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Strangers in a Foreign Land

QCEA Associate Members’ Conference 7th-8th October 2000, Leuven

Ideas for Information, Reflection and Action by Individuals and Meetings:

  • Invite speakers to Meeting for an ongoing clarification of thought.
  • Counter anti-refugee sentiments (in the press and other places) with informed statements, including statistics and personal stories where appropriate.
  • Challenge myths and stereotypes involving migrants wherever these are encountered.
  • Encourage positive reporting in the media.
  • Lobby politicians on local/national/European level.
  • Seek to understand the root causes of migration.
  • Seek to understand the causes of local anti-refugee sentiments.
  • Activate/reactivate MM social action groups.
  • Organise social events for/with refugees.
  • Make available space in Friends’ Meeting Houses for use by refugee groups.
  • Befriend individual refugees.
  • Find out information on new asylum seekers arriving in the locality.
  • Accompany refugees in their contact with local authorities.
  • Support local refugee service initiatives (advocacy, literacy, language, orientation).
  • Organise collections of furniture, clothes, dictionaries, toys, money.

Statement from QCEA Associate Members’ Conference, October 2000, Leuven

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