Our project went out to contribute to enriching of migrant inclusion efforts into European local communities through sharing reflective stories and dialogues on migrant experiences and perceptions. This is to contribute to an EU that is tolerant to diversity and that has increased supportive tools in inter-cultural citizenship for easier and quicker migrant inclusion. So, the 60 plus episodes of the podcasts of migrant stories should contribute to enriching/nuancing the migration dialogue. Beyond the migration dialogue and maybe local community empathy towards this, we also went out to produce concrete tools that should make this sustainable over the longer term. These include: - Running a training for at least 6 community mobilisers in podcasting and storytelling to both ensure effective implementation, but also to give them skills to continue this in the longer-term. - Based on the course above, develop an online version that is self-paced and forever available to both extend this to the public but also remain as a repository where learners can return to refresh their knowledge. - Turn a selection of the podcasts into a sharable storybook.
This project set out to compile migrants’ stories into a podcast to contribute to more enriched migrant inclusion efforts into European local communities. Following an earlier project that focused on non-wester migrants, this intended to move the focus from only non-western migrants to all migrants, because we found that many European migrants – say one from Portugal living in Denmark, cited similar experiences of for example the difficult of learning the language and what the limited use of the language and other now new country’s fuller cultural artifacts meant to their societal involvement. At the end of the project, we come out with stories that are immensely empowering, encouraging, and painting another picture of migrants, migration, inclusion, and the integration process. Like the first project, we combined the innovative tools of storytelling and podcasting. Storytelling has the benefits of allowing listeners to mirror their lives in others. Podcasting on the other hand offers an easy to go around interactive media, one that is counted as modern and has exponentially proliferated societies in the recent past. Combining the two gave the project reach, listenership, and relevance across all age ranges.