Linking Northern Communities

Activity

public roundtables; School outreach project; Seminars; Public report; publication

Description

This programme focused on the importance of understanding social, cultural and economic parameters of integration of migrants into Scottish society, and how awareness of common links of heritage and its influence on identity can improve and ease the integration of migrants into their new environment. The comparison of different migration waves over time, as well as the comparison of experiences of different groups of East European migrants will facilitate a dialogue between academics, policy-makers, charities and migrant communities and ensure a better coordination of their endeavours at community-level.

1. three public roundtables and participation in May Festival
2. School outreach project with Seaton Primary, Sunnybank Primary and Walker Road Torry, Aberdeen, as well as Polish Saturday School in Inverness and Edinburgh
3. participation in and public speech before the Cross-party group on Poland in the Scottish Parliament
4. Seminars to produce policy-influencing documentation
5. Public final report and publication (occasional paper) available on the SUII website

Organiser and author.

further details perviously availabe at http://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/Programmes20142015/LinkingNorthernCommunities.aspx

Period	1 Oct 2014 → 30 Apr 2015
Held at	History
Degree of Recognition	Regional