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Displaced in Media - building an infrastructure to support participation of young refugees through media
Date du début: 1 nov. 2016, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2018 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

Young migrants and refugees have entered European countries but they haven’t entered the public sphere. When they do, it is as characters in other people’s stories - desperate faces, surging hoards and floating bodies - something ‘other’. We rarely hear from young refugees as experts or legitimate voices - even when the news agenda concerns their country of origin. Migrants, it seems are only allowed to be migrants. There are many organisations, media-makers and activists across Europe who want to change this. ‘Displaced In Media’ will bring them together to create a collaborative infrastructure that supports the training of a new generation of young citizen journalists drawn from Europe’s refugee and migrant diasporas. At the heart of this will be 9 organisations working with young refugees and media across Europe: European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam); ZEMOS98 (Seville); Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” (Warsaw); Les Têtes de l’Art (Marseille); MODE Istanbul; Fanzingo (Stockholm); Kurziv (Croatia); Here to Support (Amsterdam) and The British Film Institute - Future Film (London). This community of practice - who have already designed the ‘Displaced in Media’ together - will focus on four linked areas of activity, which correspond directly to the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme. First, we will organise and participate in a 5-day residential training course for 9 organisations, 9 other facilitators who have experience of working with young refugees and media and 9 refugee citizen journalists. Second, we will develop, test and distribute a shared methodology - useful for all organisations seeking to work with refugees and media in Europe. It will be developed in a training course and a transnational partner meeting.Third, to show the value of this work, we will collect and spread 100 videos made by refugees which are known to and made by participating organisations. Fourth, in a multiplier event, we will contribute to wider policy debates about how european governments create the conditions that enable Europe’s new citizens to become a part of the public sphere. All over Europe people who work with media and young people are drawn to working with refugees and migrants. But this practice is often isolated - many groups are going through the same issues and challenges, but distance, language differences and time are all barriers to them learning from one another - and stop policymakers learning from them. This is why we need to work transnationally and we are committed to building stronger networks of like-minded organisations and sharing methods. It is also why our approach - whether we are learning from one another, with policy makers, experts or refugees - is one of peer learning. The great refugee crisis is a new event - there are no clear answers to how europeans should best welcome and live with their new neighbours. It is only through learning from one another that we can find the answers together. Learning gathered from and interrogated by many organisations working together creates knowledge which endures. All organisations involved in Displaced in Media are committed to using, sharing and putting into practice what they learn and sharing it within their networks. It is this commitment to extending and applying what is learnt in this project, which will make it more sustainable and in turn will ensure that ultimately, some of Europe’s newest inhabitants, also become its active, visible and more equal citizens.

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