{"id":3507,"date":"2021-10-21T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2021-10-21T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:59:26","slug":"little-amals-journey-tokent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/10\/21\/little-amals-journey-tokent\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Amal&#8217;s journey to Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The refugee puppet girl was greeted with crowds on campus this week, but how do host countries view this potential addition to their workforce in reality? <\/p>\n<p>Standing 3.5 metres high, 9 year old refugee puppet \u2018Little Amal\u2019 had walked nearly 8000km from the border of Syria when she arrived at The Gulbenkian on the 21st October.<\/p>\n<p>Her journey intended to focus attention on the urgent needs of millions of young refugees worldwide and the need to change the narrative around human movement, a powerful subject explored through the focus on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/signature-themes\/migration-and-movement\/\">Migration and Movement<\/a>\u00a0at Kent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7131\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2021\/10\/Little-Amal-crowds.jpg\" alt=\"The puppet Little Amal surrounded by crowds on campus. \" width=\"349\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Little Amal set out from Turkey\u2019s Syrian border in July before passing through Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. Produced by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodchance.org.uk\/\">Good Chance Productions<\/a>, Kent\u2019s leg of The Walk was put together by our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries\">Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (iCCi).\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7134\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7134\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2021\/10\/Little-Amal.jpg\" alt=\"Little Amal, a puppet at Folkestone harbour. \" width=\"351\" height=\"409\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Amal arrived on the Kent Coast this week, to bring awareness of the refugee crisis throughout Europe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018The journey of Little Amal represents a simple yet powerful image of the plight of many young refugees around the world.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/458\/piracha-matloob\">Dr Matloob Piracha<\/a>, said of the significance of her welcome here, having written about the integration of immigrants on the labour market*.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Most of the receiving countries overlook refugee youth, leaving a potential human capital resource untapped. A number of papers in economics have shown the huge benefits that accrue to countries if they properly integrate refugees in the society and, consequently, in the labour market\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent is the only UK university hosting a leg of The Walk \u2013 one of the biggest international community arts projects ever produced. Our proximity to the Kent coast, directly corresponds to the hazardous journey taken by so many Internationally Displaced people travelling through Europe. After visiting Canterbury, she travels into London before her 8,000km journey ends in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about The Walk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/the-walk\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/1369183X.2018.1429901\">*Integration of humanitarian migrants into the host country labour market: evidence from Australia, Isaure Delaporte and Matloob Piracha, 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The refugee puppet girl was greeted with crowds on campus this week, but how do host countries view this potential addition to their workforce in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/10\/21\/little-amals-journey-tokent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}