Project description
How schools support the integration of refugee families
As refugee numbers rise across Europe, questions loom about how well host countries are supporting integration. Schools play a key role in this process, often becoming the first point of contact for refugee families. With this in mind, the EU-funded SCHOOLAGEES project explores how children’s participation in school life can help their parents integrate socially. Using a novel ’S-connections‘ framework, linking school, spare time, and society, the project investigates informal interactions in school settings, especially through parents’ social media groups. Focusing on Ukrainian families in Estonia and Palestinians in Italy, the research combines socio-anthropological insight with policy relevance. By highlighting best practices, SCHOOLAGEES aims to inform more effective integration strategies across Europe.
Objective
The number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has increased significantly in recent years, giving rise to questions about the efficacy of the measures put in place to facilitate their integration in the receiving countries. Schools occupy a pivotal position in the process of refugee integration, representing the initial social environment in which school-aged refugees are integrated following their arrival. The introduction of a framework of S-connections (School-Spare time-Society) in the SCHOOLAGEES project addresses a critical research question that has been overlooked in previous studies: namely, how does children’s engagement in educational settings in the host country facilitate their parents’ social integration? The research will adopt a policy-oriented socio-anthropological approach and employ an innovative methodology of qualitative content analysis of social media groups of parents. This will enable an exploration of the informal patterns and hidden mechanisms through which parents are involved in socialisation processes in the school context and interact with other parents. The research will demonstrate the significance of the informal school network and illustrate its capacity to assist educational institutions in advancing the social integration of school-aged refugees and their families. The objective is to establish a comparative framework of good practices implemented in Estonia and Italy, with a view to disseminating it to relevant stakeholders and to other countries that may benefit from its insights. This objective will be achieved through the implementation of research initiatives with specific focus on groups of Ukrainian refugees in Estonia and Palestinians in Italy.
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HORIZON.4.1 - Widening participation and spreading excellence
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10120 Tallinn
Estonia
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