Migrants and Refugees in the 21st Century: Children in and out of schools

Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Frans Lelie is a fellow at the department of Sociology at the Free University in Amsterdam. A social worker by training, she has worked with women and their families with a migration background. In the last fifteen years she has worked on the topic of education of the children of immigrants. She was the project manager and web-master of two major international projects: the TIES project (The Integration of the European Second generation) and the ELITES, Pathways to Success project. For the ‘ELITES: Pathways to Success’ project, she produced five short movies looking at role models belonging to the successful second generation from the TIES survey, telling about their pathways to success in Belgium, France, Germany and The Netherlands: https://www.elitesproject.eu/educational-kit. Currently she is the project manager for the ERC advanced grant project Becoming a Minority (BAM) on the integration of people of native descent in majority minority cities in Europe. Next to this she is a match maker in the project Takecarebnb, matching refugees, who obtained a status but are still waiting in the asylum seeker centres for a house, to families willing to host someone who wants to connect and contribute in this direct way to the integration of refugees in the host society.