Integration conference "My home, our home: what unites us in a multicultural community" on 15th and 16th November in Tallinn, Estonia. Conference webpage: www.integrationconference.ee

1. THE EMPOWERMENTOFYOUTH
a tool to improve the relationship between
majority and minority and to strengthen
the cohesion of the society
Tereza Freidingerová, Ph.D.
tereza.freidingerova@peopleinneed.cz

2. Relief and
Development
Department
Human Rights
Department
Programmes of
Social Integration
Festival „One
World“
2 Education and
awareness raising
departments
PEOPLE IN NEED
CZECHIA
6
departements
36
countries

3. Relief and
Development
Department
Human Rights
Department
Programmes of
Social Integration
Festival „One
World“
2 Education and
awareness raising
departments
PEOPLE IN NEED
CZECHIA
6
departements
36
countries
One World at
Schools
VARIANTY
Migration Awareness
Programme

4. Migration Awareness
Programme
OUR VISION
Our vision is the natural mainstreaming of
migration issues in all areas of Czech society
(social policy, education, media, etc.).
“ “

5. Migration Awareness
Programme
OUR VISION
Our vision is the natural mainstreaming of
migration issues in all areas of Czech society
(social policy, education, media, etc.).
“ “
OUR
GOALS
• Balanced and source-rich media coverage of migration
topics
• Balanced and fact-based public debate about migration
• Governance of migration and integration of foreigners
stems rather from facts than emotions

6. Our vision is the natural mainstreaming of
migration issues in all areas of Czech society
(social policy, education, media, etc.).
“ “
OUR
GOALS
• Balanced and source-rich media coverage of migration
topics
• Balanced and fact-based public debate about migration
• Governance of migration and integration of foreigners
stems rather from facts than emotions
> advocacy work
> analytical work
> capacity building of
journalists
> empowerment of
youth

7. EMPOWERMENT
OF YOUTH

8. EMPOWERMENT
OF YOUTH
STUDENTS OF
JOURNALISM
SECOND
GENERATION
IMMIGRANTS

9. STUDENTS OF
JOURNALISM
SECOND
GENERATION
IMMIGRANTS
WHY?
> future journalists
> analysis of media framing of
migration shows lack of
knowledge about migration
> journalism as a major lacks
expert courses
> enough time for self-
development
> becoming adults and active
> raise of grass root activities
> lack of social capital and thus
also financial capital
> bottom-up volunteer based
activities getting professionalized

10. EMPOWERMENT
OF STUDENTS OF
JOURNALISM

11. • In a cooperation with the Faculty of Social Science, Charles
University >>> established a semester course “Journalist
and minority topics - media and migration”
• With financial support of EC – Horizon 2020 >>>
development of the course curriculum in three EU
countries

12. 1) CZECHIA
3) SLOVAKIA
2) ESTONIA
Faculty of Social Science -
Charles University
Faculty of Arts – Comenius
University
Baltic Film, Media, Arts and
Communication School
located at the University of
Tallinn

13. STRUCTURE OF THE
COURSE
• Introduction to migration studies (in a global national
and local context, sources and data work)
• Migration as a topic of domestic and foreign
journalism, of development and global
journalism
• Agenda setting, media framing of migration and
a role of a journalist
• Discourse and content analysis
• Field work

14. PRINCIPLES APPLIED
I) own experience >>> explore it by
yourself
II) critical approach >>> RWCT,
international teams
III) sharing of knowledge >>> amongst
students as well as experts and students

15. • Exploring of own migration story
PLACE WHERE
WE ARE
50 KM FROM
HERE
MORE THAN 50
KM FROM HERE,
BUT IN THIS
COUNTRY
ABROAD IN
EUROPE
OUTSIDE OF
EUROPE
• Where was your grandparent born?
• Where was your parent born?
• Where were you born?
• Where did you attend a highschool?
• Where do you study / work now?

16. • Explore others’ migration stories
JOURNALIST
FIELD TRIPS
> their university cities
> Czechia
> Estonia
> Slovakia
> Germany

17. • analysis of media content
CONTENT &
DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS
> Analysis of “speakers”
> Analysis of language used
> Analysis of metaphors
> Analysis of topics
using RWCT methods

18. • Enhancing of critical approach by
international cooperation
3 journalism
field trips
3 international
teams
3 media
outcomes in 3
national
languages

19. • Visiting experts
> Professional journalists
> Experts on discourse analysis
of media content
> Experts on psychological level
of language
> Experts working with migrants
> Experts on global journalism

20. • Working together
Media outputs
from the field
trips

21. EMPOWERMENT
OF SECOND
GENERATION
IMMIGRANTS

22. SECOND GENERATION
MIGRANTS
WHO ARE
THEY?
CZECH
VIETNAMESE

23. WHO ARE
CZECH 2ND
GENERATION
VIETNAMESE?
CZECH
VIETNAMESE

24. >>> Number of Vietnamese citizens
residing in Czechia 1995 – 2016 <<<
source: Czech statistical office
9 633
17 620
24 824
34 179
60 255
57 347 56 900
58 025
0
10 000
20 000
30 000
40 000
50 000
60 000
70 000

25. 215
247 241
341
366
430
322
349
475
428
517
608
767
913
947
862
893
1 104
965
996
1 041
0
200
400
600
800
1 000
1 200
>>> Number of Vietnamese citizens born
in Czechia 1995 – 2015 <<<
source: Czech statistical office

26. >>> Vietnamese pupils and students in
Czech schools 2003 – 2011 <<<
source: Czech statistical office
elementary
high schools
kinder gardens
college / uni

27. >>> Vietnamese pupils and students in
Czech schools 2003 – 2011 <<<
source: Czech statistical office
4050
3452
3066
529
1610
2301
1264
1001
1149
178 626
728
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11
ZŠ
SŠ
MŠ
VŠ
elementary
high schools
kinder gardens
college / uni
• High rate of dropouts…
• loss of discipline
• analytical thinking vs. memorizing
• loss of belief in education
• no relationship to the study programme
• economic situation of a family
• discriminating labour market
• study abroad

28. TO ALL
CORNERS OF
CZECHIA…

30. zdroj: ČSÚ

31. ...?

32. till 2012-14
Negative public
discourse about
VN
2014 > shift
> Public moods
> VN cuisine
popularity

33. till 2012-14
Negative public
discourse about
VN
2014 > shift
> Public moods
> VN cuisine
popularity
2015/2016
FIRST GRASSROOT
ACTIVITIES
APPEAR
question of
identity
sharing life
experience re-descovering
of VN culture and
language
capacity
building
search for VN
peers and
partners

34. TENDENCY TO
KEEP THE
ACTIVITIES SELF-
SUSTAINABLE
BO HAI (2017)
USING OF CREATIVE
AND EXPRESIVE WAYS
FOR QUESTINING OF
THEIR OWN
IDENTITIES,
RELATIONSHIP WITH
PARENTS AND
POSITION IN CZECH
SOCIETY
MAT GOC (2014)

35. ...and many others

36. We are heading high„
„

38. Come to belong…„ „

40. EMPOWERMENT
OF SECOND
GENERATION
VIETNAMESE

41. THEY ARE
> enthusiastic
> highly motivated
> independent
> from across the country
> well organized
> innovative and full of ideas
THEY LACK
> social capital
> external funding
> advocacy competences
> public money management
skills > fundraising
> leaders
> legal entity status

42. • We support their activities by
• Helping them to get professionalized
• Mediation contacts between them and key
stakeholders
• Collecting data
• With financial support EC AMIF (the Asylum, Migration and
Integration Fund) and IVF (the International Visegrad Fund)

43. WITH KEY
STAKEHOLDERS
MINISTRIES
MUNICIPALITIES
NGOs
STATE
ADMINISTRATION

44. Involvement of
their activities
into our
project
Support in
search for
donors/calls
Administrative
support

45. BC Active
Citizens
worhops

47. Research and
analyses
Space for
dialogue

49. OUR
APPROACH
WE DO NOT TELL THEM WHAT AND
HOW TO DO.
WE ONLY HELP THEM TO BE
EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT AND NOT TO
BURN OUT.
“ “

50. LESSON
LEARNED
FINAL REMARKS

51. • Course for students of journalism
• Both university as well as students are
interested in the course
• The demand exceeds the course capacity
• Even students from other faculties are would
like to enroll the course
• Mainstream media are instrested in students‘
media outputs
• Question of the IMPACT >>> is not possible to
measure now

52. • Support of second generation Vietnamese
• We managed to interconect the key
municipalities and the Ministry of the Interior
with active young Vietnamese
• They start working together on integration
measures aiming at first generation of the
Vietnamese
• To support second generation means to help
the overall situation in cohabition of Czechs
and Vietnamese (in particularly in border
regions)

53. THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
Tereza Freidingerová, Ph.D.
tereza.freidingerova@peopleinneed.cz