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Intercultural Competence
All the projects in SEARCH and SEARCH II are concerned with providing drug prevention for people who have come from other countries. Many will even have come from different cultural backgrounds. Therefore the activities were based on a concept known in Europe as intercultural addiction care or intercultural competence.
In using intercultural competence as a basis for drug prevention, the following requirements should be met:
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Implement the measures as soon as possible after the refugees, asylum seekers and illegal migrants have arrived in the reception country |
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The prevention measures should be design on a long-term basis |
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Aims and methods should be used that are culturally sensitive and respectful |
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It should be based on profound knowledge of the respective native cultures. In particular, the prevention concepts must take culturally specific protection factors into consideration |
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Always check whether the methods used suit the cultural background of the migrants. Refugees often come from regions where the person trying to teach something counts more than the underlying concept they are teaching, i.e. the relational level is more important then the subject or method level |
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Special attention needs to be paid to the double taboo associated with addiction problems. Firstly, such problems are often not openly spoken about in the refugees’ native countries. Secondly, migrants frequently fear that revealing their addiction problem could place their residential status in the reception country at risk |
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Carry out integration work. Existing resources in the local communities should be used and access improved through networking |
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A participative approach should be taken. Those targeted by the prevention programmes should be involved in planning and conducting the activities, without be forced, however, to adopt the cultural norms of the reception country |
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The parental skills of the parents must be improved |
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Special measures must be firmly established for migrants in schools, assuming, of course, that migrant children are at all allowed to attend school in the reception country |
Weitere Informationen zu den Projekten erhalten Sie bei:
Wolfgang Rometsch
Tel.: 0251 591 4710
Fax: 0251 591 5499
E-Mail: wolfgang.rometsch@lwl.org
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