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Madrid meeting of the CONNECTION community of practice on pathways to employment
CONNECTION: Helping migrants into work by linking employment advice with integration support
Richard Williams
CONNECTION project
How can European cities address the relatively high rates of unemployment among their migrant residents? Would it help if support for getting into work was better coordinated with integration services? Officials from Sofia, Tampere, Antwerp, Karditsa, Brest and Madrid, came together as a community of practice in the Spanish capital in November 2021, to see for themselves how this might be achieved.
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Visit to Athens Migrant Integration Centre
A CONNECTION Project Workshop: Visit to Athens' Migrant Integration Centre
Tamsin Koumis
CONNECTION project
The recent CONNECTION workshop was a visit to Athens’ Migrant Integration Centre (MIC), a model ‘One Stop Shop’ which offers a range of services to migrants including legal advice, education, social services and referrals to other specialists. The key objective of the workshop was for participants to learn from Athens how to set up a successful One Stop Shop: what are the secrets for success, and what can we learn from the challenges that Athens has faced and overcome?
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Benchmarking immigrant integration policies in Europe
Richard Stanton
Inclucities
In an interview for « Trait d’Union. Ville et Communes de Bruxelles-Capitale », MigrationWork director Richard Stanton discusses the usefulness and successful implementation of benchmarking for the development of migration and integration policies at a European level.
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Director Rachel Maragozov speaking at the Migration Policy Institute in Brussels
Tamsin Koumis
On the 25th January 2019, MigrationWork Director Rachel Marangozov will be speaking at the Migration Policy Institute’s event: “Building the Foundations for Inclusion: What Does the Future Hold for Immigrant Integration in Europe?” in Brussels.
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Sara’s story should speak to us all on International Migrants Day
Rachel Marangozov
MigrationWork Director, Rachel Marangozov, discusses the damaging effect of labels, which serve to distance us from others by taking away their humanity.
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Tackling housing deprivation as a key to the better integration of Muslims
Bella Kosmala
35% of Muslim households are overcrowded, lack central heating or have to share a kitchen or bathroom, compared with the national average of 13%. Housing deprivation is a key factor in improving the integration of Muslims.
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Not just a job: supporting refugees into sustainable employment
Rachel Marangozov
MigrationWork Director, Rachel Marangozov, argues that refugee employment is about more than just jobs; it’s an opportunity to rebuild a lives.
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Urban Academy on the Integration of migrants and refugees
Bella Kosmala
MigrationWork has been invited to facilitate a three-day event in April 2018 for the Urban Academy on Integration of Migrants and Refugees. The two thematic strands of the event are “Education as a key tool for integration” and “Working effectively with civil society”.
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Innovative West Midlands cities’ migration-friendly plan kicks off
Richard Williams
News
MigrationWork has started working with three West Midlands cities on a major initiative to help the region’s communities get the maximum benefit from migration and improve migrants’ and refugees’ sense of belonging by offering services including language classes, employment support and the chance to learn new skills.
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Firewalling to protect
Bella Kosmala
MigrationWork CIC was commissioned by the Open Society Foundation to organize and facilitate a round table in May 2017 and produce a report on “Firewalling to Protect”. The report looked at child protection, policing and crime, and health, all areas in which concerns about the involvement of immigration enforcement have been raised.
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CITIES-GROW – Integration of migrants through economic activity in cities
Bella Kosmala
News
The CITIES-GroW (integration of migrants through economic activity in cities) project provides practical advice to municipal leaders and decision makers in Europe on how best to address migrant integration challenges and develop effective integration strategies.
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Community Integration Awards Logo
First Community Integration Awards ceremony
Bella Kosmala
Community Integration Awards
The first ever Community Integration Awards ceremony was held in October at the Impact Hub, King’s Cross in October 2017. The Awards were created by the MigrationWork Trust, MigrationWork CIC’s charitable arm and this year recognised projects in three categories: grassroots, tech and innovation, and research.
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EU awards 4.2 million Euros to migration-friendly cities project in West Midlands
Bella Kosmala
News
MigrationWork and its partners in three West Midlands cities have won more than four million Euros to help the region’s communities achieve the maximum benefit from migration and improve migrants’ and refugees’ sense of belonging.
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Rachel Marangozov at the International Metropolis Conference 2017
Bella Kosmala
Events
On September 20th, MigrationWork Director Rachel Marangozov will be speaking at the International Metropolis Conference 2017 in The Hague in the Netherlands.
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Government Inaction On Immigrant Integration Is A Loss To Us All
Rachel Marangozov
Writing in an article on Huffington Post, MigrationWork director Rachel Marangozov asks how Government can do better to support new arrivals and the communities which receive them.
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