Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: migración y acogida

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As in previous decades, demographic, financial and market forces continue to drive the increased migration inflows to recipient countries. Humanitarian reasons are, in turn, currently becoming the main impetus for migrants, who oftentimes flee situations of extreme vulnerability and distress in their countries of origin. The uprooting caused by forced migration must be met with efforts to support migrants’ emotional regrounding in host communities. Such integration greatly depends on social and economic inclusion, especially through access to quality employment opportunities. This paper examines contributions from previous research exploring a range of literacies aimed at securing...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia intercultural

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This article addresses visual literacy as a crucial competence for fostering intercultural literacy and intercultural dialogue. Visual literacy has been defined as a combination of skills needed to interpret the meaning of images, latent reasons behind their making and their impact on audiences. Individuals need to develop such skills to critically read the ‘vocabulary’ (content) and ‘grammar’ (composition) of images they are constantly flooded with to fully understand and appreciate the underlying meaning of visual representations of their own culture and other cultures, as well as the people belonging to different cultural groups. The Council of Europe’s Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media (AIEVM) has been designed to promote interculturality through the reflection on the other, as portrayed in visuals. By...

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