“Youth in exil : How can we receive and integrate unaccompanied minors ?”

A CNRS/Alliance Europa training, in partnership with the CENS, on the accompaniment of unaccompanied minors.

 

Faced with the crisis in the reception of exiles, including minors, teacher-researchers and professionals from the legal, educational, health and social sectors offer you a first training session aimed at providing trainees with the basic knowledge necessary to help unaccompanied minors.

This training session will cover their migratory paths, the effects of migration on health, the minors’ rights, the organization and functioning of protection systems for these groups in France, the psycho-social effects of a lack of care, and finally the challenges of intercultural communication.

Thanks to this training you will be able to

– Develop a better knowledge of the institutions in charge of the administration and reception of unaccompanied minors (MNA)

– Acquire fundamental or more specialized knowledge in the field of legal, health and socio-educational support for this public.

– Understand the logic of international mobility of young people in the South and adapt practices to the specific vulnerabilities of this audience.

The content will be delivered through interactive courses supervised by two speakers per module.

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Pedagogical Supervisors

Estelle D’Halluin

Lecturer in sociology, at the CENS at the University of Nantes, specialist in immigration policies.

Estelle d’Halluin is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Nantes. Since the 2000s, she has been carrying out research on immigration policies, combining the political sociology of law, health and mobilisation. Her empirical approach is based on archive analysis, interviews and ethnography. She is currently involved in several research programmes on asylum policies. She is a member of the ARRECO project and the EFAA programme “Exploring the frames of altruistic action. A comparative analysis of volunteers’ engagement in British and French pro-asylum charities”, funded by ESRC.

– Cooperation with Alliance Europa

Estelle is a member of the ARRECO project (The reception and resettlement of refugees in Europe: categorisation and operationalisation) and is in charge of the pedagogical aspects of in-service training (“Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants: what kind of reception?) »

JULIEN LONG

PhD student in contemporary history and sociology at the University of Nantes

Within the CRHIA laboratory (“Societies, times, territories” doctoral school), Julien Long is preparing a PhD on “Marginal Youth. Social mobilizations and informal reception of Unaccompanied Minors in Europe.” His thesis is co-supervised by Michel Catala, Professor of Contemporary History (CRHIA, University of Nantes) and Pierre Monforte, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leicester), in collaboration with Estelle d’Halluin, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (CENS, University of Nantes).

Julien Long has several activities related to his thesis. As a lecturer at the UFR of Sociology of the University of Nantes, he teaches “Methods of Investigation” (Licence 1) and “Classical Readings in Sociology” (Licence 2). He is also an associate researcher at the Policy department of the Institut Convergences Migrations, in charge of the research axis “Exile and Politics: Colonialism, Nationalism and Capitalism”. His thesis is co-financed by the research and development centre of the Energie Collective civil society. Julien participates in several action-research projects:

– Project of a reception centre for mobile young people in Nantes: project leader for la prépa solidaire des enfants nantais.

– Rivages, a European project, halfway between cinema and research, concerning the logic of hospitality in European ports.

 

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Posted on 11 March 2021