Integration work with asylum seekers

Integration work with asylum seekers for asylum seekers 2015-2016 – This was a project that hosted a variety of activities led or coordinated by Nana Blomqvist at the Faculty or Arts at Åbo Akademi University and also specifically at the psychology department. These activities started off with a party at Kåren 2015, and continued with seminars at the reception centers and a research project.

In all of these inhabitants of the reception centers themselves were active parts in the projects. Funded by Svenska Akademin, Oskar Öflunds stiftelse, 7e mars, and the Faculty of Arts, Theology and Psychology. Working language English, Arabic, Kurdish, Somalian, Dari and Persian.

These activities were arranged during the years 2015-2016 and included an array of activities from parties, seminars, consultancy and a research project in cooperation with a wide array of organizations and partners. From 2016 onwards Nana decide to work with the patriarchal aspects of the societal structures in the countries of origin of many of the asylum seekers, and decided to focus on women as the target group for the different activities.