InMarx: Inside Marxloh
Inside Marxloh: Strengthening the Self-Efficacy of Girls and Women with a Migration Background through Community-Led Neighbourhood Tours
Project at a Glance
Project Description
Duisburg-Marxloh is a neighbourhood that is often perceived and portrayed negatively. Such representations have a profound impact on the lives of girls and women with a migration background living there. In particular, they tend to report lower levels of self-efficacy, which can negatively affect their educational and professional trajectories.
The project aims to strengthen the self-efficacy, potentials, and future perspectives of these girls and women. To achieve this, participants will collaboratively develop alternative and more positive narratives and spatial representations of Marxloh and its residents. On the one hand, neighbourhood tours for newly arrived women will be designed and conducted together with members of the “Empowerment for Women” working group. These tours are intended to familiarize participants with local infrastructures, thereby facilitating integration and the development of social networks. On the other hand, neighbourhood tours for external visitors will be developed together with female students, enabling them to share their unique insider knowledge and perspectives on the district.
Accompanying research will examine the development of participants’ self-efficacy through a process-oriented mixed-methods design. Based on these findings, success factors, barriers, and strategies for overcoming challenges will be identified and disseminated nationwide.
As a practice partner of the University of Münster, which has been actively engaged and well connected in Duisburg-Marxloh for more than forty years, Duisburger Werkkiste contributes extensive practical expertise and close links to local secondary schools and women’s groups. It is responsible for the on-site implementation of the project activities, including the regular socio-pedagogical preparation and delivery of programmes aimed at strengthening participants’ potentials and perspectives. In close cooperation with the University of Münster, the approaches and activities will be systematically documented in order to identify transferable success factors, barriers, and strategies for overcoming challenges.
Organisations
Subproject: Coordination and Accompanying Research
University of Münster
Subproject: Neighbourhood Tours
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.
