Migration & Conflict
Objectives
- To get firsthand experience with integration measures taken in Denmark, both hands on and academically.
- To hear and discuss the thoughts of those working in the field of integration.
- To shape and challenge your ideas about the political, social, and cultural implications of the task of integrating into Danish society.
Previous Activities Have Included
- Meeting with Ethnic Job Team & Odense Integration Council
- Lecture by a researcher on Danish immigration politics
- Visit to a school with 85% ethnic background
- Meeting with Brabrand Housing Association, which aims to refurbish a ghetto neighborhood, as well as a youth-4-youth network group aiming to bridge tensions between local youth, social authorities and the police.
- Visit to Bazaar Vest, a Middle Eastern market
- Visit to the Aros Modern Art Museum in Århus
Description
The short study tour to Western Denmark focuses on the problems of immigration and integration that you study as an introduction to the course. You will explore integration initiatives, meet with researchers who study these issues, and come face to face with the immigrants who are directly affected by integration policy. Meetings with initiatives and researches will help you to develop your opinions
You will meet with a number of immigrants: members of the ‘Role Model’ & ‘Mentor’ programs at the Women’s Museum in Århus and a representatives of the communal development plan for the so-called ‘ghetto’ in Gellerup. These meetings will provide you with the opportunity to challenge the stereotypical notions of what immigrant communities are in Denmark.
