In this project we aim to explore the issue of refugee youth, public space and integration in Europe. We will answer important questions about the role that arts and cultural initiatives play in the lives of refugee youth and their engagements with public space.We also focus on refugee youth’s stories of home-making, their interaction with arrival structures and their negotiations of inclusion and exclusion in public spaces. In doing so, we consider refugee youth’s migration histories as well as new spaces for urban citizenship, how these emerge in the city and the role these play in European integration. We will work collaboratively and transnationally with our 10 Associate Partners to explore refugee youth’s reworking of public space and to develop more inclusive urban citizenries.

Contribution in the form of analysis of local news coverage on refugee youth.

• Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University)
• Kathrin Horschelmann (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
• Mattias de Backer (Liege)