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Youth Work for Solidarity, awareness, diversity

2022-3-EL02-KA153-YOU-0000984752022Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: EL|TR|PT|BE|ES|IT|LT · Grant: €0
European identity and valuesReception and integration of refugees and migrants

Objectives

In recent years, the major issue in Europe and all over the world is illegal migration and the aim is to prevent this. Besides tolerance showed the refugees and the economic and social rights given to them caused an increase in this number and immigration for economic purposes by using this way. The historical process although the law of common immigrant policy in the European Union has come into operation since June 2015, there are still significant differences in the immigration policies of European Union countries. While these differences reveal different practices and solution focus, how functional of this focus is disputable. Regarding the current presidency in the European Union where one of our priorities is sustainable migration and asylum policies, we consider an important aim to deal with the issue of refugees and provide an international overview to our participants. The young people’s knowledge about the refugee problem in European countries is limited. To be obliged to live isolated from society and have problems with integration reveal this lack of communication. We considered to write this project to make the young people understand the European Union policies about refugees, to know the regulations in the country, and also to provide an environment for them to develop themselves. Refugees and asylum seekers don’t benefit from fundamental human rights on time and accurately. Not being known which services the refugees can benefit from the public and local administration is the reason for this. Also, the people working in state institutions and organizations don’t have enough information about which procedures should be performed for the refugees so this causes confusion. It can be said that there are perception differences and a lack of information. As long as the refugees and asylum seekers live together with society, they will have trouble in integration with society. The reason is that society’s awareness level is not enough and there are various prejudices and false information. Also, cultural differences have a big role, too. We included various activities in our project to exceed this concept chaos, to make people conscious in terms of involving the refugees and asylum seekers into the society.We regretfully witness that nowadays there are big prejudices against refugees in Greece and Europe and racist attitude is increasing. We formed our project to make the European people declare their thoughts about how we can exceed this refugee problem and to be volunteer for the world peace by looking these problems’ reasons. At the same time,we will gain discussion opportunity in the functional of mentioned policies and precautions thanks to our project. Training Course "Youth Work for Solidarity, Awareness, Diversity" will take place in Komotini, Greece 15-21 July 2023. A big advantage as participants won't only have training where they will gain valuable knowledge but they will have a study visit inside a related structure o Arsis with experienced staff while they will see firsthand the mountain challenges refugees face for taking Asylum, Education, daily life and most of all a better future. Also, they will experience the very negative attitude of Komotini local society against Refugees. Many people don´t have enough chances to meet with refugees and communicate with them. Seeing and actually living in the same place with refugees in another country would be really helpful for the perception of participants, breaking stereotypes about refugees, and understanding their needs better. At the same time, we will be able to show them that EU refugee and border policies application such as agreements and shelters inside real ones. Participants will understand the policies of refugees better both in their country and all across European Union and they will have a chance of observing another country’s practices. Participants can empathize while developing their social and cognitive skills, can practice in foreign languages, and get rid of their prejudices against different cultures if they have so they can start studies about refugees in the organizations that they volunteer for and they will keep on to be volunteering in different studies by developing themselves. While we create a more sensitive European Union youth about the refugee and immigrant policies which have been improved in the long term, these young people also contribute to the peace of the world by knowing closely the immigrant’s and refugee’s problems.

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