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. However, gender mainstreaming is absent from  such practices , strategies and policies.

To address these issues the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies has coordinated this 18-month transnational project, funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals of the European Commission. Partners to the project include the Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities (CREA) at the University of Barcelona (Spain); the Centre for Rights, Equalities and Social Justice (CRESJ) at the Institute of Education, University of London (UK); the Department of Sociology at Panteion University (Greece); and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research (EMCER) at the University of Malta (Malta).

Within this framework, MIGS has published leaflets outlining the main results of the research studies that took place in the five participant countries. The leaflets also make policy recommendations on addressing the specific needs of young migrant women in secondary education.

The leaflets are available in Greek, English and Spanish.

For more information please contact info@medinstgenderstudies.org.