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Migrants and Refugees in Europe: Youth Work for Inclusion

2019-3-FR02-KA105-0166722019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: FR|UK|TR|RO|IT|ES|DE|BG|EL|PL · Grant: €47,424
Integration of refugeesMigrants' issuesEU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Objectives

Through our project we wanted to build the capacity of youth workers and organizations so they can provide adequate support to young people with refugee and migrant background as well as to young people affected by "migrant phobia" and violent extremism. There is a clear need of empowering civil society organizations which work with refugees and migrants so they become crisis and to policies for the integration of refugees. This may result in providing both high quality support to the refugees and migrants as well as in supporting the EU and national policy making with valuable input. Our objectives were: A. To provide conceptual framework on the notions of emigration, immigration, integration and multiculturalism to youth workers from different countries; B. To analyze and give insights into the situation of refugees in Europe, into possibilities of supporting refugees and their families; C. To discuss and analyze the current refugee crisis and migration challenges in Europe and try to offer solutions from the perspective of youth work; D. To foster tolerance, respect and open-mindedness towards migrants while working with young people as a target group; E. To share experiences and best practices of integrating young migrants in youth organizations; F. To equip youth workers with capacity to combat hate speech towards migrants, misinformation about refugees and xenophobic discourse; G. To create a network of NGO's to be involved in the migration management process and contribute to the refugee integration process in partner countries. Considering above aim and objectives we wanted to equip our participants to build their capacity so we have a better social integration. To do this we planned two activities which; a training course dedicated to build skills and companies while also sharing good practices, a study visit to provide real cases, and experiences.

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