Migrants, minorities and second generation young people represent one of our main targets of intervention.
Within the Third Countries Integration European Fund, we’ve been working in several national projects involving immigrants, aimed at their social integration, linguistic inclusion, and professional integration throughout various activities such as: action-research, field research, thematic surveys, participative methods of involvement, consultancy groups, focus groups, peer research, field interviews and video documentation.
The specific activity carried out in favour of migrants in Italy consists of four types of interventions:
1. Community mediation and development activities for improving social cohesion processes, integration and civic participation and for the promotion of individual identity and empowerment. This type of intervention was carried out in collaboration with Local Territorial Entities, subjects of the third sector active in the offer of social and socio-educational services.
2. Consultancy and accompanying activities for system actions aimed at migrants, aimed at developing new services, modelling services, improving access for migrants to existing services in the social welfare, socio-health, educational and bureaucratic-administrative fields. This type of intervention was carried out in collaboration with Local Authorities, Healthcare Organizations, third sector subjects active in the provision of social and socio-educational services.
3. Activities of public art and storytelling as a tool for socio-cultural integration: Codici is experienced in the analysis of social processes and develops engagement and intervention strategies with the target of young Italians and foreigners using the tools and communication channels of the arts visual (video reportage with participatory approach), of the media (website, webdocumentary, app for smart phones) and of social networks (Facebook, blog), with the aim of gathering and telling in a participatory and as widely as possible way the stories of life and reference social contexts. Several projects of Codici involved strategies and tools of public art and visual arts, social media and collective storytelling aimed at the integration of third-country nationals and social cohesion, through the European funds for the integration of third-country nationals (FEI 2007-2013, FAMI 2014-2020).
4. Monitoring and evaluation of projects through the use of own methodologies for evaluative research and participatory methodologies. Various interventions have been made in projects aimed at foreign users, both within the framework of the European Fund for the integration of Third Country Nationals, and on the commission of foundations such as Cariplo and Compagnia di San Paolo, concerning the themes of integration policies, community welfare, social inclusion.