Breaking Barriers: Empowering Migrant Youth for Inclusive Education in Mexico
Welcome to issue #44?of?Changing Stories -?MAGENTA's monthly round-up of all that is interesting, inspiring and innovative from the world of Social and Behavioural Change?(SBC).
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Tackling stigma and discrimination of migrant children and adolescents to promote their inclusion to the education system in Mexico
Project Overview: The "Inclusive Education for Migrant Children and Adolescents" project was a collaborative effort involving UNICEF, GIZ, AMEXCID, and SEP, designed to tackle the issue of limited education access for migrant youth in Mexico. Priority states, including Baja California, Puebla, Chiapas, and Chihuahua, were the focal points due to their pressing need for inclusive education.
The project aimed to achieve the following objectives:
1. Enhance Policy Knowledge: Improve understanding of the Normative of Access and School Control, which outlines educational staff's responsibilities for ensuring equality and inclusion regardless of national origin. 2. Promote Welcoming Environments: Encourage welcoming attitudes and practices towards migrant children and adolescents, particularly among teachers and school principals. 3. Raise Awareness: Sensitize migrant youth and caregivers about the mandatory nature and significance of education. 4. Mobilize Authorities: Rally authorities and decision-makers within SEP and public education secretariats in priority states to design and implement adapted public policies and budgets, with effective and coordinated implementation mechanisms. Join us as we navigate through this transformative journey, empowering migrant youth and fostering inclusive education. Together, we break down barriers for a brighter future.
The Culture of Mexican Migration: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Many field investigators have observed the evolution of a "culture of migration" in certain Mexican communities characterized by a high rate of out-migration to the U.S. Within such communities, international migration becomes so deeply rooted that the prospect of transnational movement becomes normative: young people "expect" to live and work in the U.S. at some point in their lives. Males, especially, come to see migration as a normal part of the life course, representing a marker of the transition to manhood, in addition to being a widely accepted vehicle for economic mobility. International migration is cultural in the sense that the aspiration to migrate is transmitted across generations and between people through social networks. In this article, we develop a formal theory of the culture of migration and test it using a special data set collected by the first author as well as data from the Mexican Migration Project. We show that children from families involved in U.S. migration are more likely to aspire to live and work in the U.S. and that these aspirations, in turn, influence their behaviour, lowering the odds that they will continue in school, and raising the odds of their eventual out-migration to the U.S.
Examining online social behaviour changes after migration
With fast urbanization and decreasing transportation costs, migration has become more common. Previous studies have shown the important role of social networks in the process of migration, but little is known about the effect of migration on social networks. To fill the research gap, this study examines the effect of migration on online?social behaviours?(in terms of network evolution and social interaction), as well as the moderating effect of migrants' characteristics. We collected a four-month big dataset with 2.29 million records from one of the largest?online social networks?in China. We apply the propensity score matching combined with the difference-in-differences method to compare online social behaviour changes after migration. Our results show that, for network evolution behaviour, migration positively impacts the number of tie formations, but non-significantly impacts the number of tie decay; for social interaction behaviour, migration increases the number of contacts but decreases the number of messages. We also find some moderating effects of migrants’ characteristics, including gender, age, and degree. This study provides big data empirical evidence and some new insights into our understanding of the impact of migration on online social network behaviour.
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Mexican school students’ perceptions of inclusion: A brief report on students’ social inclusion, emotional well-being, and academic self-concept at school
With the increasing student diversity, inclusive education has only become more relevant. Given that inclusive education is considered as the most effective approach to improve quality of education and promote equity and social cohesion, research has focused on examining the facilitators and barriers of meaningful inclusive education as well as the effectiveness of inclusive education on students’ academic outcomes. In contrast, far less attention has been paid to explore students’ non-achievement outcomes, such as their socio-emotional development. Therefore, this brief report presents the results of a small-scale exploratory study which examines Mexican students’ perceptions regarding their social inclusion, emotional well-being, and academic self-concept. A total of 101 Mexican students were included in the sample. Nonparametric tests such as Chi-square goodness of fit, Mann–Whitney U and Dunn’s tests were conducted to analyze the data. Overall, results show that students in general perceive themselves included at school, however, students attending private schools experience less emotional well-being. Implications of the results as well as further lines of research are discussed.
Applying behavioural insights to Support Immigrant Integration and social cohesion
Policymakers are looking for ways to help newcomers settle in quickly and bridge social divides by fostering connections among diverse groups, both because immigration is increasing and because of concerns over anti-immigrant sentiment. Among the most promising new tools to reinvigorate integration policy is behavioural insights, an interdisciplinary, evidence-based approach that draws on findings and methods from behavioural economics, psychology, anthropology, and other fields. This approach aims to design policies and interventions based on a more realistic model of human behaviour to encourage people to make better choices for themselves and the societies in which they live.
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