamante Brenda Bartelink, researcher in our research team, has obtained a grant for a research and design project in which the stories of African-Dutch women are central. The lives and bodies of African-Dutch women in the Netherlands are often discussed in terms of problems around female circumcision, rushed or forced marriages or particular […]