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Guideline for Policy Makers

1. Listening to Immigrants

Hearing the points of view of immigrant students to set up adapted strategies.

The best way to increase opportunities for economic and social mobility for immigrant communities is to bet on education, and turn it into a strategic intervention axis for public policy action.
Listen to the immigrant students and their families, so that you can design policies and strategies that match their expectations and needs.

Publications From the School Safety Net Portal

When school lessons are different from home lessons: a psychosocial approach to Muslim immigrants’ children’s relations to knowledge
This article, written by Audrey Heine, Nicolas Van der Linden, Charlotte van den Abeele and Laurent Licata (Belgium), addresses the construction of relations to knowledge among young people with a Muslim immigrant background.

Online Manuals From the Routes Portal

Partire è un po’ morire (“To leave is a bit like to die”, an Italian proverb).
This resource focuses on the contradictory feelings associated with the experience of migrating to another country from the point of view of children and adolescents. It gives relevance to learning a language and its personal, emotional and cultural implications.
Home far away from home
A second life in the new countries: to find a job, to learn a language, to meet new people…

Interviews

Interviews on migration issues
The interviews, available on the Routes Portal (Log-in: teacher – pixel), were made with Migrants and Natives who have been in contact with immigrants.
Interviews on migration issues
A section of the School Inclusion Portal is dedicated to interviews, made in five different European countries, with counsellors in charge of educational policies, headteachers, teachers, parents and students dealing with the prevention of early school leaving.

Reports

Donner la parole aux jeunes (Let young people speak),
Report on ill-accompanied children by the general delegate for children’s rights in French-speaking Belgium, November 2011 (Belgium).

Index

20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.