Displaced populations as other: a learning approach to contrast fears and promote human rights.

This chapter will allow to reflect on how the recent large migra-tion flows produce contact and contrast between ‘us’ – European citizens – and ‘others’ – migrants. These contact and contrast can create fears, both in ‘us’ and ‘others’, that are investigated through Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow’s (YTT’s) learning program to promote human rights. The fears of displaced populations will be considered through the drawings they have produced in YTT workshops in refugee’s camps. As for the fears of Europeans, the YTT educational program will be presented. It focuses on displaced populations and ethnic prejudices in primary school children. The evidence-based primary school program is based on contact, empathy and perspective taking and aims to reduce children’s prejudice toward migrants.