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Break out Session Eastern Europeans outside their countries

Explore key issues faced by migrant populations from Eastern Europe, including legal disparities, access to services, and community integration. Discover ongoing initiatives and recommendations for transcultural approaches and policy advocacy to enhance migrant well-being.

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Break out Session Eastern Europeans outside their countries

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  1. Break out SessionEastern Europeans outside their countries Aljona Kurbatova, Igor Sobolev, Shona Schonning

  2. Key issues in the field • Migrants are not homogeneous • Two types of immigrants – unwillingly (after USSR – those who remained situated outside their “home” countries) and those who willingly leave the country • Different legal framework of various EU and non-EU countries • Poor access to services (incl treatment) because of lack of information, lack of trust.

  3. What is done already • Activities within the communities (organizing peer-to-peer approach) • Adapting the programs based on cultural and religious differences; materials in native languages • Transcultural and transnational approaches to avoid the stigmatization of individual communities – programs multilingual; using the people who are already integrated and making them to work in their community as peers

  4. Recommendations I • Involve migrant communities and make them take responsibility for their own members; avoid approaches where majority population is carrying out all the work • Transcultural approach to avoid the stigmatization of individual communities • Respecting the cultural, religious and language differences • Monitoring the results, assessing the needs • Building coalitions to provide better access to services

  5. Recommendations II • Identification and affirmation of the problem at the highest political levels • Targeted and non-homogenous approach • Advocate for adaptation of the health systems – structural change and human resources (bilingual staff, proportionality in terms of the national origin within the staff, linking the services) • Asking European governments to inquire the social and economic burden of deportation • Woking on political level between EU and non-EU countries

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