Now online! Watch the ‘Youth Participation and Migrant Voice’ webinar recording
How do migrant youth deal with living inside and between two cultures?
Young people make up a significant percentage of international migrants and an increasing proportion of today’s urban populations. Yet, a recent UNFPA report laments that relatively little is known about the young migrant experience: “Young people remain largely invisible in research, public debates and policy about international migration.”
On December 1, 2009, Cities of Migration held an open 60-minute webinar on projects from Oldham, Paris, London and Lisbon that looked at the active participation of young people in community development and their views on identity and belonging
Learn from Raja Miah, Director, Peacemaker about how this Manchester-based organization works with young people from different communities and ethnicities to help formerly deeply segregated communities move towards a new, integrated “commonsense vision of Britishness.”
Marion Vargaftig, of Manifesta (London), described the Belonging project (Manifesta)a transnational initiative that uses intercultural dialogue and video to explore identity and belonging in London/Newham, Lisbon suburb/Casal da Boba and Paris/20th arrondissement.
Florence Laufer, UNAoC, framed the discussion with opening remarks on the youth project PLURAL+ and tells us why the UN Alliance of Civilizations has developed special youth programming; Helen Walsh, Executive Director, Diaspora Dialogues (Toronto) will launch the Q&A.
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