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Break out Session Eastern Europeans outside their countries. Aljona Kurbatova, Igor Sobolev, Shona Schonning. Key issues in the field. Migrants are not homogeneous
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Break out SessionEastern Europeans outside their countries Aljona Kurbatova, Igor Sobolev, Shona Schonning
Key issues in the field • Migrants are not homogeneous • Two types of immigrants – unwillingly (after USSR – those who remained situated outside their “home” countries) and those who willingly leave the country • Different legal framework of various EU and non-EU countries • Poor access to services (incl treatment) because of lack of information, lack of trust.
What is done already • Activities within the communities (organizing peer-to-peer approach) • Adapting the programs based on cultural and religious differences; materials in native languages • Transcultural and transnational approaches to avoid the stigmatization of individual communities – programs multilingual; using the people who are already integrated and making them to work in their community as peers
Recommendations I • Involve migrant communities and make them take responsibility for their own members; avoid approaches where majority population is carrying out all the work • Transcultural approach to avoid the stigmatization of individual communities • Respecting the cultural, religious and language differences • Monitoring the results, assessing the needs • Building coalitions to provide better access to services
Recommendations II • Identification and affirmation of the problem at the highest political levels • Targeted and non-homogenous approach • Advocate for adaptation of the health systems – structural change and human resources (bilingual staff, proportionality in terms of the national origin within the staff, linking the services) • Asking European governments to inquire the social and economic burden of deportation • Woking on political level between EU and non-EU countries