This article reviews the establishment of a mental health literacy program – Mental Health First Aid – and its introduction among ethnic minorities and migrants. The text focuses on the program adaptations toward culturally more sensitive content and approaches. Based on the evaluation of the program by its users, the article summarizes their suggestions for further adaptations to their “cultural needs.” In line with the evaluations, the article discusses the shift from considering “only” the cultural dimensions of mental health toward reflecting structural vulnerabilities that affect lived experiences of migrants, including the contestable use of the literacy concept itself.
KEYWORDS: migration, mental health, mental health literacy, Mental Health First Aid, cultural dimension

This article reviews the establishment of a mental health literacy program – Mental Health First Aid – and its introduction among ethnic minorities and migrants. The text focuses on the program adaptations toward culturally more sensitive content and approaches. Based on the evaluation of the program by its users, the article summarizes their suggestions for further adaptations to their “cultural needs.” In line with the evaluations, the article discusses the shift from considering “only” the cultural dimensions of mental health toward reflecting structural vulnerabilities that affect lived experiences of migrants, including the contestable use of the literacy concept itself.
KEYWORDS: migration, mental health, mental health literacy, Mental Health First Aid, cultural dimension

This paper focuses on mother tongue lessons of Slovenian language and culture in Germany, which began almost one hundred years ago. They were first organized between World War I and World War II and later re-established after the signing of the bilateral agreement between Germany and Yugoslavia (1968). While favorable political, social, and economic circumstances in the country of origin and in the country of destination are important, the paper emphasizes that individuals are crucial. Individuals overcome bureaucratic obstacles and enable the beginning and implementation of mother tongue lessons of Slovenian language and culture for Slovenian emigrants.
KEYWORDS: Slovenians in Germany, Slovenian mother tongue and culture lessons, economic migrants

This paper focuses on mother tongue lessons of Slovenian language and culture in Germany, which began almost one hundred years ago. They were first organized between World War I and World War II and later re-established after the signing of the bilateral agreement between Germany and Yugoslavia (1968). While favorable political, social, and economic circumstances in the country of origin and in the country of destination are important, the paper emphasizes that individuals are crucial. Individuals overcome bureaucratic obstacles and enable the beginning and implementation of mother tongue lessons of Slovenian language and culture for Slovenian emigrants.
KEYWORDS: Slovenians in Germany, Slovenian mother tongue and culture lessons, economic migrants

This article explores the mobility pathways of temporary EU workers and the implications that transnational temporary mobility has on their labor market outcomes and access to social rights and benefits. The experiences of temporary EU migrants working in the UK show that despite the narrative of the borderlessness of the common European labor market, access to host countries’ labor market and welfare is shaped by their employment status and welfare eligibility criteria that produce worker precariousness. Temporary EU workers’ experiences are characterized by employment insecurity and unequal access to labor and social rights, effects which might increase since the UK has left the EU.
KEYWORDS: European Union, temporary migrant workers, labor rights, social rights, United Kingdom

This article explores the mobility pathways of temporary EU workers and the implications that transnational temporary mobility has on their labor market outcomes and access to social rights and benefits. The experiences of temporary EU migrants working in the UK show that despite the narrative of the borderlessness of the common European labor market, access to host countries’ labor market and welfare is shaped by their employment status and welfare eligibility criteria that produce worker precariousness. Temporary EU workers’ experiences are characterized by employment insecurity and unequal access to labor and social rights, effects which might increase since the UK has left the EU.
KEYWORDS: European Union, temporary migrant workers, labor rights, social rights, United Kingdom

The Coronavirus outbreak has revealed the critical situation that can emerge when isolation and quarantine measures are applied to migrants living in reception and detention centers and overcrowded contexts. The paper focuses on events that affected two Extraordinary Reception Centres (CASs) and a Hotspot, located in Northern and Southern Italy. Although the humanitarian paradigm still represents the most functional form of government, this historical moment’s particularity led the authors to reflect on the continuity and change it brings. They hypothesize that the health crisis has downsized the action of care within humanitarian spaces favoring the strengthening of traditional securitarian solutions.
KEYWORDS: Coronavirus, reception system, migrants, Italy

The Coronavirus outbreak has revealed the critical situation that can emerge when isolation and quarantine measures are applied to migrants living in reception and detention centers and overcrowded contexts. The paper focuses on events that affected two Extraordinary Reception Centres (CASs) and a Hotspot, located in Northern and Southern Italy. Although the humanitarian paradigm still represents the most functional form of government, this historical moment’s particularity led the authors to reflect on the continuity and change it brings. They hypothesize that the health crisis has downsized the action of care within humanitarian spaces favoring the strengthening of traditional securitarian solutions.
KEYWORDS: Coronavirus, reception system, migrants, Italy

The article aims to illustrate and explore the rhetoric and institutional approach toward migrants – asylum seekers in particular – undertaken by Italy following the COVID-19 crisis. Through the account of the different “narrative phases” and the consequent institutional action undertaken, this article intends to demonstrate how the health crisis has sharpened and even intensified pre-existing attitudes and practices. The actions taken in the last year can be understood as a further step in the process of externalizing the borders. Through the instrumental use of rhetoric and illegitimate practices, a sort of de-territorialization has been implemented through the use of quarantine ships.
KEYWORDS: asylum seekers, COVID-19, quarantine ships, rhetoric, externalization

The article aims to illustrate and explore the rhetoric and institutional approach toward migrants – asylum seekers in particular – undertaken by Italy following the COVID-19 crisis. Through the account of the different “narrative phases” and the consequent institutional action undertaken, this article intends to demonstrate how the health crisis has sharpened and even intensified pre-existing attitudes and practices. The actions taken in the last year can be understood as a further step in the process of externalizing the borders. Through the instrumental use of rhetoric and illegitimate practices, a sort of de-territorialization has been implemented through the use of quarantine ships.
KEYWORDS: asylum seekers, COVID-19, quarantine ships, rhetoric, externalization