This book explores various forms of waiting on a global scale. Combining ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and literature, the work includes contributions from scholars, artists, writers, architects, and curators who analyze how waiting is connected to history, power, social class, and colonialism.
Content language: English
Refugee Education Coordinators in the Greek Educational System: Their Role as Mediators in Refugee Camps
In Greece, the program for the integration of school-aged refugee children in public education has been implemented since 2016. An innovation established by the Greek Ministry of Education to facilitate refugee children’s access to public school was the institution of the Refugee Education Coordinator (REC). The research explores the role of RECs regarding involvement of
From Camps to Schools: The Participation of Refugee Children in Greek Public Education
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork in Greece,, this study focuses on the government’s attempt to provide education for children living in Athens’s refugee camps, as well as the actors involved in this effort, interrogating the problematic phenomena and interconnectedness of crisis, hospitality, and solidarity. This article argues that refugee education cannot be understood solely on
The Quarantine Monologues – Refugee youth write during the COVID-19 pandemic
Τhe content of this book is the result of a series of online creative writing workshops, offered to 24 teenage refugees, both boys and girls, across Greece from April to May 2020, within the framework of “The Quarantine Monologues” action. The teenage boys and girls who participated in the action write about their experience during
Hoyerswerda | Frontex
This short film presents the testimonies of four Mozambican migrants about the racially motivated attacks that took place in Saxony in 1991. Their narratives are accompanied by archival footage of the German town displayed on one half of the screen, juxtaposed with drone footage from Frontex on the other. The film creates a dialogue between
“Those Bridges That Help You Get There”: How Natural Mentors Improve Social Support and Social Capital of Unaccompanied Immigrant Youths Leaving Residential Care
This article examines the role of natural mentors in facilitating the transition of unaccompanied immigrant minors from state care to independent living. The authors explore how natural mentors—adults who spontaneously develop supportive relationships with youth—provide emotional support, guidance, and access to social networks, thereby strengthening the social support and social capital available to these young
‘If we want, they help us in any way’: how ‘unaccompanied refugee minors’ experience mentoring relationships
This article explores the experiences of unaccompanied refugee minors participating in mentoring programs in Austria. Based on two multilingual focus group interviews with young people involved in a pilot “godparenthood” project for unaccompanied minors, the author examines how these youths perceive their relationships with mentors and how these relationships affect their social support and social
Statement on the Right to Education of Children on the Move
Statement of the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC). Adopted at the 22nd ENOC General Assembly, 21st September 2018, Paris.
Schools For All – Inclusion of refugee children in Greek schools. Manual: 31 Basic Activities
A practical resource for educational settings and schools across Europe to create an inclusive, welcoming learning environment for refugee students. The handbook is freely available in Greek and English as a pdf and in Greek as a digital platform.It contains proposals and actions that have been put into practice in training and in the schools
Migrants
Multi-awarded short animated film.Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate. However, they don’t receive the welcome they expect and find it difficult to survive in their hostile new surroundings. Is it, though, not just the bears