Social inclusion and wellbeing are a fundamental human right and intimately connected with the right to reside in a country. For refugees and migrants this takes on multiple and new forms as digital experiences increasingly wrap every part of our being. It can refer to maintaining social capital through shared digitally mediated conversations and images with friends and relatives in the homeland. It can also be about producing and accessing digital information and learning resources that can support social inclusion and wellbeing in the new country. In this paper we explore how digital learning resources developed in the Erasmus+ ReGap project (Reducing the Educational Gap for Migrants and Refugees) can support the desire to be socially included and to experience a sense of wellbeing. A key finding is that in creating such resources as digital stories, refugees and migrants, who are co-producers and users of these stories, experience social inclusion and a sense of wellbeing. The paper proposes an innovative set of indicators to measure the success of the online learning resources developed. 4 To be a refugee or a migrant is an experience unlike others, it is at once to be a no-place person 5 and at the same time to live everywhere 6 ; belonging to many places, if only fleetingly. It is in many senses "a", if not "the" modern defining experience as people appear, and perhaps also are, ever more mobile. Existentially it is what has been called refugeeness, and in so doing denotes an experience lived in the flesh of the body, in the flesh of language (metonyms and metaphors) and in the flesh of community (social bonds and interactions) (Dobson, 2004: 337) 7 .
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