The European Foriner project: Educational opportunities for European citizens detained in a foreign European country

Activiteit: Talk or presentation at a conference

Description

To gain a helicopter overview of the educational opportunities for European foreign national prisoners, an online survey has been distributed among educational providers and prison managers in Europe (N=108 prisons). The results demonstrate that European FNP’s have less educational opportunities than national prisoners. Their educational opportunities are mostly limited to language courses to learn the domestic language. Second, based on the online survey four learning practices across Europe are investigated in depth to gain more information about their way of working. We conducted twelve qualitative semi-structured individual and one group interview with professionals and prisoners. These interviews revealed that different models to organise education for FNP’s exist. For instance, some exclusively focuses their educational offer on FNP’s, while others focus on both national and foreign national prisoners. The findings offer input for the development of pilot projects all over Europe to provide education to FNP’s offered by their home country.
Periode27 mrt 201729 mrt 2027
Evenementstitel1st International Correctional Research Symposium: Enhancing comparability and understanding
EvenementstypeConference
LocatieGhent, Belgium