Thomas Noppen

Migration Matters

What Do Movies and Sporting Events Have to Do With Integration?

Basketball games for integration? Tom from HiMate explains how it’s important to create moments of integration through cultural offerings, and how they’ve developed their program along the way to meet the preferences and needs of refugees and other groups in society.

 

What Do Movies and Sporting Events Have to Do With Integration?

  • Needs that HiMate responded to
  • Voucher system
  • Purpose isn’t cultural education
  • Ability to give back or give payment
  • Enlarged target group: “Integration doesn’t start with refugees