Ukrainian refugees and local administration came together in Dahme-Spreewald to exchange experiences, address shared challenges, and explore practical solutions for integration. Migration Matters contributed with an interactive workshop and will carry these insights forward into future work.
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Who gets to call themselves German?
In a recent workshop with 9th graders in Berlin, we explored how young people understand identity, belonging, and migration. What began with simple associations — passports, language, even stereotypes — quickly developed into a deeper conversation about history, discrimination, and the power to define who belongs.
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Members of the Migration Matters team joined the “Climate Change-Induced Migration” conference at Evangelische Akademie Loccum to explore how climate change shapes human mobility — and how better storytelling and communication can deepen public understanding of this complex relationship.
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Migration Matters launched its new Film & Talk Series on October 30 with an evening dedicated to the theme LEAVING. Through the award-winning documentary The Mind Game about a young Afghan’s journey to Belgium, and insights from experts and practitioners, the event explored the realities of flight, resilience, and how we discuss migration today.
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In April 2024, participants from our Erasmus+ Youth Project “Digital Storytelling for Active Citizenship: Empowering Youth Through Migration Narratives” gathered in Berlin for a hands-on workshop exploring media techniques such as interviewing, filming, and editing.
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In late February, Migration Matters held a ‘Mediatization of Migration’ workshop at Radboud University. Thirty students explored how media framing affects perceptions of migration and migrants. Highlighting diverse perspectives and storytelling formats, the workshop aimed to equip students with tools to create counter-narratives and foster inclusive dialogue.
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In February 2024, we conducted a media training aimed at amplifying the voices of forcibly displaced people in the media. Organized by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), this event brought together 20 CSOs from around the world to develop new communication and advocacy tools.
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Migration Matters together with CERC Migration led an interactive session on multimedia storytelling and alternative modes of knowledge production at the 20th annual IMISCOE conference in July 2023.
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Migration Matters led a seminar on cross-disciplinary practices in communicating migration research for students from the University of Johannesburg’s Sociology department as part of their Digital Migration Studies seminar series.
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Migration Matters led a film screening and discussion with academics and students at Uppsala University on the potential of digital storytelling for shifting migration narratives and communicating migration research.
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At IL KINO Berlin, we celebrated the culmination of our three-year ‘I Am European’ project with engaging film screenings and a dynamic panel discussion. Commemorating the 5th anniversary of our ‘Rethinking Us & Them’ series, a popular MOOC on the iversity platform, we explored integration and diversity in Germany today. The evening featured insightful screenings from our series and a panel with speakers like Hafiza Hamoud, Chiponda Chimbelu, Mine Nang, and Dr. Jihad Alabdullah, moderated by Sophia Burton
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Young journalists from Poland and Germany attended a four-day workshop in Berlin on ethical reporting of migration and diversity. Organized by Migration Matters and the Center for Citizenship Education under the I Am European (IAE) project, the event emphasized the importance of ethical journalism and fostered collaboration among young journalists.
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