Dialog Processes

The dialogue processes in FluEqual aimed at the locals in the project regions and had the set goal, next to promoting public service employment, to nourish the peaceful, intercultural cohabitation in the respective regions. The conscious embedding of the activities for occupational integration in processes of societal integration aims at sustainable advancement of a holistic integration.

 

The dialogue processes had different starting points: on the one hand, it was a matter of supporting the dialogue about cohabitation; on the other hand it was a matter of promoting encounter as well as to initiate a dialogue between natives and asylum seekers. Refugees don’t differ from other migrants in terms of their status in Austria after their successful acceptance of asylum. This is why the dialogue processes involved the thematic spectrum integration and cohabitation with all humans of non-Austrian origins.

 

Central initial point for the dialogue processes was the exhibition “My Austria” of the Platform for Human Rights and the Catholic Action Salzburg. The exhibition, which had as a cause the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Austria, was centring migrant’s issues. As a supporting programme around the exhibition, talks, events and encounter between natives, asylum seekers and migrants, as well as informational events with referees of different origins, took place.

 

In the dialogue events it was attempted to draw a differentiated image of migrant’s realities, to open one’s view for asylum seeker’s life circumstances and to create space for encounters.