Between insecurity and hope

Reflections on youth work with young refugees

Maria Pisani, Tanya Basarab, Barbara Giovanna Bello, Sofia Laine

• Publisher: Conseil de l'Europe
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9789287188595
• eBook ISBN: 9789287189332
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Youth work can offer a space for young refugees to express themselves and participate in society. This Youth Knowledge book presents theoretical references and reflections on the experiences of young refugees and the way they reconcile personal hope with the tensions within their host societies. It also explores learning from practices and their theoretical underpinnings concerning the role of youth work in a cross-sectoral approach. This book aims to be a reference for policy makers, practitioners and researchers in the youth field and stakeholders from other sectors working on inclusion, access to rights and the participation of young refugees.All the contributors propose a very critical engagement with the reality of young refugees in today's Europe, where tolerance levels for negative phenomena, such as human rights violations, hate speech and discrimination, are on the rise. However, there is also an underlying message of hope for those willing to engage in a human rights-based youth work practice that ensures safe spaces for being young, no matter who, no matter where. Practices and reflections deal with democracy, activism, participation, formal and non-formal education and learning, employment, trauma, "waitinghood" and negotiating identities.
We hope this book as a whole, and each individual contribution, will inspire youth policy makers and practitioners to take on board the complex realities of unfinished transitions and borderland experiences and create a positive environment for an enriched and transformed youth work for the inclusion of young refugees in their host communities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Contents
• Preface. Youth work with young refugees – An enriching transformation and ongoing transition
• Introduction. Setting the context: some critical reflections and the contributions
• Chapter 1. Young refugees, youth work and a call for political energy: notes from an unfunded ethnographic study
• Chapter 2. The role of youth work in working with trauma of young refugees
• Chapter 3. Ankommen_Weiterkommen: impressions and reflections on working with young asylum seekers in Karlsruhe, Germany
• Chapter 4. Working with unaccompanied minors: preparation for inclusion
• Chapter 5. “Living under the same roof” – A home for young apprentices and unaccompanied minor refugees right in the centre of Munich
• Chapter 6. Learning to hope and hoping to learn: a critical examination of young refugees and formal education in the UK
• Chapter 7. Recognition of the cultural capital of young refugees: the CAP (Centre for Lifelong Learning) as an academic experience of inclusion in Italy
• Chapter 8. Transformation of youth work for young refugees in Turkey: a shift from emergency aid to integration initiatives
• Chapter 9. Young refugees and the role of youth work – The Finnish perspective
• Chapter 10. Refugee and asylum- seeking young people in the UK: human agency as a central principle of youth work
• Chapter 11. Youth work in the borderlands: reflections from Malta
• Chapter 12. Essaim d’Accueil: an example of youth work with young adult refugees in Geneva
• Chapter 13. Youth work and refugees: empowering young refugees through participation and involvement
• Chapter 14. “Altochtonen van de Toekomst”
• Chapter 15. Spark 15 – a refugee youth-led organisation
• Conclusions. Youth work and young refugees – Critical reflections on the evolving social order and bridges to inclusion
• Contributors
• Copyright
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