The Mob in Med! Project

“Mob In Med: Make Your Voice Heard on the Barriers to Youth Mobility in the Mediterranean!! ” is a collective initiative led by the Jeunesses Med network.

This advocacy campaign, led and co-developed by a group of 22 young people from 9 Mediterranean countries, aims to amplify the voices and hopes of young people for more equitable mobility in the Mediterranean, free from prejudice, imperialism, and colonial and racist stereotypes. The aim is to remind people that mobility is not a technical detail, but a deeply political issue.

Thus, this project enables:

To bring to light stories rooted in real-life experiences and challenge stereotypes about young people in the Mediterranean region.
Highlight structural inequalities in access to mobility.
Promote a political vision aimed at making mobility an effective right rather than a privilege.

Practical advocacy tools

After more than a year of work, the partners and participants are pleased to present these tools and invite everyone to make use of them and continue working together for a just peace in the Mediterranean.

1. Testimonials and graphic booklet
2. Video clip: Focus on the region
3. Recommendations
4. User guide for the tools

The Jeunesses Med network would like to warmly thank the authors of these stories and tools. Their testimonies and their work serve both as a tool for advocacy and as a call to put mobility back at the heart of public policy, so that it is no longer a privilege but an effective right for everyone.

1. Testimonials

This booklet compiles the stories of nine young people who faced mobility challenges while trying to attend the Jeunesses Med gathering in Reggio Calabria in 2024.

The situations described are diverse. Some stem from social or administrative barriers, while others arise from more violent and incomparable realities linked to war or occupation. Their severity is far from equivalent, but bringing them together conveys a powerful message: barriers to mobility, whether visible or invisible, have a direct impact on young people’s life paths and on relations between peoples. Freedom of movement and the right to mobility are historical indicators of the health of our political systems and societies. The obstacles observed point to a troubling climate marked by the rise of authoritarianism and a clear erosion of the legitimacy of fundamental rights.

View the graphic booklet of testimonials

2. Videos

Alongside this writing project, four participants created short videos that serve as a closer look at their local areas. Drawing on their local experiences, they highlight the practical challenges that hinder young people’s mobility in their respective contexts. The regions featured are very different, and the obstacles can take the form of everyday constraints related to transportation or urban planning, but also much harsher realities linked to conflict, borders, or colonization.

While the contexts vary profoundly, these testimonies show that obstacles to mobility are rooted in broader political and socio-economic mechanisms. Through these localized perspectives, these videos reveal the diversity of Mediterranean realities while highlighting a common issue: mobility remains a right that is unequally accessible.

Watch the video clips

3. Recommendations

These recommendations are the result of discussions held throughout the Mob in Med project regarding the challenges and barriers to mobility faced by young people in the Mediterranean.

They were developed through a participatory process: collaborative workshops, sharing of personal experiences, and collective development of concrete proposals.

These recommendations therefore reflect the vision and priorities expressed by this group of young people, with the aim of combating these barriers to mobility and working together to create a fairer and freer Mediterranean.

View the recommendations

4. User Guide for the Tools

These tools, developed by young people across the Mediterranean and rooted in the region’s realities, aim to drive change in the Mediterranean as well as in other regions facing similar challenges.

The partners and participants encourage everyone to adapt these tools to their own needs, contexts, and local dynamics, whether at the organizational or community level, or on an individual basis.

Access the user guide for the tools

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Advocacy tools for fair and unrestricted mobility for young people in the Mediterranean region.