The Cultural Integration of Young Refugees: an Experience Within the Italian Academic Context

Abstract

Cultural and academic integration of migrants and refugees is a structural social need of Mediterranean Europe. Despite often being managed and experienced as emergencies, they call for effective tools capable of creating new opportunities both for newly arrived and the hosting communities. The paper sets out to highlight how the results of sociological research, in an interdisciplinary approach, may constitute useful tools for the clarification of previous studies undertaken on refugees and students, to the point of creating outcomes that may be considered genuine practices of social and cultural inclusion (Dryden-Peterson, S. 2011), necessary for reprogramming European inclusion policies and for turning around the perspective of migration from a problem to an opportunity for new human capital, avoiding the waste and erosion of ‘migratory resources’.

Scardigno F. (2019) "The Cultural Integration of Young Refugees: an Experience Within the Italian Academic Context " Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 11(3), 283-303. DOI: 10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2019-3-16  
Year of Publication
2019
Journal
Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume
11
Issue Number
3
Start Page
283
Last Page
303
Date Published
10/2019
ISSN Number
2035-4983
Serial Article Number
16
DOI
10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2019-3-16
Issue
Section
Articles