Anne Weibert
ABSTRACT
A sustainable integration of migrants is an important societal task, touching numerous parts of everyday life. Developed as a socio-technical concept, intercultural computer clubs following the 'come_IN' approach are apt to provide a major contribution here. The aim is twofold: via collaboration in computer-based project work in the clubs, its participants a) establish and strengthen relationships in the intercultural neighborhood they now live in, and b) acquire computer skills that may broaden and ease their access to the job market as well as help them to keep up a remote relationship with their respective home countries. A qualitative evaluation study reveals the chances and limitations of this concept.
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- "All of a sudden we had this dialogue...": intercultural computer clubs' contribution to sustainable integration
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