ESRC Festival of Social Science Schools Event

Published: 1 September 2011

This event brings together secondary schoolchildren from Central and East European (CEE) migrant communities and local Scottish children from schools across Glasgow to discuss their experiences. 19 March 2010

ESRC Festival of Social Science Schools Event: 'Migration, identity and integration: new and old communities in Glasgow'

This event brings together secondary schoolchildren from Central and East European (CEE) migrant communities and local Scottish children from schools across Glasgow to discuss their experiences. We also aim to ascertain if there are specific gendered aspects to the experience of migrant communities.

We hope that the CEE and Scottish schoolchildren will benefit from exploring their commonalities/differences and in doing so hope to foster a greater understanding between these communities. We also hope that the schoolchildren will benefit from being in a University environment and being introduced to social sciences / area studies research and be encouraged to think seriously about applying to University to study these subjects.

The event should help to break down barriers across the various CEE migrant communities and also between these and the Scottish schoolchildren and will explore the gendered aspects of migrant schoolchildren’s experiences.

19 March, 2010
Seminar Room 3 (The Gannochy), Wolfson Medical School Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ


First published: 1 September 2011