La necessità di formare le persone migranti La dimensione internazionale, gli attori in gioco e il ruolo dell’università

The essay aims at illustrating the connections between displaced people and educational system. The need to foster basic and specialized education for migrants, children and adults, forced or voluntarily displaced, is emphasized by several international organizations (UNHCR, UNESCO, WORLD BANK) and it is a duty of the States that receive migrants as workers and asylum seekers. After a brief definition of who are – and how many are - displaced people, I underline the multiple ties they need to have with the education system, in order to succeed in their migration project. States have also the duty to respect the fundamental right of literacy and studying for anyone (and especially for children), but provision of Education for all could not be sufficient to succeed in schools, due to the several impediments they meet. Referring to Italy the main social actors in this frame are, on the one hand, second generations immigrants, newly arrived adults and unaccompanied foreign children and, on the other hand, schools and VET centers for youngsters and adults; they perform different patterns in educational integration or exclusion, due to some hampering factors (bureaucratic rigidity, unprepared teachers, difficult recognition of previous skills of migrants). Lastly I call for a major commitment of universities in opening new lines of teaching, research and third mission in favor of refugees and migrants’ education