Introductory lectures (videos)

Migration and intercultural education

Today’s dynamic geopolitical situation and the crisis caused by, among others, COVID-19 intensify migration movements both globally and locally. Their resonance is visible in CEE, including countries such as Poland, whose previous demographic characteristics indicated monoculturalism, mono-ethnicity and mono-religion. Monoculturalism is the process of encouraging, enforcing, enabling the expression of one cultural, ethnic, social, or religious group to the exclusion of others. Monoculturalism encourages assimilation (incorporation) where people outside that dominant group can be expected to adopt their behaviours and practices. People migrate principally due to economic, political or security reasons, such as the prospect of a better-paid job or the search for a better place to live. An EU citizen has the right to work in any EU country. Anyone from a non-EU Member State needs a residence permit.

Instruction:

Watch the following three original video clips. First, watch two films about migration processes and the migration situation in the EU Member States:

Info Europe, How the European Union’s migration policy is broken, 30.10.2021

TLDR News EU, Why Belarus is Forcing Migrants into Europe: Polish Migrant Crisis Explained – TLDR News, 11.11.2021,

Then move on to the material: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The danger of a single story, TED, July 2009,

In this video, the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes the effects that stereotypes can have on how we perceive and think about ourselves and others.