Indicator history

Close Window

Are there positive initiatives to improve/support poor educational provision for migrant and minority groups?

Code:
RED79
Key Area:
Education
Strand(s):
Discrimination, Equality
20/02/2012 - 18:33
Short Answer

Yes.

Qualitative Info

The Integrated Action Programme for the social integration of Roma launched in 2002 includes education as one of its goals. However, more measures appear to be necessary, inter alia, within the framework of this programme to address the problems faced by Roma in education. An Inter-Ministerial Committee within the Ministry of Interior coordinates the activities of all relevant ministries in the implementation of the Integrated Action Programme for the social integration of Roma.

The Greek authorities continue to implement the four-phase project entitled “Education of Muslim Children”, the last phase being implemented from 2010 to 2013. Within this project books for students and for teachers used in the Greek-speaking programme in minority primary schools have been produced. In addition, in the 2007-2008 school year, the Greek authorities introduced Turkish as a second language, as an optional subject, in high schools.

As far as initiatives for the support of migrant students, reception classes and support classes  in primary and secondary education have been established since 1999 (Ministerial Decision 10/20/Γ1/708/7-9-1999). From 1996 (Law 2413/1996) a legislative framework for intercultural education has been established. So far, there are in Greece only 26 Intercultural schools, of which 13 are primary schools, 9 junior high schools and 4 are senior high schools, and the curriculum is not substantially different from the mainstream one (see Halkias, A., Parsanoglou D. and Golfinopoulos, Y. (2011) "Girls of Migrant Background in Greece: Conflicting Loyalties and Troubling Hierarchies", in The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS), Young Nigrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting Integration and Mutual Understanding through Dialogue and Exchange, University of Nicosia Press).

Groups affected/interested Migrants, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities
Type (R/D) Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Education
External Url http://hudoc.ecri.coe.int/XMLEcri/ENGLISH/Cycle_04/04_CbC_eng/GRC-CbC-IV-2009-031-ENG.pdf; http://www.museduc.gr/index.php; http://www.medinstgenderstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Integration_of_young_migrant_women_2011.pdf
Situation(s)
Library