Библиотеките и мигрантската вълна. Не страдаме ли от предубеждения?
The libraries and the migrant wave. Are we not susceptible to prejudice?

Policies and decisions

Summary/Abstract: The situation is assessed in the context of the migrant wave. There are also various hypothesis about the readiness of the institutions to find a way to integrate the migrants into the culture of the host society. There are models offered that are used in the practice of libraries in some countries, such as Canada, the Netherlands, etc. These countries face less problems with the psychological and civil adaptation of people arriving from other areas. Libraries are used very actively at the base of these approaches. They are not only places for transmitting cultural patterns, but are also community centers where people are active in many matters of social importance – health, national security, mental illness, education, child development and development through age, bibliotherapy and others. These isuues are poorly represented in Bulgaria, as opposed to other advanced countries where library organization is harnessed very actively in solving such cases; it aims to “calm the public health” of the people who live in the society or want to be accepted and to be adapted in it. The report also addresses the position of the EU (the European Parliament) on the role of libraries with respect to migrants and the positive role that libraries are able to play in the adaptation process of migrants into society.

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