BOOKS

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Inclusion of refugee youth through an approach to lifeline maps and art.

Meet The Team

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THE

Project

Books with life is a project in which entities from Spain, Greece and Italy will share good practices in matter of inclusion through art for migrant and refugee young people.

From those experiences, we will create a guide with our common vision, analytics and  activities so each country in europe can include in their communities those youngs, with innovative methodologies.

SPEAKERS

 Library of Lifes

Radio Programme Leaded by Migrant People

photographies of the meeting

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LIBRARY OF LIVES

Library of Lives is a radio programme directed by Ousmane Diaby, Volunteer in Fractals Educación Artística. A safe space from migrant people to share their stories,self empower and aware their community.

IDEALS BEYOND BORDERS

20th of June is the World Refugee Day and we want to honor it by reflecting on the actual situation on forzed migrations. In contrast with people, postcards don't find problems to arrive to their destination, crossing borders by land, air or sea.

What if we make that our ideas of encouragement for migrant people, refugees and asylum seekers cross those borders?

We want to create a global action, sending artistic postcards, that is going to be included in the Erasmus + Project Books with life about young migrant and refugee inclusion through the art.

 Artivism & Education

Complementary activities for community inclusion through art methodologies.

I D'INTERCULTURALITAT

Collaborative zine created by valencian youth community. 40 youngsters including migrants and asylum seeker.
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Spain 2019

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All the information about
the first meeting 

Orografías

This first meeting is based on the spanish entities Orografías: A project that involves community, art and life maps. 

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Orografías is a project in which people migrant and refugee and their neighbours from Valencia meet and share a time together by telling each other the great stories behind them.

For this first meeting, the spanish entities with other local entities and personalities will introduce the partners to the Spanish reality and the different methodologies that they've been working with.

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"We felt free, we felt good because we felt that we were listening"

"To have advice you have to join a lot of people, without people you can not live"

"I've been through more than five countries to get here, so I feel growth"

"I see people, not where they are from or what they do>"

"We can make a difference if we work together"

Methodology

For this meeting, we will share, evaluate and improve the methodology of this project so we can replicate it in every european country

Debate

We  also discuss the potential of the young people as a force of transformation in times when hate and neoliberalism are trying to demolish every form of life.

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Which are the main

ideals for young people? 

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Which world do we want to create?

Greece

 2019

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All the information about
the second meeting 

Books with Life

This second meeting is based on Art as an Inclusion Tool and the innovative activities of Drosa Texni and Educational Innovation in social inclusion of young migrants and refugees.

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Sovint Cultura y Desarrpollo,  Fractals Educación Artística and Fondazione Emmanuel travel from Spain and Italy to Giannitsa, Greece.

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Verena Fink
Perception, awareness and self-confidence: Perception as a fundament for art and art as a tool for awareness that we need for an inclusive society. correlations and some examples from the praxis.

Angeliki Papadopoulos
Clay for inclusion and community awareness

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Gabriela Sampsonidou Angeliki

Sociologist of Minorities and Vulnerable Social Groups, Youth Trainer, Human Rights Trainer for Young People with Compass Method

Laura Maria Calderón

Music Soul Action  2016 other ways to understand  use music as an agent of social development in post-conflict areas

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Mohammed
Young musician,representing Un Message project from Proyecto Nagual (Raúl Sola) 

Sharing Methodologies

For this meeting, we will share, evaluate and improve the methodologies developed in the project. Droxa Texni and Educational Innovation adapted the Orografías methodology to their community reality creating new activities for inclusion of youth people in Giannitsa, Greece

Situation of refugees in Greece

Kostas Simitopoulos, coordinator for refugee fields in Greece

Shared with us the situation of the refugee and asylum seekers youngsters in Greece.

Italy

 2020

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All the information about
the second meeting 

SPEAKERS

photographies of the meeting

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The shadow of Antigone

This third meeting is based on the Institutional violence that migrant and refugee youth have to face in the countries where they arrive.

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Sovint Cultura y Desarrollo,  Fractals Educación Artística and Educational Innovation travel from Spain and Greece to Lecce, Italy.

Fondazione Emmanuel organized, together with their 40th anniversary, a big event. Politicians, journalists, and activists from the country worked together sharing and analyzing inciatives where organized people had to be active and answer for the human right's even if the policies were against it. 
The repport from that workshop is available in their webpage.

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Michelle Carducci 
professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Climate Law at the
University of Salento.Former coordinator of the International PHD in Comparative Legal,
Political and Social Systems at the University of Lecce, he was the European referent of the Euro-American Constituent Circle and First President of the Italian Section of the American Institute of Constitutional Law.

Antonio Ciniero
Postdoctoral Researcher at
ISTAT and was a professor of Sociology of migration processes at the University of Salento. He
collaborates with the International Center of Interdisciplinary Studies on Migrations (I.C.I.S.MI.)

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Nancy Porsia
Freelance journalist and expert of the Middle East and North Africa.She was the only Italian journalist based in Libya since the end of the Revolution and covered the civil war in the country. Specialized in migration but also traffickers’. 

Elly Schlein
Regional councilor in the 2020 Emilia-Romagna’s In 2016 she was appointed rapporteur for the Socialist and Democratic group on the reform of the
Dublin Regulation and after a long and delicate negotiation, in November 2017, a large majority of
the European Parliament approved the cancellation of the criterion of the “first country of entry”
to replace it with an automatic and permanent relocation mechanism for asylum seekers, which,
on the one hand, enhances the significant ties of asylum seekers and, on the other hand, obliges
all European States to do their part on reception.

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Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo
Ya lawyer, member of the College of the PHD in Human rights:
evolution, protection, limits at the Department of “Legal Sciences” of the University of Palermo. He
is a member of the Legal Clinic for Human Rights (CLEDU) of the University of Palermo. He actively
works in the defense of migrants and asylum seekers, in collaboration with several NGOs.
He is part of the European assistance, research and information network “Migreurop” and is part
of the “LasciateCientrare”campaign.ola) 

Sharing Methodologies

For this meeting, Fondazione Emmanuel shared their projects with youth migrant people, such as Sartoria Casa Francesco.
A project where migrant people sew together their stories into wonderful recyclated clothes and bags.
We also visited their home, the wood workshop and restoration workshop from the Foundation.

Situation of refugees in Italy

Migrant youth from Casa Francesco, intercultural mediators and users made us clear that the most important tool of inclusion for them was the communication. 
In the meeting with them we all arrived to the conclusion that Inclusion in european countries is always focused on migrant people to be adapted and not on the society to be prepared, leaving most of the work to people in vulnerable situation.