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Data: 13/05/2016
NR.: 156
DATA: 13.05.2016
TITOLO PROGETTO: “What are we afraid of? Xenophobia and Islamophobia in European Societies”
RICHIESTA PROVENIENTE DA: Ina Bülow (Germania)
TIPOLOGIA: Training Course
ARGOMENTO: Xenophobia and Islamophobia in European Societies.
PAESI PARTNER CHE HANNO GIÀ ADERITO: -
ALTRE NOTIZIE:
Activity date: 3rd – 14th of August 2016.
Venue place, venue country: Bad Bevensen and Berlin, Germany.
Summary: International summer program for youth leaders from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Northern Ireland. Our methods will be designed for train the trainers’ needs: inspiring, intercultural and integrative.
Target group: Youth workers, youth leaders.
For participants from: Germany, Lithuania, Poland.
Group size: 25 plus team participants
Details:
Attention: Participants from Northern Ireland are fixed, this is a call for particpants from Germany, Lithuania and Poland only.
Are refugees afraid of having no future? Are politicians afraid of migration issues because they cause social frictions? Are citizens afraid of national identities getting lost? Are critics afraid of Islam because it causes a danger for Western democracy? Are demonstrators afraid of one-sided media gaining the upper hand? In this project, we will address these burning issues related to the fear surrounding foreigners. We will investigate what it actually is that people are afraid of and why.
We will approach the topic by focusing on four major aspects:
1. Xenophobia: How do migrants and their hosts get along? We will look at history and share experiences about immigration and emigration. Participants will report on the situation in their home countries. Migrants will share their biographies with us.
2. Islamophobia: What’s religion got to do with it? We will speak with Muslim groups and ask about their understanding of politics and society. An anti-bias training will help us overcome our own prejudices and provide us with tools to train others.
3. Integration: How do we make it work? We will learn about theoretical approaches to integration and share best practice experiences. On excursions, we will talk with NGO representatives, social workers, and people from refugee councils.
4. Taking Action: What to do next? This project is not just about 10 days in a seminar center. It is about gaining inspiration for combating xenophobia and Islamophobia back home. We will inspire each other and work out concrete concepts for follow-up activities. It is all about overcoming fears. We aim at turning fear into courageous action.
All of this will be done in an intercultural setting with groups from Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Northern Ireland. Our methods will be designed for train the trainers’ needs: inspiring, intercultural and integrative.
Topics of the program
Since the program design will be coordinated with the participating institutions, this outline only gives some key words and general ideas. They will be the basis for the application; suggestions for further input and changes by the cooperation partners are most welcome.
Part I: Program in Bad Bevensen
• What are we afraid of? How we see ourselves and how we see each other (a first approach on intercultural learning with a specific focus on fears and prejudices).
• Moving lives. Migration experiences in family biographies and the context of historic events (a personal approach on migration and history).
• The challenge of change: How to combat xenophobia and islamophobia (practical training in democracy education).
• Working with refugees: excursion to NGOs dealing with current conflicts & integration (council of refugees and “Lampedusa in Hamburg”; visit to the open Mosque).
• Lampedusa is everywhere. Simulation game on current issues and challenges of EU immigration politics (with input on culture of dialogue and conflict resolution).
• A short time – forever. Immigrants and migrants share their stories (talk with time witnesses; events of world politics; short scenes and statue theatre).
• Diversity and democracy: practical training on integration and conflict resolution.
Part II: Program in Berlin
• Diversity and dialogue. Experiences of long-term cooperation with immigrants (down-to-earth projects in Berlin-Neukölln).
• Germany – an immigration country? Taboo topics and concepts in current politics. (Talk with a representative of the German government).
• Moving lives and moving minds: participants develop project modules for follow-up activities (creative tasks for international groups).
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