In 2015, 65.3 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations. This is 5,8 million more than the previous year. It is a global and increasing phenomenon - which will never end – and citizens – alongside with governments – are taking part to this shift to find innovative solutions for integration.
 
The European Context
 
Migratory flux is one of the main stakes of the 21st century. Today with the current European refugee crisis, the whole society is directly confronted to this phenomenon. Since 2011, more than one million people crossed the Mediterranean Sea to join the Old Continent. Europe has had - and is still having - struggle to cope with this specific immigration wave, partly coming from Syria and its neighborhood, at a huge speed and with massive volume. Integration of these persons - refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and more globally '' forced migrants '' - to our society has then become a major challenge. Though many a citizens’ initiative has been created to improve this situation and make integration easier, quality of hospitality in occidental societies has often been criticized.
 
The Project
 
We are two students who plan to go and meet these men and women who mobilize themselves every day for migrants’ integration over the world. The crisis we witness today in Europe and especially in France pushed us to study forced population displacement whatever the cause is – political, economic, or climatic - and solutions for their integration. These displacements are either internal – from one region to another – or across international borders.
 
Our project Black Sheep aims at creating a mapping of French innovative projects to identify their current problems and, as a second step, at meeting and comparing projects for migrants’ integration abroad with different problematics depending on the country we are going to – natural disaster, rural exodus, political exile … - to finally designing a structure to replicate these models and ideas and adapt them to the French situation regionally.
 
The Means
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We will start with a state of the art of what is currently going on in France and then meet French associations and migrants who received help, so as to eventually draft a participative evaluation grid of these initiatives. On that basis, we will begin a one-year-long initiatory trip from October 2016 across Asia – a continent which already had to stem forced migration flux from various origins - to discover new kinds of solutions and entrepreneurial projects for migrant’s integration. We are persuaded that part of these initiatives and new business models are duplicable even though each solution is highly contextual. We want to see if that is relevant, and if so, do it back in France.