AGE OF MIGRATION

Age of Migration is a capacity building in the field of youth project that gathers a consortium of 6 organizations, 3 from Europe, 2 from Latin America and 1 from Africa in order to work together to responds to new needs we have identified in the youth field to be able to work with migrant : - The intercultural learning in Europe is outdated – there are already new approaches to the ICL that reflect the need to see Europe and the world as diverse community of equals, but they are still not mainstream. The new objectives should be looking at all of us as one, and learning to live in diverse society. Therefore, this project is a point of reflection and contribute to the ICL methodology. - Migration seen as something negative – we talk about the migration and refugee crisis, which is already indirectly statement that there is something wrong, and many people blame the migrants and refugees for this; migrants are often blamed for the economic problems of the countries, and mostly the negative cases including migrants are being showcase; We see the need of the counter narrative where the general population can see as well the other part, human one. - We have the new reality of migrants that youth work needs to reflect – here we mainly talk about the ¨second generation¨, those young people often suffers intercultural conflicts with their parents, and on the other side often goes through identity crisis, since they are not fully accepted as members of any community;Age of Migration aims at contributing to the development of new approaches of the intercultural learning in the contemporary Europe and the world, which was previously identify as a need to step back from the approached which promotes nationalisms and focus on the cherishing diversity, competences of co-living and anti-racist education. For this we will set up the group of experts who will work on the project and learn from the experiences of mobility and local actions as well as from their own exchanges of experiences and best practices to produce some concrete results. Their work will be based on a total of 16 Europe to global south mobility and 6 non-Eu to Eu volunteering activities. During their volunteering, volunteers will develop approaches in youth organization to better know, understand the migrants, and sensitize local communities and migrants to the reality of the others. This will be reached using the innovative method of story mapping and the power of images in video. Indeed all volunteer will undertake specific tasks: videos to testimony the reality of migrants, story mapping to understand deeper the humanity that is behind a migrant.Youth worker from all 6 organizations will also benefit from a training on ICL targeting more precisely the work with migrants and will serve as a base for the guide that the consortium will produce at the end of the project the “100 advices how to work on Intercultural learning”.