Child and Youth immigrants in EU:
Perspectives of Forced Migration

This is a draft proposal call for FP7 with deadline
May 10th 2007.

 Please contact me urgently for further
information and partner participation.

Our aim is to address psychosocial issues of child and
youth immigrants in a growing Europe in the context of
Forced Migration, document them, create databases for
comparative research, develop European
acculturation/integration measurement scales/tools and
propose possible European child and youth
immigration/integration/educational policies according
to our findings.

The focus of the research will be to
assess and compare traditional theories of
Acculturation in the context of new data of Forced
Migrants.

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Dear sirs,

My name is Dimitris Dimitriou MD Cand PhD, Pediatrician and Balkan, Slavonic and Oriental Studies specialist with special research field in psychosocial effects of child migration, multicultural society and policies. Currently I'm working at the University of Athens-Greece as a PhD researcher under the guidance of Prof. A.Constantopoulos, President of Greek Pediatric society and President of the International Congress of Pediatrics – Athen 2007 and collaborate as well with Prof. G. Chrousos Chairman (pediatrics) and distinguished academic worldwide. I also work at the Developmental and Social Pediatrics Center in Nicosia Cyprus and we are affiliated with Frederick Research Institute with which we collaborate on a research basis and with the University of Macedonia-Thessalonica-Greece with whom we are promoting the proposal in question with the guidance of Prof.E.Voutira, Anthropologist and Migration specialist (PhD Harvard and Cambridge). My CV can be downloaded from Download section.

We are also planning the creation of a European Migration policy Institute in Cyprus.

We are interested in submitting a proposal for FP7 regarding Forced Migration and children. The deadline is rather short, May 10th 2007. We look forward in finding eligible partners, with commitment and high expertise for a paneuropean perspective of the study.

We welcome research institutes and Universities from countries such as Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany, UK, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and other countries that would feel they can contribute to our research.

Please note that we have a very short deadline and we will prefer partners that are quick in responding.

We are also interested in participating in projects as partners.

Please feel free to contact us.

This is a draft proposal call for FP7 with deadline

May 10th 2007. Please contact me urgently for further

information and partner participation.

Title:

Child and youth immigrants in EU: The perspective of

Forced Migration

Our aim is to address psychosocial issues of child and

youth immigrants in a growing Europe in the context of

Forced Migration, document them, create databases for

comparative research, develop European

acculturation/integration measurement scales/tools and

propose possible European child and youth

immigration/integration/educational policies according

to our findings. The focus of the research will be to

assess and compare traditional theories of

Acculturation in the context of new data of Forced

Migrants.

Specifically, the project will address the

psychosocial impact of current social policies of

child and youth immigrants. The focus will be on Child

and Youth Migrants, (asylum seekers, refugees,

separated children). The project will consider

traditional host countries such as Germany and the UK

and new emerging host countries such as Greece, Spain,

Italy, Latvia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Cyprus in their

views of child and youth immigrants, transcultural

educational policies, ethnic identity formation in a

multicultural environment, sociocultural integration

and attitudes of child and youth immigrants.

Furthermore, the study will include PTSD and other

psychological and mental health determinants of child

and youth immigrants, acculturation, quality of life

measurements and how the child immigrants view their

future in EU and their relations with the country of

origin.

Moreover, it will include the attitudes and tendencies

of the host societies in relation with the integration

and acculturation of child and youth immigrants (eg

acceptance, tolerance, discrimination, xenophobia),

Islam and EU-enlargement (since Muslim youth is the

fastest growing demographic group in Europe),

psychosocial aspects of child and youth immigrants'

forced migration to EU, language competence,

intergenerational aspects and comparisons.

Dimitris Dimitriou MD, Cand.PhD

www.e-pediatrics.org

00357 22764773

00357 96548068

6, G.Markide str

Nicosia 1066

Cyprus