« Building Linguistic and Translinguistic Bridges to help refugees integrate into Greek education system »

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Forced migration or displacement could be one of the most significant problems that modern history is confronted with. Nevertheless, it is a fact that people have been forced to leave their countries several times in the past. Refugees flee poverty or war and most of times never return to their country of birth. Nowadays, refugee crisis inevitably leads to a rethinking of ethnic and European policies as far as full refugee access to health and education services are concerned. Greece, a country with high percentages of refugee arrivals during the last two years but also of immigrants for more than twenty years, could be characterized as a super diverse country where different languages and cultures cross and meet one another in many dynamic interactive contexts. As far as school context is concerned, building «Bridges» refers to a. an education policy design, and b. integration of special linguistic and cultural strategies during learning procedure so as to help refugees gain access to education systems across Europe.