csiadm October 13, 2021
The Erasmus Plus KA2 project “Queer Migrants” key aim is to strengthen the capacity of professionals (of the social and employment sector) in answering the needs of LGBTQI refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. This will be achieved through the objective of developing a sustainable training program that will enlighten professionals on the challenges posed by the double stigma attached to this community. The programme will give a profound insight into basic concepts related to LGBTQI people’s rights and needs, as well as the culture of the LGBTQI migrants’/refugees’ countries of origin with a view to providing personalised support and a specific methodology regarding their integration into the culture and reality of the host country.
Objectives:
• Provide professionals of the social and employment sector with actual information regarding the complex issues encountered by the LGBTQI community, special when it comes to people with migrant backgrounds.
• Educate personnel on the detrimental effect xenophobic or homo-transphobic discrimination has not only on the LGBTQI migrants but also on our community as a whole.
• Equip professionals with appropriate educational tools and material in order to be able to identify/prevent discrimination incidents and provide support to victimised individuals.
• Minimise incidents of physical and emotional harassment towards LGBTQI migrants in asylum and detention centres, resettlement centres, refugee shelters and camps, as well as
• local community.
• Decrease LGBTQI migrants’/refugees’ insecurity to disclose their LGBTQI identity out of fear of discrimination.
• Ensure a fulfilling future for older adult LGBTQI migrants, the majority of whom have lived through a lifetime of social and legal rejection as well as continuous victimisation displaying noteworthy resilience.
• Eradicate minority stress faced by the long-stigmatised LGBTQI migrant/refugee group, which has concrete negative impacts on their well-being, often leading to self-hatred, poor mental and physical health, higher rates of substances abuse or suicide attempts.
i. INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC RESEARCH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE – IARS (UK) – www.iars.org.uk
ii. EURO-NET (Italy) – www.synergy-net.info or www.euro-net.eu
iii. SYMPLEXIS (Greece) – www.symplexis.eu
iv. CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cyprus) – www.csicy.com
v. ASTIKI MH KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA HELPING HAND (Greece) – www.helping-hand.work
This publication (communication) reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. [Project number: 2020-1-UK01-KA204-079101]
