This article discusses both the design and implementation of Soziale Stadt program as well as effects of the recent welfare and labor market reforms in terms of the role their activation and participation strategies play in combating social exclusion. In a first section, the context of the...

Seasonal migration is an ever more important phenomenon worldwide, but has received little attention in empirical research. This paper investigates the choice of seasonal versus longer-term migration on a household level. We use data from Moldova, a country that is witnessing a massive...

Conducted from a social-pedagogical perspective, this study, which is based on biographical analyses, focuses on the question of how education and learning in a broad sense are connected to the academic education of children and youth in out-of-home care. Two case examples of young women who...