These Museums Helped Welcome Immigrants and Refugees to their Community, and Yours Can Too!

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Museums wanting to welcome new immigrants and refugees.

American Alliance of Museums

2018

“Welcoming America’s annual Welcoming Week enlists organizations around the country to welcome new immigrants and refugees into their new communities. This year, AAM is a national partner of Welcoming Week and is calling on museums to get involved on September 10 to 19. Use your spaces and resources to unite your community and show that not only are we stronger together, but the future depends on our unity!

For inspiration, look no further than the museums below, which are all past or future Welcoming Week participants. From hosting multicultural entertainments to leading a Twitter chat on inclusivity, they’ve found creative ways to do what museums do best in service of this important cause.

Ready to get involved? See this link for a toolkit on hosting an event, and print one of our special signs below to display at your museum.”

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The resource can support collections-based institutions to support a number of SDG targets, including 1.4 (ensuring equal access to basic services), 3.4 (promote health and wellbeing), 10.2 (promote universal social, economic and political inclusion), 10.3 (reducing inequalities of outcome), 10.4 (policies for greater equality), 10.7 (safe, regular and responsible migration), 11.5 (reduce the impact of disasters), 11.7 (safe and welcoming public places), 11.B (integrated plans for inclusion and Disaster Risk Reduction), 16.10 (protect the right to information and other fundamental freedoms) and 16.B (promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development).

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SDG 1.4: Equal Rights to Ownership, Basic Services, Technology and Economic Resources
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers and proportions of people from particular groups using collections in comparison with demographics in broader society.
Numbers of people accessing collections.
Number of targeted programmes that aim to enhance access to collections by disadvantaged groups.
Sustainable tourism that enhances local communities’ access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property (including cultural and natural heritage), as well as to technology and markets.
Involvement of people from disadvantaged groups in decision-making activities and processes relating to collections and collections-based institutions.
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SDG 3.4: Reduce Mortality from Non-Communicable Diseases and Promote Mental Health
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the safe use of collections, notably in relation to chemical, physical, biological and other forms of hazard.
Proportion of users of collections facilities reporting positive well-being during and as a result of activities relating to collections.
Number and proportion of programmes relating to collections that incorporate wellbeing considerations and perspectives.
Number of targeted programmes drawing on collections that address issues relating to non-communicable diseases, supporting prevention and treatment.
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SDG 10.2: Promote Universal Social Economic and Political Inclusion
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections development to ensure that collections effectively meet the needs of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Number and proportion of educational and participatory programmes that promote participation irrespective of social or other status.
Numbers and proportions of people making use of collections in relation to the demographic of the local population.
Numbers and proportions of people involved in focused programmes aimed at promoting social, economic and political inclusion.
Numbers and proportions of people from different demographic groups involved in decision-making processes relating to collections and collections-based institutions.
Number and types of partnerships that build relationships with marginalized groups, individuals and communities.
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SDG 10.3: Ensure Equal Opportunities and End Discrimination
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Identification of discriminatory policies and practices, with clear plans to address these, to ensure equal opportunity for all and reduce inequalities of outcome.
Collections development to uphold and promote legislation and anti-discriminatory perspectives, with the aim of reducing inequality within and between countries.
Education and participatory programmes that promote anti-discriminatory legislation, policies and action, with the aim of reducing inequality within and between countries.
Research that supports anti-discriminatory legislation, policies and action, with the aim of reducing inequality within and between countries.
Participation in partnerships that promote anti-discriminatory legislation, policies and action, with the aim of reducing inequality within and between countries.
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SDG 10.4: Adopt Fiscal and Social Policies that Promotes Equality
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number and proportion of policies that proactively address equality issues relating to fiscal, wage and social protection considerations.
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SDG 10.7: Responsible and Well-Managed Migration Policies
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections development that supports a variety of uses relating to migration and that enables migrants and refugees to access their heritage.
Numbers and proportions of people making use of collections who are from migrant backgrounds.
Numbers and proportions of people involved in focused programmes supporting migrants and refugees.
Use of collections for a variety of purposes (education, awareness-raising, research, partnerships) that address issues relating to migration, mobility, and refugees.
Numbers and proportions of people and groups from different migrant backgrounds in decision-making processes relating to collections and collections-based institutions.
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SDG 11.5: Reduce the Adverse Effects of Natural Disasters
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections-based research that supports the understanding and management of disasters of all kinds.
Plans in place for public education and awareness drawing on collections and collections-based institutions to reduce exposure and vulnerability to disasters of all kinds.
Plans in place to ensure collections-based institutions steadily work to reduce their contributions to disaster risk, for example by reducing pollution and waste of all kinds.
Plans in place to ensure collections-based institutions, and people related to them (including workers) are protected from economic losses as a result of disasters.
Plans in place to provide special support/protection to poor and vulnerable people and groups in and following disasters.
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SDG 11.7: Provide Access to Safe and Inclusive Green and Public Spaces
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of people accessing collecting institutions from different demographic groups, notably women, children, older people and persons with disabilities.
Increases in numbers of people accessing collecting institutions from different demographic groups.
Measures taken to remove barriers to access green and public spaces.
Extent of green space provided by collections institutions.
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SDG 11.B: Implement Policies for Inclusion, Resource Efficiency and Disaster Risk Reduction
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030a.
Disaster Risk Reduction strategies and plans in place, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, to ensure collecting institutions and collections are factored into planning, and contribute effectively to Disaster Risk Reduction.
Collections-based institutions included in local plans for social inclusion, resource use, and Disaster Risk Reduction.
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SDG 16.10: Ensure Public Access to Information and Protect Fundamental Freedoms
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to enhance public access to information relating to collections.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to support fundamental freedoms, in line with human rights, national and international agreements and legislation.
Plans and procedures in place for public access to information relating to the operation and management of collections-based institutions.
Complaint mechanism in place for public to use where public access to information and fundamental freedoms not supported or fulfilled.
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SDG 16.B: Promote and Enforce Non-Discriminatory Laws and Policies
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of population [audience/users/non-users] reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law.
Number and proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, in the full sense of recognizing all three of social, economic and environmental considerations.
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