Linguistic Support for Adult Refugees

The Council of Europe has prepared an online toolkit to offer practical support to organisations providing linguistic assistance for adult refugees, for it is essential to enable refugees to learn to communicate in the host society as quickly as possible. The toolkit fulfils this need by facilitating exchanges,initially in emergency situations, and subsequently educating refugees […]

Migrant Training

IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. As an intergovernmental body, IOM acts with its partners in the international community to: assist in meeting the operational challenges of migration; advance understanding of migration issues; encourage social and economic development through migration, and work towards effective respect of […]

The Strong Civil Society Project for Refugees

The Strong Civil Society Project for Refugees, financed by the European Union within the scope of the Civil Society Support Program -II, is a project carried out by KADEM in partnership with the CEIPES association from Italy. Reports in this project were prepared in workshops held with the participation of NGOs working with migrants. Three […]

Migrant Women Learning And Teaching Through Participatory Photography

In this article, two studies that involved participatory photography with women in Nova Scotia who had recently immigrated to Canada (“Refugees Learning and Storytelling through Participatory Photography” (2013–2015), and “Refugees/ Immigrants and Refugee Claimants: Negotiating Place and Perceptions” (2015–2017)) were discussed. Using a feminist theoretical perspective, the participants’ photographs and transcripts of meetings to identify […]

Migrant Women’s experience of working in the care sector and domestic work in Turkey

This video consists of an interview with a Filipino migrant woman with care sector experience, who has already been living in Turkey for 20 years. Starting from her own experience, she talks about other migrant women’s experiences of working in the care sector. In the video, besides migrant women’s experiences, Connie mentions the reasons they […]

LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT CENTER

This project aims to enhace the self-reliance of refugees through life-skill training and school-support programs, in order to contribute to the sustainable life of refugees in Turkey, by strengthening their cohesion with the host community. The project is funded by PRM and started in October 2016. Education support facilities will be established in Adana and […]

MAV – ‘Multidimensional Training of Adult Volunteers to Foster Migrants’ Integration’

This is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership project with a running time of November 2017-October 2019. The project is focused on volunteers who serve as “companions” or “mentors” for migrants (including refugees, third country nationals and non-natives in general) in order to better guide them into the European labor market, help them to identify and improve […]