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The growing number of forced migrants seeking safe havens around the world has become a central point of debate in the Netherlands. In this increasingly polarized context, there is an urgent need to enhance societal conditions for the durable inclusion of refugees. Close collaborations between policy and research over the past decades have shaped understandings of the challenges involved. The research-policy nexus has focused on identifying vulnerable groups and crafting policy that addresses inequality and deficits, reinforcing the image of migrants as mainly problem categories in need of help. What is missing is a reflection on and unsettlement of the invisible yet structural sources of exclusion (re-)produced through dominant societal and academic discourses. Co-creative research is one method to go about this. This chapter elaborates on critically engaged qualitative methodology’s contribution in transforming existing exclusionary structures and rethinking conditions for inclusion through co-creative engagement with diverse stakeholders. We argue that co-creative engaged platforms for knowledge production are necessary to enable ‘strong reflexivity’. This type of co-creation is crucial for academia to reduce its complicity in reproducing subtle sources of exclusion and to increase its impact through interconnection with societal stakeholders.

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Unsettling Normalisation Through Strong Reflexivity: Engaged Scholarship’s Co-creating Practices Toward Refugees’ Inclusion in the Netherlands

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    2026年

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  • Elena Ponzoni,
  • Halleh Ghorashi,
  • Maria Rast

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The growing number of forced migrants seeking safe havens around the world has become a central point of debate in the Netherlands. In this increasingly polarized context, there is an urgent need to enhance societal conditions for the durable inclusion of refugees. Close collaborations between policy and research over the past decades have shaped understandings of the challenges involved. The research-policy nexus has focused on identifying vulnerable groups and crafting policy that addresses inequality and deficits, reinforcing the image of migrants as mainly problem categories in need of help. What is missing is a reflection on and unsettlement of the invisible yet structural sources of exclusion (re-)produced through dominant societal and academic discourses. Co-creative research is one method to go about this. This chapter elaborates on critically engaged qualitative methodology’s contribution in transforming existing exclusionary structures and rethinking conditions for inclusion through co-creative engagement with diverse stakeholders. We argue that co-creative engaged platforms for knowledge production are necessary to enable ‘strong reflexivity’. This type of co-creation is crucial for academia to reduce its complicity in reproducing subtle sources of exclusion and to increase its impact through interconnection with societal stakeholders.