The topic of social cohesion is receiving significant attention in Australia and other Western democracies, against a backdrop of rising social division and populism, with immigration often framed as the focal point of division.
Community sponsorship invites groups of everyday citizens to provide a warm welcome and wrap around support to newly arrived refugees. This approach:
• brings together parts of our community across divides of culture, language etc
• fosters two-way belonging and inclusion
• develops both bonding and bridging social capital and social/economic participation
• builds interpersonal trust and reciprocity
• develops public trust in ‘the system’ with localisation and decentralisation of refugee reception
• enables positive and informed understandings of refugees
Read more about community sponsorship as a social innovation that strengthens the bonds between people and communities below.
Download: How Community Sponsorship Contributes to Social Cohesion.pdf (480KB)
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