Digital Technologies Assisting Migrant Population Overcome Language Barriers: The Case of the EasyRights Research Project

Nteliou, Eleftheria; Koreman, Jacques; Tolskaya, Inna; Kehagia, Olga

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“…CALST teaches vocabulary for specific topics which are related to complex procedures that migrants need to deal with in order to achieve inclusion. For example, some sounds can present problems for Arabic speakers learning Greek; CALST offers two types of listening exercises in which phonetically similar sounds are contrasted, in addition to pronunciation and spelling exercises (Nteliou et al, 2021).…”

Section: The Easyrights Project and Its Information Technology Solutionsmentioning

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EasyRights: Information Technology Could Facilitate Migrant Access to Human Rights in a Greek Refugee Camp

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Kehagia

Laura

2022

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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This paper aims to describe the context for the migrant camp in a small municipality, and it discusses the challenge of adopting the easyRights information technology (IT) to make it easier for migrants to exercise their human rights. The easyRights project “Enabling immigrants to easily know and exercise their rights” (https://www.easyrights.eu/) is an ongoing European Horizon 2020 project that addresses the challenge of migrant integration through IT-enabled solutions. This project aims to combine co-creation and intelligent language-oriented technologies to make it easier for migrants to understand and access the services to which they are entitled. The easyRights IT–enabled solutions and toolkits for the implementation of inclusion policies can facilitate the management of the integration of migrants, and improve their autonomy and inclusion. Initial interviews with two stakeholders and one migrant in the city of Kavala (in northern Greece) were conducted. Aspects of the information described in this study are intended to be utilized within the Work Package WP7 of the project, which is with regard to the communication and dissemination plan. We recommend for the easyRights IT tools to be adopted in Kavala, so as to facilitate migrants’ exercise of their human rights, and alleviate the tasks of public administrations and local authorities. Possible solutions to avoid migrant marginalization within Kavala’s municipality include adoption of the easyRights IT solutions and investigation of stakeholders’ and migrants’ use of these technology tools.

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EasyRights: Information Technology Could Facilitate Migrant Access to Human Rights in a Greek Refugee Camp

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Kehagia

Laura

2022

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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Enhancing or Compensating? Role of On- and Offline Social Capital and Technological Self-Efficacy on Subjective Well-Being among Immigrants and Natives

Yoo,

Jang

2024

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Technological Self-Efficacy Moderates the Relationship between Digital Technology Use and Life Satisfaction among North Korean Migrants in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

Yoo¹,

Jang²

2022

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BACKGROUND The use of digital technology is an important component of social inclusion for migrant and refugee populations because it can help them adapt to their host country. However, researchers have yet to empirically examine how digital technology use may affect life satisfaction in migrant populations and how these populations make use of digital technology. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare life satisfaction among North Korean migrants and the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic; examine the factors associated with life satisfaction with a focus on changes in digital technology use due to COVID-19; and test the moderating effect of technological self-efficacy on the relationship between changes in digital technology use and life satisfaction. METHODS This study analyzed secondary, cross-sectional survey data from the 2020 Digital Divide Survey conducted in South Korea. We included people aged 18 years and older from the North Korean migrants (n=699) and the general population (n=6,520) subsamples of the survey. The relationship between changes in digital technology use and life satisfaction in these two groups was examined using ordinary least squares regression. We also examined the moderating effect between the change in the use of each type of digital technology (five types: social media, life services, information sharing services, civic engagement, and consumption services) and technological self-efficacy. RESULTS There were no statistically significant differences in average scores for life satisfaction and technological self-efficacy between North Korean migrants and the general population. Technological self-efficacy had a positive effect on life satisfaction in both North Korean migrants (β=0.248, standard deviation=0.036) and the general population (β=0.283, standard deviation=0.009) when socio-demographic factors were not controlled (p<0.05). The increase in the use of online civic engagement among North Korean migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic (compared with pre-COVID-19 pandemic) had a positive impact on life satisfaction. The increase in the use of online life services and social media in the general population (compared with pre-COVID-19 pandemic) had a negative impact on life satisfaction. CONCLUSIONS Policy intervention is necessary to promote technological self-efficacy in North Korean migrants and improve their digital technology use. North Korean migrants should receive periodic and systematic digital technology use training in community-based organizations. The use of digital technology is likely to lead to positive psychosocial adaptation outcomes for North Korean migrants. Considering the potential benefits of TSE for North Korean migrants, as well as what the current information-focused education programs have to offer, added psychological factors are even more critical.

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Digital Technologies Assisting Migrant Population Overcome Language Barriers: The Case of the EasyRights Research Project

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

EasyRights: Information Technology Could Facilitate Migrant Access to Human Rights in a Greek Refugee Camp

EasyRights: Information Technology Could Facilitate Migrant Access to Human Rights in a Greek Refugee Camp

Enhancing or Compensating? Role of On- and Offline Social Capital and Technological Self-Efficacy on Subjective Well-Being among Immigrants and Natives

Technological Self-Efficacy Moderates the Relationship between Digital Technology Use and Life Satisfaction among North Korean Migrants in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

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