The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS), within the framework of the project Youth4Youth: Empowering Young People in Preventing Gender-based Violence through Peer Education, has published project information leaflets outlining the aims and objectives of the project, the project activities, and information on the project partners.

The leaflets are available in Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Greek, English, and Lithuanian.

For more information, please visit the project webpage here, or contact Georgina Christou at georgina@medinstgenderstudies.org.

MIGS is pleased to announce the publication of the book “Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting Integration and Mutual Understanding through Dialogue and Exchange”.  The book is the result of an 18-month project funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals of the European Commission and coordinated by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS).  (more…)

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies is pleased to present the recommendations which mark the completion of the project ‘Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting Integration and Mutual Understanding through Dialogue and Exchange’.

Policies developed for the integration of migrant children in schools usually fail to recognise the dynamic of gender in relation to then transnational experience of migrants. Having abandoned past assimilation approaches, schools in many European countries now try to build integration policies and develop practices on the basis of respect for cultural diversity. (more…)

Within the framework of the Project “Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education”, funded by the European Commission Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) in partnership with the Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities (CREA) - University of Barcelona, the Centre for Rights, Equalities and Social Justice (CRESJ), Institute of Education – University of London, the Department of Sociology at Panteion University, and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research (EMCER)- University of Malta, have published policy reviews on integration policies in the education systems in Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Spain and the UK. (more…)