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Report – Study Visit Slovenia
11.09-15.09.201711.09.17
UNICEF; One UNICEF refugee and Presentation of role and program of One UNICEF refugee and migrant response;
migrant response (Berina
• presentation of statistic fact s; emphasis the importance of children. Increase of children refugees
Arslanagić Ibisević; Romana
(2008: 1/5; 2016: 1/3)
Zidar)
• Slovenia Sept. 2017: 740 refugees and migrants, 30% children. Most of the children leave the
country before the final decision.
• problems, among other things, limited education and violence exprerience by the children (Italy
report: 75% of the children experienced some violence, exploitation, abuse..)
• Unicef response 2016/17; transit emergency services (reception, accommodation, registration);
integrated services (psychosocial. Support, recreational activities, pediatric services, integration
activities. Child Protection standards for social protection professionals.
• action plan 2017/18: social work, labour focus, equal rights and family support services
SKUHNA, Zavod global (Teja Kuk) • presentation of integration employee project *
• independent restaurant with open kitchen with people from global south
• offer: cooking lessons, catering, restaurant and music events
• offer for migrants and refugees opportunities for a job
• 6 people are working on halftime; it is difficult to find people, because people who would work
would lose their support.
• problems of finance and fluctuation
• people are asked for their interests and the things they can do the best; the activities follows the
interests and the strength• the project was supported from 2012-2015, now it is independent
Institute of the Republic of • Presentation of school inclusion;
Slovenia for Vocational
• Inclusive educational system: migrants and refugees participate in the regular classes: two stage
Education and Training;
Ministry of Education, Science model: 2-3 supplement classes in Slovenian language for 3-4 months + after school activities.
and Sport and VET center; • According to the child convention, primary education is opened to every child (with /without
(Barbara Velkov; Barbara status)
Velkov Rozman; Mija Javornik ;
Anton Baloh) • Peer mentoring
Association HUMANITAS ‘’In the Theater with interaction. At the beginning guests get a personal true story about one refugee to read
eye of refugee’’ (Manca Šetinc and during the theater play they are supposed to empathize to this character. The story is about
Vernik) refugees from different countries wanting to come from Turkey to Greek and then to Germany
/Sweden with the help of trafficers. After the theater there is space to share the opinion and to ask
question. Two of the theater participants tell their personal stories of their escape- and asylum
experiences.
Ambassada Rog (meeting point) • A community center run by refugees and activists, squatters, artists, students, and workers. A place *
for migrants and refugees to eat, make sports activities, sit together, support each other, cut hair,
make music. The most important thing, which offers Rog, is the social interaction and that people do
have a place to come. The work includes also organizing, public events, educational programs, social
and legal aid. The project is not financed officially and only works with donations. Thus they are
independent from „Project criterias“ and certain obligations. The project exist since 11 years.
12.09.17
Primary school Livada , • Best practice school, which got from problematic school to best practise school.
Integration of minors in school
• Supplement classes before the school starts:
system
• Project: photos of famous migrant people, who reached a lot in their lives despite their role asmigrants/refugees.
Visit Asylum center in Logatec ; • Presentation of Government Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Care and Integration of
(Tina Kotar) Migrants
• Work together with unicef, and companies
• 217 (of 560) of the relocation program; many refugees stay only for 3-4 days
• not enough accommodation for everybody
• orientation program for 3 months
13.09.17
Slovenian Philanthropy ; Primož • Presentation of different project, cultural mediators, inclusion and integration
Jamšek)
• Exists since 1992; as response of the conflict in Yugoslavia
• 52 employees, 8 units
• main activity: promotion of volunteering
• informing and advocacy networking
• operate in areas where national institutions are not/yet active
• aid to refugees, children and young migrants
• network of about 1400 civil society , volunteering and huminitarian organisation (one of the
biggest in Slovenia)
• implementation of different programs:
- promotion of health clinic for people without health insurance (on the basis of volunteer doctors.)
- migration: social integration, support for volunteers, counceling and psych. Support advocacy
- orientation programs for relocated people from Greece and Italy: Slovenian language, paper work
and daily living.- 8 NGOs for migrants/refugees health in 11 countries program
- Festival of Migrants films
- Fight against human traffic.
Association ODNOS; Projects of • Care for people with international protection
integration (Franci Jazbec)
• 3 years programs: help in integration process (flat search, learning, health)
• program: skills to work: a digital platform for connection
Worker‘s counselling (Goran • Presentation of work of workers counseling office – concrete case study *
Lukič )
• 500 members (depending of their status they pay 3-8 Euro)
• help working people in a “bad situation” (wages, contracts, accidents ...); have conctracts with a
lawyer
• many mobile workers
Cene Štupar - language courses; For pupils aged 15 years and over, in different settings
(Alida Zagorc Šuligoj; Peter • NVQ
Seljak )
• Intercultural centre
• Language centres
• Individual PC-training
• Counselling centre for support (this is financed by Ministry of Education and EU social funds.
Different courses are also held in Slovenian, depending on the employment status of the migrant.
Usually, every migrant entering Slovenia receives 60 hours free courses (with a permission to stay for
one year). After the person has been in Slovenia for a year, there are another 120 hours (with a five-
year permission to stay). Everyone can receive a maximum of 260 hours of courses paid for.Different courses are sponsored by different agencies.
Every month a total of 15 courses with different levels are starting, at different times of the day, to
suit all preferences of the migrants.
The “rules” which the Ministry has in order to finance the courses: a minimum of 10 (and maximum
of 15) people should attend a course. The funding from the Ministry is per hour of every course
taken place, not according to attendance numbers.
Usually the exam at the end would cost the participants 120,- €. If, however, the course has been
attended at least 80 % of the time, the exam is paid for by the administrative office. This offers the
incentive to show up for courses.
The aim of the classes is to teach migrants not only the language, but also about history, culture and
“the system”.
Interesting aspect of the language school:
The teachers are given specific training, e.g. they receive a special lesson in Arabic language, in order
to “teach” them how a pupil in their class must feel like. This, they call “teach the teachers”
Institute for African studies ; • Main projects: *
(Representative of IAS);
- asylum center (open every day, also Sundays and on holidays)
– informing about human traffic
– inter. Projects: monitoring methods and trainings for people working with the target group
Multilingual health Presentation Note: Ursula was a member of the visiting team of professionals in the study visit in Croatia.
of multilingual Aid for Better
Communication in Healthcare. Ursula starts provocatively with the words: “Integration is just a word”. Integration, according to her, is
all about the rights people have and the access to services they need.
(Ursula Lipovec Cebron) Refugees and migrants experience constant obstacles to access health care:
• financial
• language• being denied healthcare
• only allowed emergency care
It is important to also introduce healthcare professionals to cultural dimensions, such as
• religious aspects
• how illness is perceived in different countries
• what does family mean
• how death is dealt with
EU-wide teams have developed a self-assessment-test for healthcare organisations, to see how
discriminative they might actually be towards vulnerable groups and migrants (can be downloaded as
pdf, search criteria: Antonio Chiarenza).
14.09.17
Assotiation UP; Jesenice A former super market, now transformed in a community centre, open to all members of the
Presentation of association and community, including migrants. They call themselves the “House of Happiness”. The leading instigator,
their work on integration in Faila, is well known in the Jesenice city and district for her support towards the integration of migrants.
She has been present in many TV talk groups and is regularly being interviewed by press. The House of
Jesenice (Jesenice, Faila Pašić
Happiness has formerly been a supermarket, that has been closed down. The council then offered the
Bišić) premises to the charitable organization. They open their house from 10am to 6pm. A total of 30
volunteers of all nationalities work there.
Their leading motto when it comes to the integration of migrants is: “Nothing about us without us”.
There are different projects that take place in the house, e.g. one called “Open Hands”, which is a
webstore selling unique handmade products, which are manufactured by attendees of the project.
Faila tells us that they are very popular in the community, she thinks it is because she and the rest of
the volunteers as well as the visitors to the house are original and authentic.
Financial support comes from the community (donors and sometimes also volunteers) and several EU-
level fundings.
25% of all attendees of the House of Happiness are refugees, who are planning to stay in Slovenia.Slovenia has special jurisdiction: everyone, who is on social support and is volunteering for community
projects regularly, will get another 90,- € per month from the state, in addition to their “normal” rate
of social pay. Therefore the recruitment of volunteers for such social projects is easier than it seems in
other EU-member countries.
Dormitory Postojna Presentation At present 14 unaccompanied minors live here (with a maximum capacity of 28). In the past year a
of dormitory total of about 100 children have passed through. The building has various uses: accommodation for
school children as well as a hostel and on the upper floors the dormitory for unaccompanied minors.
Currently there are 2 floors in use, one for boys who have been in Slovenia in the same dormitory for
the past year, and the second corridor is for “passers-through”. The past has shown that even with
unaccompanied minors, a vast majority are only passing through the country, rather than staying in
Slovenia.
Most of the boys currently living in the dormitory are from Afghanistan. The “old” boys are actually
getting settled in their dorm, they go to school in the mornings, in the afternoon returning to the
dorm, and thankfully also mixing with other Slovenian children from the floors below.
The social workers of the project define various areas of integration:
• social (language, accommodation)
• health (education, prevention, hygiene, sex education)
• education (school system explanation, reading and writing)
• work (preparing the boys for potential futures and the prospect of a work routine)
• economic aspects (finances, teaching them the value and cost of things, budgeting)
• cultural (accepting the new culture in Slovenia, but also giving room for “old” traditions and
routines, going on trips, going to museums).
The cooperation with other communal and charitable organisations and the community as such is
one very important aspect of the team. There have in the past already been two protests in town
against the dorm.
The main problems when working with unaccompanied minors:
• missing status (e.g. lack of motivation and integration)
• children growing up (a child has different needs and questions than a teenager or a young adult)
• worries about families (either in their home countries or in other EU-countries, high bureaucraticchallenges for reunification)
• losing the identity (whereas in their country they had a role, a certain status, in Slovenia they are
“merely” considered migrants)
• adapting to rules and routines of the new life
• pressures from outside (social media, contact with strangers)
The project uses a soft approach (e.g. rather than forcing some children to do something, the soft
approach could mean starting an activity with some kids, because more often than not others will
join.
15.09.17
Presentation of Syrian dance and Two young men show us dances of their home country, and afterwards stay for an introduction and
open talk about example of short discussion.
integration process (Abood
Orfahly; Mohamad Orfahly)
Legal representative for The areas of responsibility of a legal representative are:
unaccompanied children and • health protection
adolescents; Presentation of • education
work of legal representative as • protection of property and financial rights
• representation in proceedings for international protection
an integration assistant (Melita
• protection of rights in reception
Beber)
Every legal representative needs an official license, which is issued for a period of 5 years.
The mission should be to accompany children in a better tomorrow, by using the principle of child’s
participation in decision-making-processes.
At present Slovenia has a total of 80 to 90 legal representatives, however, only 7 to 8 are “active”
TBK Khun kao ; Ljubljana; Sport Migrant children are invited to train with other children during normal training hours in the gym. This
integration of refugees facilitates the learning of the new language in a whole different context.
Positive effect of sports: it teaches us that we are all the same.
Martial arts build self-confidence, makes productive use of spare-time and trains respect, routine and
discipline. Therefore promoting a healthy lifestyle without drugs or alcohol.
Challenge here is, of course, the financial restrictions of migrants and the need for the gym to still be a
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