Project 4 New Neighbours
Presentation: "NEW NEIGHBOURS - Project overview" by Larry Macaulay
New Neighbours worked with public service media, community media and civil society organisations to challenge stereotypes and expose commonly held myths, placing migrant voices at the heart of discussions on migration and delivering innovative messaging to help promote the integration of migrants into local communities.
The project achieved this through the use of:
1. Documentaries produced by public service media
2. Social media-based campaigns such as #BeTheKey
3. Community media productions based on the good-practice examples of the “Spaces of Inclusion” study.
Spaces of Inclusion - An explorative study on needs of refugees and migrants in the domain of media communication and on responses by community media
Community media
4. Country reports and interviews on Media and Migration
Country report on Media and Migration - fact sheet: Italy
Interview with Adéla Jurečková, a coordinator of the Migration Awareness Programme at People in Need, a Prague-based international NGO.
New Neighbours also builds stronger links between media and community organisations. This improves the flow of information between one another and contributes to deliver the message to a wider and more diverse audience.
Through the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE), New Neighbours worked with community media to develop media formats which are both inclusive and empowering. Participants devised and shared effective approaches for intercultural and multilingual productions through workshops and trainings.
For example, in September and October 2020, three New Neighbours training workshops took place. These CMFE workshops were designed to empower more migrants and refugees, and women in particular, to produce their own media contents on community media.
The partner in Italy was Fondazione Mondinsieme, an intercultural center in the town of Reggio Emilia, an area with the highest % of migrants on the Italian territory (18% vs. a national average of 9%, with over 100 different nationalities).
As a result of the CMFE media training for migrant groups in Reggio Emilia, a multilingual storytelling podcast has been produced (ChiaccheRE) and a test phase for a local community station has started. The podcast ChiacchieRE explores what it means to “tell life stories” in different languages and sounds, from the point of view of parents, for parents, for children, nursery and kindergarten teachers and for all those who want to listen. There are multiple episodes.
With ChiacchieRE, the Mondinsieme Foundation proposes an imaginary journey, guided by the voices of parents of different origins, who have told us lullabies and songs with which they make their children fall asleep, have fun or reflect. They are intercultural natives, since they were born in Reggio Emilia to international parents.
ChiacchieRE Fabiano
ChiacchieRE Fernanda
