ImmEr: Immigrant and Refugee Youth
Integration through Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth in Residential and Community-Based Child and Youth Welfare Services
Project at a Glance
Project Description
The aim of the project is to empirically investigate the perceptions, experiences, and educational strategies of immigrant and refugee youth receiving child and youth welfare services, focusing on their engagement in informal, formal, and non-formal educational settings. In addition, the project seeks to generate governance and practice-oriented knowledge for local education and support systems in order to make existing educational, qualification, and support services more responsive, diversity-sensitive, and equitable.
Using qualitative social research methods, the project will: (1) comprehensively map existing school-based and extracurricular educational support infrastructures; (2) explore the experiences of immigrant and refugee youth in accessing and using these services, as well as their own educational and participation practices; and (3) examine the experiences and professional practices of educational and social service professionals.
The project is designed as an interdisciplinary, practice-oriented, participatory, and multi-perspective endeavour. Through collaborative future workshops, it brings together practitioners and researchers to jointly develop needs-based and tailored diversity-sensitive educational and support services, networking structures, and quality standards for multiprofessional collaboration. These outcomes will subsequently be transferred into local educational and support systems to promote sustainable improvement and greater educational equity.
Organisation
Sponsors
The project “Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education” is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) as part of the “Integration through Education” program.
