Enhancing Digital Participation Amongst Refugee and Migrant Background Youth – Showcase and Workshop

What is the role of digital participation for the work, study and wellbeing of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds? How can organisations, governments and industry better engage with young people to support their digital participation? This hybrid showcase will present findings from Enhancing Digital Participation Amongst Refugee and Migrant Background Youth, a VicHealth-funded collaborative project between Deakin University, Western Sydney University and The Centre for Multicultural Youth (all members of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies). The project investigates what helps and hinders the digital participation of young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, focusing on how their use of technology impacts their work, study, connection, and wellbeing. This workshop will be an opportunity for key stakeholders and young people themselves to think about how organisations can engage with young people to support their digital participation; how this engagement can be sustained and youth-centred; and what’s already working when it comes to youth digital engagement. This event will showcase the study’s key findings and learnings from its youth-designed initiatives, including an interactive session facilitated by young people who have led these initiatives.

To find out more about the project, please visit: https://www.crisconsortium.org/refugee-migrant-digital-participation

Speaker details

• Professor Anita Harris, Research Professor, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin and Research Stream Co-Lead, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.
• Professor Amanda Third, Professorial Research Fellow/Co-Director, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University and Research Stream Co-Lead, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.
• Professor Philippa Collin, Professorial Research Fellow/Co-Director, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University
• Dr Kim Lam. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation, Deakin University. Stream Coordinator Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
• Dr Sherene Idriss, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University.
• Louisa Welland, Research Officer, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University
• Robiel Abraham, Youth-led initiative lead and CEO, African Youth Initiative
• Navjot Kaur, Youth-led initiative coordinator
• Aliet Agany, Youth-led initiative coordinator
• Ayesha Ali, Youth-led initiative coordinator

This hybrid free event is open to all, but registration is required.

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