With the two award-winning bachelor theses by Lena Gawalski: “The Transition from Long-Term Unemployment to the Primary Labor Market” and Anais Schicht’s “It Was All New—the Language, the Culture, the School System,” a total of seven award-winning final dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences have now been published on the largest specialized portal for the social economy under the “Materials” section.

As the subtitle of Anais Schicht’s thesis makes clear, it addresses “Challenges in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood for Young Women with Migration and Refugee Backgrounds in the Context of Social Work.” She demonstrates that adolescents and young adults with migration and refugee backgrounds must, in addition to the consequences of their flight or migration experiences, naturally also shoulder the specific challenges of the transition from adolescence to adulthood, which is why these adolescents and young adults experience the situation of flight and displacement as a double burden.

What makes this paper particularly worth reading—and likely why socialnet deemed it worthy of special information on the first page of its newsletter—is the fact that Anais Schicht conducted an interview with a 23--year-old woman who grew up in Syria to gain a more comprehensive insight into the lives of young women with a history of migration and/or displacement. In this interview, Shabnan vividly describes how she is experiencing this transitional phase, the specific challenges she faces, and the opportunities she has been given.

Anais Schicht was also one of two recipients of the Germany Scholarship at the Faculty of Social Sciences during the 2021–2022 winter semester.