Finding rest in your mother language

  • Wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, severe repression and spiraling instability across many Arab and African countries have all contributed to the displacement of around 50 million refugees worldwide. Speaking in terms of refugees and migrants, many of them have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean to reach a somewhat safe haven and the hope of a better future in Europe. In Norway, the wave of migrants hit the country in fall 2015, pushing all the official institutions to the limit. Even though the Norwegian Government had planned different scenarios on how to handle eventual situations, the large amount of people that had found their way so far up North took everyone by surprise. Even The Multilingual Library, a national library service in charge of acquiring literature in minority languages to all public libraries across Norway, felt the heat when suddenly 8000 newcomers arrived to Norway in a two months period of time. While they waited for a ruling on their fate, all the migrants were asking for one thing: literature in their native languages. Because when you have lost everything - every single thing you knew, everything you've possessed and everything you did hold dearly, what can mean more than finding rest in what you still carry with you: your past, your identity, your mother language?

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Author:Nisrin Maktabi Barkouki
URN:urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-30566
Parent Title (German):TK 8: Invited Sessions / Voneinander lernen: Interkulturelle Praxis im Europäischen Ausland (01.06.2017, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr, Raum Panorama 2)
Document Type:Conference publication (Presentation slides)
Language:English
Year of Completion:2017
Release Date:2017/05/23
Tag:National Library of Norway; books; dual language
multiculturalism; multilingusim
Themes:Interkulturelle Bibliotheksarbeit, Diversity
German Bibliothekartage / BiblioCon:106. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Frankfurt am Main 2017
106. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Frankfurt am Main 2017 / Themenkreise / TK 8: Invited Sessions / Voneinander lernen: Interkulturelle Praxis im Europäischen Ausland
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung
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