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Researcher

Sophie Samyn

Publications & Research Data

Awards & Distinctions

14 Results

2025

Realizing rights in the shadow of the welfare state : an urban ethnography of outreach social work with precaritized migrants experiencing homelessness

Sophie SamynKoen HermansGriet Roets

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK

Uncovering the everyday resistance of homeless precaritized migrants through homemaking practices

Sophie SamynKoen HermansGriet Roets

A1 Journal Article in HOUSING STUDIES

2024

Melinda Madew, Marcin Boryczko, Mark Lusk (eds.) (2023) Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work. Cham: Springer, 294 pp (ISBN 9783031330292)

The denizen rebel : homelessness and homemaking in the shadow of the welfare state

Sophie SamynGriet RoetsKoen Hermans

‘We reach out but we also expect something in return’ : social work engaging with Roma people in temporary container homes at the edge of the city

Sophie SamynIonut CioartaMartin WagenerKoen HermansGriet Roets

A1 Journal Article in BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK

2023

A qualitative and responsive analysis of the post-mobile living project in Ghent

Sophie SamynGriet RoetsKoen Hermans

Een kwalitatieve en responsieve analyse van het Postmobiel wonen-project in Gent

Sophie SamynGriet RoetsKoen Hermans

2022

Dak- en thuisloosheid bij jongvolwassenen : cijfers en geleefde ervaringen van jongeren

Lore DewanckelSophie SamynHebe Van LaethemGriet RoetsTineke SchiettecatKoen HermansEvelien DemaerschalkMartin WagenerNoémie EmmanuelJosepha Moriau et al.

2021

Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in the Brussels red-light district

Sarah AdeyinkaSophie SamynSami ZemniIlse Derluyn

Telling dak- en thuisloosheid : lokaal rapport : Gent

Koen HermanElla VermeirSophie Samyn

2020

Reflections on the interplay between procedural, relational and socio-political ethics in ethnographic research with West-African women working in prostitution in Brussels

Sophie SamynSarah AdeyinkaSami ZemniIlse Derluyn

A2 Journal Article in QUALITATIVE RESEARCH JOURNAL

2018

Seksmigratie als deel van de overlevingseconomie in Nigeria

2017

‘Europa heeft me wel tien jaar jonger gemaakt maar ik wil terug naar Libië’

2013

Nollywood made in Europe

Bookchapter in Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry