GEMILLI · Gender, Migration and Illiteracy. Policy and Practice for Social Integration.
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-04-01 → 2023-04-09
- EU contribution
- €160,932
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Gender, Migration and Illiteracy. Policy and Practice for Social Integration.
GEMILLI project aims to analyse the intersections of gender, migration and illiteracy in contemporary European societies. Adults’ absolute illiteracy is somewhat an invisible phenomenon. Gender is a structuring dimension of illiteracy, with women representing most of the the world’s illiterate population. This disproportion lies in social constructions that give men and women different attributions, associated with distinct expectations and investments in education during childhood and reproduced in adult life. The migration experience activates different types of illiteracies, not only by disrupting the educational paths of a significant number of individuals, but also by imposing new learnings. In Europe, the last decades have shown changing trends in migration fluxes and in the gender and education composition of the migrant population: women have a more balanced presence in today’s international migration, with a wide range of motivations to migrate; and some evidence supports the increasing influxes of migrants from countries with high illiteracy rates. However, the debate on the intersections of gender, migration, illiteracy and its implications for integration is still scarce. The existing knowledge is mostly dispersed and fragmented, and a comprehensive and integrated analytical framework is still lacking. The main objectives of the research are to analyse a) the main country-differences regarding the social integration of migrant women with low literacy levels; b) the nature, characteristics and functioning of the local organisations working directly with migrant women with low literacy levels and in charge of training, alphabetisation, language learning, and social integration actions; c) the impacts of the intersections of gender, migration and illiteracy for the life trajectories of women.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
GEMILLI – Gender, Migration and Illiteracy. Policy and Practice for Social Integration aims to analyse the intersections of gender, migration and illiteracy in contemporary European societies, and to give evidence on policy and practice developments for the social integration of migrant women with low literacy in Europe. Building on the existing literature and research evidence, GEMILLI proposes an intersectional, comprehensive and integrated approach, able to advance knowledge further and to inform social policy in the context of the European Union.Considering the present trends of international migration in Europe and the political and scientific challenges brought by the so-called migration crisis and by the increasing inflows of migrants from countries with high illiteracy, this project proposes a comparative, cross-country and multi-scope analysis of policy and practice between old and new immigration countries, taking Spain and France as case studies. GEMILLI will give evidence on a) the main country-differences regarding the social integration of migrant women with low literacy levels; b) the nature, characteristics and functioning of the local organisations working directly with migrant women with low literacy levels and in charge of training, alphabetisation, language learning, and social integration actions; c) the impacts of the intersections of gender, migration and illiteracy for the life trajectories of women. The research design contemplates both the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of the phenomenon and considers macro (institutional/policy), meso (organisation/practice) and micro (individuals/biographies) levels of analysis. It uses a mix-method methodology, combining complementary research strategies such as policy and institutional analysis, organisational case studies and life stories. The project foresees two short-visits for fieldwork in local organisations in the France and in Spain, and a Secondment in The Council of Europe.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · MadridCoordinatorSpain
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union