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The MELLIE Project: Intercultural Collaborative Storytelling
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Abstract This paper accounts for the MELLIE Project (Migrant English Language, Literacy and Intercultural Education), a collaborative storytelling project involving asylum seekers and refugees living in Direct Provision (DP) and volunteer students and staff from Dublin City University. The project was design... view more
This paper accounts for the MELLIE Project (Migrant English Language, Literacy and Intercultural Education), a collaborative storytelling project involving asylum seekers and refugees living in Direct Provision (DP) and volunteer students and staff from Dublin City University. The project was designed to enhance the DP residents' English language as well as to overcome their social isolation and lack of contact with the local community, and to also develop greater intercultural awareness and understanding on both sides. This paper explores the rationale and objectives of the project.... view less
Keywords
asylum seeker; refugee; language acquisition; English language; integration; intercultural communication; Ireland
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
Direct Provision; Mellie Project; Narratives; Political refugees; Storytelling
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 123-133
Journal
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 4 (2019) 2
ISSN
2009-8278
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0