BACKPACK ID

Bridging languages and memories to foster multiple identities: "Never leave your backpack behind!"

About the project

BACKPACK ID is an innovative intervention for promoting the inclusion of refugee children at school in 4 European countries (Greece and Italy, Germany and Sweden), which are met with acute and very diverse challenges by the ongoing refugee crisis. Informed by these differences, the present approach on social inclusion advances a common account of social inclusion challenges; it sees the social inclusion of refugee children as a function of addressing the needs and perspectives of those children and their families, and local communities and stakeholders, while affirming common European values.

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Outputs

Backpack ID using a bottom-up participatory method produced the following outputs in order to address social inclusion interpersonal and intergroup understanding in the school environment.

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Contact

The project is now closed. If you would like to request additional information about the project, you can contact the project coordinator here.

Mehdi's personal story Mehdi's personal story
Mehdi's personal story

The largest common similarity between me and my classmates is poverty. Everyone in some way have had a hard time in their native country.

I´m an Afghan but I´m borned and raised in Iran. I don´t want to talk about some bad things in Iran but I haven´t experienced it nice and fare in Iran towards immigrants. You were treated separately and if you wanted to perform better for a better place in the society you were envied and treated bad. My biggest wish have been an asset to a better economic chapter to help other immigrants who had a hard time in their lives regardless ethnicity and belonging, Muslim or non-Muslim…this is a part of my thoughts. I and my family searched us to Sweden via the UN to escape from poverty.

Our family history 16/2 1397 we started our trip. At 23:00 we left our house to Tehran. Due to administrative problems, we were in Tehran for a week. We flew to Istanbul on 24/3 1397 and we arrived in the morning of 25/3. I left Istanbul at 8:00 am and moved to my city.

Mehdi's personal story

At 14:00 we arrived at the final destination. This was the story of our immigration from Iran to Sweden. I went to school in Iran. My dad worked as a construction worker my mother worked as a housekeeper. Mom and dad decided that we would move because it was not a good place for refugees and for a better future. No money and no security. I wasn´t afraid of anything especially. It was really hard to be away from friends and relatives. I missed my friends, fruits and traditionally foods. The things I got with me were a memoryjacket, memoryshoes and a memoryshirt.

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