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Supplemental Material for Workers’ individual and dyadic coping with the COVID-19 health emergency: A cross cultural study by Silvia Donato, Agostino Brugnera, Roberta Adorni, Sara Molgora, Eleonora Reverberi, Claudia Manzi, Maria Angeli, Anna Bagirova, Veronica Benet-Martinez, Liberato Camilleri, Frances Camilleri-Cassar, Evi Hatzivarnava Kazasi, Gerardo Meil, Maria Symeonaki, Ayça Aksu, Karina Batthyany, Ruta Brazienė, Natalia Genta, Annick Masselot and Suzy Morrissey in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Orientadores: Lucia Eustáchio Fonseca Ribeiro, Luise Weiss Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes Resumo: A presente dissertação aborda meu processo criativo na busca pela construção de uma poética própria utilizando o hibridismo entre as linguagens escrita, desenho e livro de artista nas artes visuais. A feitura de diversos trabalhos e estudos e a experimentação com soluções estéticas variadas e diferentes materiais, unidas à pesquisa de referências na Arte Contemporânea, fizeram parte desse percurso de criação e descoberta. No início meu foco era praticamente apenas no elemento gráfico da escrita; contudo, na medida em que a pesquisa se ampliou minha percepção acerca desse elemento se desenvolveu e passei a abordar outras faces da escrita em minha produção, passando a explorar a função poética das palavras por meio de sua denotação e da redação e apropriação de textos Abstract: The present master's degree dissertation addresses my creative process in the search for the construction of my own poetics, using the hybridism between various languages such as writing, drawing, and artist's book. The make of several art works and studies, experimentation with various aesthetic solutions and different materials, joined to the reference's research in the contemporary art, were part of this course of creation and discovering. In the beginning my focus was only the writing graphic aspect, nevertheless, as my research grew my perception on the subject developed and I started to address also other constituents of the written language in my art production, exploring the poetic function of the words by way of their meaning, and by writing texts and appropriating from texts by other authors Mestrado Artes Visuais Mestra em Artes Visuais

This policy brief will provide an overview of cross-cutting trends in asylum and refugee accommodation governance across the localities of Malmö and Eslöv (Sweden), Cosenza and Catanzaro (Italy), Nicosia (Cyprus) and Glasgow (Scotland). Specifically, this brief will discuss national short and long-term accommodation frameworks. Next this brief will delve into the local implementation of these programmes and review the different roles played by local authorities and third/private sector actors. This brief will close with a summary of key policy and data gaps underpinning some of these programmes. Lastly, it should be noted that while more context-specific recommendations are laid out in each country’s full report, select recommendations corresponding to each thematic section are embedded throughout the brief. GLIMER is informed by a combination of rigorous policy analysis, qualitative research with multi-party stakeholders and secondary analysis. This policy brief is reliant on policy documents, statistics and evaluations together with interviews with stakeholders from national, regional and local authorities and the third sector in all four countries. In Sweden, GLIMER members worked across the region of Skåne and the municipalities of Malmö and Eslöv, two municipalities in a close geographic distance and part of the Öresund region that connects Sweden to Denmark and continental Europe. In Italy, researchers worked in different locations covering the territory of Calabria, focusing on two main cities (Cosenza, Catanzaro) and on places with a high density of non-Italian residents (Lamezia Terme). In Cyprus, work consisted of ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth semistructured interviews with stakeholders from devolved and local government, as well as the third sector. Lastly, in Scotland consortium members worked across several locations that included both the site of Dispersal (Glasgow) as well as areas involved in the Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme (VPRS). This policy brief does not represent an exhaustive depiction of each country’s findings. To access each country’s full report, please visit: http://www.glimer.eu/outputs/.

This policy brief will provide an overview of cross-cutting trends in language training and education for adult asylum seekers and refugees across the localities of Malmö and Eslöv (Sweden), Cosenza and Catanzaro (Italy), Nicosia (Cyprus) and Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, and Glasgow (Scotland). Specifically, this brief will discuss key issues that have consistently been identified as contributing factors to programme completion and language acquisition. This brief will organise these crosscutting trends into three overarching categories that ultimately influence educational access, provision and quality of language training for migrants: 1) individual factors; 2) education system/programme factors; and 3) policy and programme governance factors. Key policy recommendations correspond with each thematic category. GLIMER is informed by a combination of rigorous policy analysis, qualitative research with multi-party stakeholders and secondary analysis. This policy brief is reliant on policy documents, statistics and evaluations together with interviews with stakeholders from national, regional and local authorities and the third sector collected in 2019 in all four countries. In Sweden, GLIMER members worked across the region of Skåne and the municipalities of Malmö and Eslöv, two municipalities in a close geographic distance and part of the Öresund region that connects Sweden to Denmark and continental Europe. In Italy, researchers worked in different locations covering the territory of Calabria, focusing on two main cities (Cosenza, Catanzaro) and on places with a high density of non-Italian residents (Lamezia Terme). In Cyprus, work consisted of ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth semi-structured interviews with stakeholders from devolved and local government, as well as the third sector. Lastly, in Scotland consortium members worked across several locations that included both the site of Dispersal – Glasgow – as well as areas involved in the Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) – Aberdeenshire and Argyll and Bute. This policy brief does not represent an exhaustive depiction of each country’s findings. To access each country’s full report, please visit: http://www.glimer.eu/outputs/.

Adult language training for asylum seekers and refugees has historically been offered through public services as well as a service offered by the third sector. As language is considered key to the integration of third country nationals into Cypriot society, over recent years, relevant training has been provided via projects implemented by NGOs, governmental organisations and the private sector. While many positive steps have been taken, a number of gaps and challenges remain. Language training is provided sporadically and usually on a project basis. This creates difficulties for asylum seekers and refugees in accessing the training and also for organisations to sustain the provision of relevant services.

This research report focuses on the policies and practices that are aimed towards developing the language capacities of migrants and refugees in Cyprus. It provides a detailed assessment of educational initiatives and language training approaches by the state and third sector as they apply to adult asylum seekers and refugees. The report focuses specifically on the main language training programmes implemented in recent years, and discusses how these have been shaped by Cyprus’ general migration policy. An analysis is provided around the implementation of the language training programmes including strengths and weaknesses, and lessons learned.