Foreign national and ethnic minority prisoners’ participation in formally organized occupations in prisons: A scoping review

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An appreciative inquiry into foreign national prisoners’ participation in prison activities: The role of language

“…Furthermore, foreign nationals wished for some adjustments to the standard activities in relation to language, religion and home country/culture. This is in line with a scoping review on foreign national and ethnic minority prisoners’ participation, which shows that it is important to consider their specific needs when providing prison activities (Croux et al, 2020). The implementation of a ‘progressive universalist activity offer’ (Bergmans 2017) is to be recommended.…”

“…Third, although foreign nationals are a heterogeneous group (Yildiz and Bartlett, 2011), this diversity is often insufficiently studied (Croux et al, 2020). In this paper, the attempt to study the diversity was limited to language.…”

“…However, research in Belgium has revealed that practitioners are struggling to offer suitable activities to foreign nationals (Brosens et al, 2020). To enable the shift from supply-driven to tailor-made activities (Vlaamse overheid, 2015), there is a need to understand foreign nationals' participation in activities, because far too little research has addressed this subject (Croux et al, 2020).…”