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cover: Data Brief: EEA Migrant Assistance
cover: Data Brief: EEA Migrant Assistance

Data Brief: EEA Migrant Assistance

MigrationWork CIC

2020

This data brief provides an analysis carried out by MigrationWork CIC on a dataset collected on projects run by Law Centres Network which provide legal advice for European migrants.

This data brief focuses on several aspects. Firstly it examines some key demographics to give an overview of the cases in the dataset: data source, nationality, gender, age group, and type of advice sought. The second part of the brief takes a closer look at some potential groups of interest who may have unmet needs and/or potential barriers to engagement with advice services. These groups are older age groups (55+), family members of EEA clients and clients with dual nationality.

The main findings are discussed in a series of interviews with key stakeholders and experts in the field.

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cover: CONNECTION Leaflet
cover: CONNECTION Leaflet

CONNECTION Leaflet

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2020

What concrete policies can streamline migrant integration, empowering and engaging newcomers in Europe’s cities?
CONNECTION will determine, deliver and implement the answers to this question. Peer-learning on integration around integration strategies, gender, employment and one-stop-shops will accompany concrete EU-funded policy implementation in seven of the 14 cities. Eight further cities can join visits, as well as other organisations and levels of government, and eight integration champions are trained to train others in integration strategies. CONNECTION stands for CONNEcting Cities Towards Integration actiON

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cover: VALUES Leaflet
cover: VALUES Leaflet

VALUES Leaflet

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2019

When migrants arrive in Europe, two groups meet with them face to face, deal with their immediate and long-term needs and help them integrate: city administrations and volunteers. Huge gains in time and resource efficiency stand to be made if cities and volunteers can coordinate their integration activities. The VALUES project will help cities do that.
In VALUES, a total of 16 cities will work in ‘communities of practice’, groups of four cities dedicated to each of these themes.
With local volunteer organisations, they will engage in targeted workshops, sight visits, staff exchanges, on-the-ground training and action planning to identify and implement best practices in integration and overcome shared challenges.
VALUES will improve structural cooperation and build partnerships between cities and volunteer organisations to integrate third-country nationals at local level.

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cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme A: Community building in cities to foster a welcoming culture
cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme A: Community building in cities to foster a welcoming culture

VALUES Toolkit – Theme A: Community building in cities to foster a welcoming culture

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2021

Values standard: The city ensures that volunteer residents and citizens are actively involved in welcoming migrants and helping them integrate effectively.
All cities have an interest in ensuring community cohesion, and this requires the effective integration of migrants. Welcome services are a vital element of integration and provide an important opportunity for existing city residents to play an active role in helping newly arrived migrants orientate themselves and ‘find their feet’. The benchmark focuses on how to mobilise volunteers (from all residents and citizens including migrants themselves) to deliver or support such welcome efforts. The benefits of doing this are many: volunteering adds to the human resources available, offers meaningful activities for those excluded, provides the chance for citizens and residents to express social solidarity with those arriving, and builds political support for policies and initiatives to integrate migrants. So this benchmark completes the circle of community cohesion, volunteering and migrant integration.

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cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme B: Innovative voluntary activities in integration: engaging migrants and r…
cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme B: Innovative voluntary activities in integration: engaging migrants and r…

VALUES Toolkit – Theme B: Innovative voluntary activities in integration: engaging migrants and r…

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2021

Values standard: The city takes an active role in engaging migrants and refugees in volunteering activities to help them integrate effectively and positively.

Volunteering is sometimes framed within the context of providing services for refugees and migrants, rather than an activity which refugees and migrants themselves can get involved in. But actively involving migrants and refugees in volunteering activities not only expands the volunteer pool but also adds diversity in skills and representation, and contributes to better community cohesion and active participation in a city’s communities. Cities can take an active role in engaging migrants and refugees in volunteering activities to help them and others integrate effectively and positively in their new home.

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cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme C: Cities and volunteers’ cooperation in migrant integration at neighbou…
cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme C: Cities and volunteers’ cooperation in migrant integration at neighbou…

VALUES Toolkit – Theme C: Cities and volunteers’ cooperation in migrant integration at neighbou…

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2021

Values standard: The city recognises and supports volunteer activity at neighbourhood level as a central strand of its migrant integration strategy.

The lived experience of integration happens at neighbourhood level where refugees and migrants live. It is there that they orientate, find connections and learn how to interact and get on with their neighbours. Most cities know that locally based projects and initiatives exist to help, support and engage refugees and migrants at this level, and also that refugees and migrants will better integrate if they can get connected to or involved in such neighbourhood and community activities. Cities may, however, find it challenging to see their role: they may feel too remote from what is going on locally, for example. There are, however, a number of ways cities can support and encourage the development of volunteering – both for and with refugees and migrants – at the neighbourhood level, and this in turn will help build community cohesion where it matters most.

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cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme D: Mobilising volunteers to engage the young migrant population in communi…
cover: VALUES Toolkit – Theme D: Mobilising volunteers to engage the young migrant population in communi…

VALUES Toolkit – Theme D: Mobilising volunteers to engage the young migrant population in communi…

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2021

Values standard: In the city, young migrants are actively encouraged to be involved in community life at all levels and the city can draw on the skills and commitment of volunteers to help with this.

Young people form a significant proportion of the migrant and refugee population and arrive in cities via various routes, including on their own without their families. Volunteers from across the community can support the integration of young migrants – at particular risk of exclusion and not achieving their full potential – in a wide range of ways. This benchmark considers these but also importantly underlines the benefits of creating opportunities for young migrants to volunteer themselves. Volunteering helps them on their integration journey by giving them the opportunity to learn the language, make social connections and gain valuable skills, especially when they are involved in the design, delivery and evaluation of projects and policies. Young migrant volunteers can help cities welcome and orientate newcomers, break down barriers between migrants and non-migrants, and build bridges between generations.

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cover: VALUES Infographic – Lessons learned from the visits
cover: VALUES Infographic – Lessons learned from the visits

VALUES Infographic – Lessons learned from the visits

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2021

Build communities to:

  • Foster a welcoming culture
  • Engage migrants and refugees in volunteering activities
  • Cooperate with volunteer organisations for migrant integration at neighbourhood level
  • Mobilise volunteers to engage young migrants in community life

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cover: 2nd Urban Academy on Integration Report

2nd Urban Academy on Integration Report

Urban Agenda for the EU

2019

Report from the Second Urban Academy on Integration, which took place in Antwerp 21-22 May 2019, on the topics of labour market integration and housing for migrants inclusion. The Academy is a two-day training programme on different aspects of integration for practitioners and policy makers working at the local, regional and national level. It combines inut from experts and peer exchanges on individual policy dilemmas put forward by the participants.

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cover: Droughts and Deserts final report
cover: Droughts and Deserts final report

Droughts and Deserts final report

Jo Wilding

In this report, Dr Jo Wilding argues that there already exists a market failure in immigration and asylum legal aid, both in terms of geographical availability of services and the ability to ensure adequate quality.

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cover: Active Citizenship - MiFriendly Cities briefing
cover: Active Citizenship - MiFriendly Cities briefing

Active Citizenship - MiFriendly Cities briefing

MigrationWork CIC

2019

This briefing provides an overview of innovative approaches to active citizenship in the field of migrantintegration. It is one of four which MigrationWork CIC has put together to inspire and inform readers about what has worked well and why in the run-up to ourMiFriendly Cities social innovation workshops that we are hosting in the West Midlands.

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cover: Employment - MiFriendly Cities briefing
cover: Employment - MiFriendly Cities briefing

Employment - MiFriendly Cities briefing

MigrationWork CIC

2019

This briefing provides an overview of innovative approaches to employment in the field of migrant integration. This briefing is one of four which MigrationWork CIC has put together to inspire and inform readers about what has worked well and why in the run-up to our MiFriendly Cities social innovation workshops that we are hosting in the West Midlands.

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cover: Health - MiFriendly Cities briefing
cover: Health - MiFriendly Cities briefing

Health - MiFriendly Cities briefing

MigrationWork CIC

2019

This briefing provides an overview of innovative approaches to healthcare in the field of migrant integration. Itis one of four which MigrationWork CIC has produced to inspire and inform readers about what has worked well and why in the run-up to our MiFriendly Cities social innovation workshops that we are hosting in the West Midlands.

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cover: Housing- MiFriendly Cities briefing
cover: Housing- MiFriendly Cities briefing

Housing- MiFriendly Cities briefing

MigrationWork CIC

2019

This briefing provides an overview of innovative approaches to housing in the field of migrant integration. Itis one of four which MigrationWork CIC has produced to inspire and inform readers about what has worked well and why in the run-up to our MiFriendly Cities social innovation workshops that we are hosting in the West Midlands.

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cover: Clean skins: Making the e-Border security assemblage
cover: Clean skins: Making the e-Border security assemblage

Clean skins: Making the e-Border security assemblage

Vollmer

2017

This article aims to link developments in border studies and critical data studies to show how border security practices and their associated technologies are embedded within political, social, and interpersonal contexts. Borders increasingly function as selectively permeable ‘filters’, allowing some people through while restricting others.

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cover: Conference programme – Migrants’ Access to Housing
cover: Conference programme – Migrants’ Access to Housing

Conference programme – Migrants’ Access to Housing

Migrants’ Access to Housing conference 20th June 2017, programme.

cover: Slippery discrimination: The drivers of migrant and minority housing disadvantage – Nigel de Noro…
cover: Slippery discrimination: The drivers of migrant and minority housing disadvantage – Nigel de Noro…

Slippery discrimination: The drivers of migrant and minority housing disadvantage – Nigel de Noro…

Nigel de Noronha

2017

Dr Nigel de Noronha, University of Warwick

Migrants’ Access to Housing conference 20th June 2017.

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cover: Migrant destitution in the UK – Patrick Duce
cover: Migrant destitution in the UK – Patrick Duce

Migrant destitution in the UK – Patrick Duce

Patrick Duce

2017

Patrice Duce, Innovation & Good Practice project manager, Homeless Link.

Migrants’ Access to Housing conference 20th June 2017.

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cover: Housing and Migration: The Law – Adrian Berry
cover: Housing and Migration: The Law – Adrian Berry

Housing and Migration: The Law – Adrian Berry

Adrian Berry

2017

Adrian Berry, Barrister Garden Court Chambers.

Migrants’ Access to Housing conference 20th June 2017.

presentation

cover: The social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services – A country study on immigra…
cover: The social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services – A country study on immigra…

The social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services – A country study on immigra…

Institute for Employment Studies

2016

This country case study was submitted by IES to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) in July 2014.
It was one of a collection based on different countries, carried out by different institutions, which were used as the foundation for the Eurofound report ’Social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services’.
The case study represents the results of a literature review, data analysis and qualitative research conducted into the impact on UK public services of immigrants from the new Member States.

report

cover: Quality of legal services for asylum seekers
cover: Quality of legal services for asylum seekers

Quality of legal services for asylum seekers

MigrationWork CIC

2016

SRA has published an extensive study of asylum legal advice, with Migration Work CIC, Refugee Action and Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC). The study involved speaking with 123 asylum seekers, an online survey of solicitors and interviews with solicitors, community groups and representative bodies. A barrister with extensive experience in immigration and asylum casework undertook file reviews.

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cover: Briefing 4 - Resources to support work on migration
cover: Briefing 4 - Resources to support work on migration

Briefing 4 - Resources to support work on migration

MigrationWork CIC

2015

MigrationWork colleagues worked with Migration Yorkshire and local authorities in the area on Integration Up North, to develop or improve their strategic planning on migration related issues. From this, we wrote up four briefings, this one contains resources to support work on migration.

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cover: Briefing 3 - Making Migration a Human Issue
cover: Briefing 3 - Making Migration a Human Issue

Briefing 3 - Making Migration a Human Issue

MigrationWork CIC

2015

MigrationWork colleagues worked with Migration Yorkshire and local authorities in the area on Integration Up North, to develop or improve their strategic planning on migration related issues. From this, we wrote up four briefings, this one is on making migration a human issue.

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cover: Briefing 2 - Migrants and Equality & Diversity
cover: Briefing 2 - Migrants and Equality & Diversity

Briefing 2 - Migrants and Equality & Diversity

MigrationWork CIC

2015

MigrationWork colleagues worked with Migration Yorkshire and local authorities in the area on Integration Up North, to develop or improve their strategic planning on migration related issues. From this, we wrote up four briefings, this one is on migration and equality & diversity.

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MIXITIES Leaflet

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2012

‘Making integration work in Europe’s cities’ (MIXITIES) is a project of mutual learning between cities in the field of integration governance.
Building on peer-to-peer exchanges, MIXITIES will design and test a benchmarking tool to serve as a framework for signatory cities to report and improve on the delivery of the Charter commitments.

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cover: Briefing 1 - Migrants and Community Cohesion
cover: Briefing 1 - Migrants and Community Cohesion

Briefing 1 - Migrants and Community Cohesion

MigrationWork CIC

2015

MigrationWork colleagues worked with Migration Yorkshire and local authorities in the area on Integration Up North, to develop or improve their strategic planning on migration related issues. From this, we wrote up four briefings, this one is on migration and community cohesion.

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cover: Telling our stories – communicating migration
cover: Telling our stories – communicating migration

Telling our stories – communicating migration

EPIM, MigrationWork CIC

2014

A series of four briefings synthesising the discussions held at EPIM’s workshop in Barcelona in January 2014. Fifteen groups worked on different topics; communications, different media and audiences, organising and measuring communications and storytelling.

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Tampere mentoring Lublin
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Tampere mentoring Lublin

Implementoring Infographic – Tampere mentoring Lublin

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Tampere to Lublin between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“The city promotes migrants as desirable potential and actual citizens, neighbours and colleagues and publicly welcomes the opportunities diversity offers.”

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Oslo mentoring Genoa
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Oslo mentoring Genoa

Implementoring Infographic – Oslo mentoring Genoa

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Oslo to Genoa between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“The city has structures in place that encourage and ensure engagement from migrant communities in policy making processes and remove barriers to political participation.”

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Oslo mentoring Tampere
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Oslo mentoring Tampere

Implementoring Infographic – Oslo mentoring Tampere

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Oslo to Tampere between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“The city takes the necessary steps to maximise the benefits that diversity brings and to promote equality for migrants in employment and access to services.”

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Dublin mentoring Rotterdam
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Dublin mentoring Rotterdam

Implementoring Infographic – Dublin mentoring Rotterdam

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Dublin to Rotterdam between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“Involving migrants or those of migrant backgrounds in decisions about the future of their area and giving them a voice on the same basis as other neighbourhood residents.”

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Athens mentoring Milan
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Athens mentoring Milan

Implementoring Infographic – Athens mentoring Milan

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Athens to Milan between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“The city has structures in place that encourage and ensure engagement from migrant communities in policy making processes and remove barriers to political participation.”

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Malmö mentoring Ghent
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Malmö mentoring Ghent

Implementoring Infographic – Malmö mentoring Ghent

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Malmö to Ghent between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“Involving migrants or those of migrant backgrounds in decisions about the future of their area and giving them a voice on the same basis as other neighbourhood residents.”

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Genoa mentoring Riga
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Genoa mentoring Riga

Implementoring Infographic – Genoa mentoring Riga

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Genoa to Riga between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“The city promotes migrants as desirable potential and actual citizens, neighbours and colleagues and publicly welcomes the opportunities diversity offers.”

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cover: Implementoring Infographic – Amsterdam mentoring Athens
cover: Implementoring Infographic – Amsterdam mentoring Athens

Implementoring Infographic – Amsterdam mentoring Athens

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

Eurocities Integrating Cities infographic detailing the Implementoring visit by experts from Amsterdam to Athens between 2012 and 2014. Coordinated by Eurocities Migration and Integration Working Group and facilitated by MigrationWork CIC.

“Involving migrants or those of migrant backgrounds in decisions about the future of their area and giving them a voice on the same basis as other neighbourhood residents.”

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cover: Perceptions and reality: Ten things we should know about attitudes to immigration in the UK
cover: Perceptions and reality: Ten things we should know about attitudes to immigration in the UK

Perceptions and reality: Ten things we should know about attitudes to immigration in the UK

Bobby Duffy, MORI

2014

Immigration is one of most frequently covered issues in opinion surveys. With this wealth of data, we should have a clear view of public attitudes, but in practice, questions often seem designed to create more heat than light. From our year-long review of all attitudinal data, the overall picture is one of genuine concern about immigration among a large proportion of the population – but more nuance on specifics, and a number of important gaps between perceptions and reality.

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cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Managing diversity and promoting equality in cities’ administration a…

Integrating Cities Toolkit: Managing diversity and promoting equality in cities’ administration a…

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

This toolkit aims to offer cities tools and examples to address some of the challenges in their role as employers and service providers – to empower them to manage diversity in a way that promotes equality in their administration and service provision.
The guide is the result of an 18-month process involving the cities of Copenhagen and Tampere in testing out a benchmark developed by experts under close consultation with the mentoring cities of Manchester and Oslo who offered their extensive and long-standing experience in this area.
The benchmark is also illustrated with examples from other local authorities which exemplifies the ample range of options any city, even after accounting for specific context and circumstances, has at its disposal to implement diversity in its workforce.

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cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Enhancing public perception on migration and diversity
cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Enhancing public perception on migration and diversity

Integrating Cities Toolkit: Enhancing public perception on migration and diversity

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

This toolkit aims to offer cities tools and examples to address some of the challenges in their role as employers and service providers – to empower them to manage diversity in a way that promotes equality in their administration and service provision.
The guide is the result of an 18-month process involving the cities of Copenhagen and Tampere in testing out a benchmark developed by experts under close consultation with the mentoring cities of Manchester and Oslo who offered their extensive and long-standing experience in this area.
The benchmark is also illustrated with examples from other local authorities which exemplifies the ample range of options any city, even after accounting for specific context and circumstances, has at its disposal to implement diversity in its workforce.

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cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Making participation effective in diverse neighbourhoods and service pr…
cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Making participation effective in diverse neighbourhoods and service pr…

Integrating Cities Toolkit: Making participation effective in diverse neighbourhoods and service pr…

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

The focus of the toolkit is to help local authorities promote two separate but interrelated dimensions of migrant participation: civic and political engagement. Although presented as two separate benchmarks, the toolkits on “Engagement in local policy-making processes and political participation of migrant communities” and “Making participation effective in diverse neighbourhoods” can be seen as complementary.
Both offer formal and informal paths to promote participation of migrants and facilitate engagement which can elicit a sense of belonging.

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cover: The ImpleMentoring method: City-to-city mentoring – helping partner cities to implement change
cover: The ImpleMentoring method: City-to-city mentoring – helping partner cities to implement change

The ImpleMentoring method: City-to-city mentoring – helping partner cities to implement change

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2014

ImpleMentoring helps cities to learn from each other: In ImpleMentoring, cities faced with common challenges are paired up. One is a mentor city, sharing experience and offering independent support and reflection to the implementing city which wants to raise standards and carry out changes. Both parties benefit. Mentors not only help their implementing partners to bring about desired improvements, but also learn from this dialogue.

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cover: IMPLEMENTORING Leaflet
cover: IMPLEMENTORING Leaflet

IMPLEMENTORING Leaflet

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2013

ImpleMentoring – city-to-city support for migrant integration is a mutual learning project between cities in the field ofw integration governance.
Led by EUROCITIES, the network of major cities in Europe, ImpleMentoring will enable European cities to address implementation gaps in migrant integration policies and practices.
It will build on the experience and success of EUROCITIES projects (MIXITIES, DIVE and INTI-Cities) by shifting the focus from peer reviews and standard-setting towards policy implementation guided by standards and evaluation.

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cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Promoting Cultural Diversity
cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Promoting Cultural Diversity

Integrating Cities Toolkit: Promoting Cultural Diversity

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2012

This toolkit sets out the Integrating Cities benchmark on promoting cultural diversity – what it is, and how you can use a list of context factors to allow for your city’s specific circumstances when applying this Europe-wide tool. It gives guidance on how your city can make best use of the benchmark to promote cultural diversity.
This toolkit covers those aspects that deal with realising the potential of cultural diversity in a city. It is designed to complement the differing but interrelated Integrating Cities toolkit on anti-discrimination that focuses on how cities can remove barriers resulting from discriminatory policies.

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cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Introductory and language courses
cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Introductory and language courses

Integrating Cities Toolkit: Introductory and language courses

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2012

This toolkit sets out the Integrating Cities benchmark on introductory and language courses – what it is, and how you can use a list of context factors to allow for your city’s specific circumstances when applying this Europe-wide tool. It gives guidance on how your city can make best use of the benchmark to develop work on introductory and language courses.

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cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Anti-discrimination policies
cover: Integrating Cities Toolkit: Anti-discrimination policies

Integrating Cities Toolkit: Anti-discrimination policies

Eurocities, MigrationWork CIC

2012

This toolkit sets out the Integrating Cities benchmark on anti-discrimination – what it is, and how you can use a list of context factors to allow for your city’s specific circumstances when applying this Europe-wide tool. It gives guidance on how your city can make best use of the benchmark to develop work on anti-discrimination.
This toolkit covers those aspects that deal with barriers resulting from discriminatory policies and what cities can do to overcome these. It is designed to complement the differing but interrelated Integrating Cities toolkit on promoting cultural diversity that focuses on how cities can realise the potential of cultural diversity.

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cover: Slippery discrimination a review of the drivers of migrant and minority housing
cover: Slippery discrimination a review of the drivers of migrant and minority housing

Slippery discrimination a review of the drivers of migrant and minority housing

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

2018

This paper aims to identify housing disadvantages faced by migrants and ethnic minorities; the legal, policy and market forces that shape them; how they have developed over time; how they are manifest nationally and locally; and how they are being responded to locally by those concerned with mitigating them. The paper thereby intends to provide a foundation to inform future research and policy and to engage with local actors to develop ways of overcoming migrant housing disadvantage and challenging discrimination. The paper finds that the interplay of legal changes, which have increasingly differentiated migrants since the 1940s, and shifting housing markets, has driven exclusion of migrants and minorities such that considerable disadvantage is revealed by analysis of census data. However, attention to local specificity provides evidence of positive responses. Examples are presented in relation to access to affordable housing, enactment of homelessness duties and community actions. Methodologically, this paper highlights the importance of simultaneous consideration of migration and ethnicity as markers of difference and exclusion, and the potential of co-production approaches for socially meaningful research concerned with inequalities.

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cover: Choices Ahead: Approaches to lower skilled labour migration after Brexit
cover: Choices Ahead: Approaches to lower skilled labour migration after Brexit

Choices Ahead: Approaches to lower skilled labour migration after Brexit

Economic & Social Research Council, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow

2018

The UK’s departure from the European Union (EU) implies the end of free movement rights for European Economic Area (EEA) and Swiss nationals to the UK. This is likely to have substantial impacts on the supply of EEA nationals to the UK labour market, including immigration to lower-skilled jobs. Around 220,000 EEA nationals enter the UK each year, of whom the majority work in lower-skilled, lower-paid jobs, which do not meet the skills or salary thresholds for admission under Tier 2 of the UK’s points-based system. Key questions therefore arise as to how a post-Brexit immigration system will affect the supply of workers into lower-skilled jobs in the UK; and what kinds of programmes should be put in place to regulate such flows. The aim of this paper is to (1) explore the options for regulating immigration to lower-skilled jobs after Brexit, drawing on examples from other industrialised countries; and (2) to assess how successful different types of programmes would be in attracting and retaining (especially EEA) immigrants.

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cover: Our Shared British Future: Muslims and Integration in the UK
cover: Our Shared British Future: Muslims and Integration in the UK

Our Shared British Future: Muslims and Integration in the UK

Muslim Council of Britain

2018

Scholars, activists, specialists and leaders offer unique perspectives on the challenges of integration in the UK today.

This document brings together a cross-section of British Muslims. Alongside non-Muslim specialists who have worked in and amongst Muslim communities, they reflect on the realities of integration.

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cover: Beyond Fear and Hate: Mobilising people power to create a new narrative on migration and diversity
cover: Beyond Fear and Hate: Mobilising people power to create a new narrative on migration and diversity

Beyond Fear and Hate: Mobilising people power to create a new narrative on migration and diversity

Coventry University, MigrationWork CIC

2016

The report examines the factors that shape attitudes to migration and diversity in these contexts, focusing in particular on the development of alternative narratives by a growing number of civil society and grass roots organisations, based on values of diversity, solidarity and human compassion.

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cover: The Continuing Shame of Europe: Discourses on Migration Policy in Germany and the UK
cover: The Continuing Shame of Europe: Discourses on Migration Policy in Germany and the UK

The Continuing Shame of Europe: Discourses on Migration Policy in Germany and the UK

University of Oxford

2016

Europe is in urgent need to deliberate about its shame and the on-going embarrassment for liberal democracies. Deliberation theory, ethical approaches of discourse and models of deliberative democracy has offered great potential to create such space and alternative and progressive designs of knowledge production, policymaking and possibly a route out of this dead-end policy situation.

article

cover: A Hermeneutical Approach to European Bordering
cover: A Hermeneutical Approach to European Bordering

A Hermeneutical Approach to European Bordering

COMPAS

2016

MigrationWork member Bastian Vollmer discusses a new approach on borders and suggests a hermeneutical approach to European bordering and border regimes.

article

cover: Immigration Thematic Review Report (Bar Standards Board)
cover: Immigration Thematic Review Report (Bar Standards Board)

Immigration Thematic Review Report (Bar Standards Board)

Bar Standards Board

2016

The Bar Standards Board began a thematic review into immigration advice and services in 2015. The purpose of the review was to understand and analyse the risks in the immigration advice and services market.

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cover: Investing in Integration: How can social investment be used to promote integration of refugees and …
cover: Investing in Integration: How can social investment be used to promote integration of refugees and …

Investing in Integration: How can social investment be used to promote integration of refugees and …

Big Society Capital

2016

Social investment could help provide a new source of capital to support innovative approaches to addressing complex and unmet refugee and asylum seekers needs in the UK.

article

cover: Immigrants told to leave UK face huge hike in fees to appeal decisions
cover: Immigrants told to leave UK face huge hike in fees to appeal decisions

Immigrants told to leave UK face huge hike in fees to appeal decisions

Jo Wilding

2016

Article in the Conversation by MigrationWork associate and Garden Court Chamber barrister Jo Wilding on the 571 percent increase in Tribunal appeal fees for immigrants in the UK.

article

cover: Social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services
cover: Social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services

Social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services

Institute for Employment Studies

2015

Freedom of movement across Member States is one of the core values of the European Union and is closely linked to European citizenship. There is, however, a heated debate in many of the host Member States about the impact of the rising inflow of mobile citizens on their public services. This research project aimed to examine the extent to which mobile citizens from the central and eastern European Member States (the EU10) take up benefits and services in nine host countries. It also provides a demographic and socioeconomic profile of EU10 mobile citizens and identifies initiatives aimed at integrating them in the host countries and providing them with access to benefits and services. The main finding of the report is that overall take-up of welfare benefits and services by EU10 citizens is lower than that of the native population of the host country, especially social housing and pensions. However, their take-up of certain specific benefits, mainly employment-related benefits (unemployment and in-work benefit), is higher.

report

cover: Migration Policy Toolkit: An online guide to welcoming, integrating and engaging migrant communitie…
cover: Migration Policy Toolkit: An online guide to welcoming, integrating and engaging migrant communitie…

Migration Policy Toolkit: An online guide to welcoming, integrating and engaging migrant communitie…

COSLA

2015

This toolkit is to help local authorities and their community planning partners to think about how to welcome, integrate and involve migrant communities in Scotland. It is for people who are new to migration, and for people who already do a lot of work around migration.

toolkit

cover: Benign neglect? Policies to support upward mobility for immigrants in the UK
cover: Benign neglect? Policies to support upward mobility for immigrants in the UK

Benign neglect? Policies to support upward mobility for immigrants in the UK

Migration Policy Institute

2014

This report assesses how effectively integration policies in the United Kingdom are helping migrants advance into middle-skilled jobs from low-skilled work or unemployment, focusing in particular on employment services, ESOL, and vocational training. The author then discusses the ways that other policies and contextual factors often undermine migrants’ entry into the labor market and progression out of low-skilled jobs, including cuts to welfare programs, difficulty navigating a complex and ever-changing workforce development system, and low demand for training in some sectors, particularly those with high turnover.

report

cover: Migrants in low-paid low-skilled work in London: research into barriers and solutions to learning E…
cover: Migrants in low-paid low-skilled work in London: research into barriers and solutions to learning E…

Migrants in low-paid low-skilled work in London: research into barriers and solutions to learning E…

Institute for Employment Studies

2013

English language ability is central to individuals’ ability to find a job and progress in work in the UK. Many migrants in low paid work, however, do not access formal English language learning provision.

In 2013 the Greater London Authority (the GLA), working in partnership with Jobcentre Plus, the Skills Funding Agency and the Association of Colleges to improve the English language training offer for jobseekers, commissioned a small piece of primary research to investigate the English language learning experiences of migrants in low paid work in London and to use the information generated by this work to inform and shape the potential future commissioning of English Language provision aimed at low paid, low-skilled migrants in London.

report

cover: Whose best interest? Exploring Unaccompanied Minors through the Lens of Migration and Asylum Proces…
cover: Whose best interest? Exploring Unaccompanied Minors through the Lens of Migration and Asylum Proces…

Whose best interest? Exploring Unaccompanied Minors through the Lens of Migration and Asylum Proces…

University of Brighton

2015

This report examines the best interests of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK through their own experiences. While a sophisticated framework of rights exists on paper, there are longstanding concerns, supported by this research, that children are often denied these rights in practice for a variety of reasons. The importance given to their asylum-­seeking status, over and above their being children, has meant that their rights as children have had to be fought for through campaigns and legal cases.

Part of the comparative project, “In Whose Best Interest? Exploring Unaccompanied Minors’ Rights through the lens of Migration and Asylum Processes”, also carried out in France, Austria and Slovenia, this report focuses on the UK context. It describes the field work, and provides a brief overview of the country context, including the institutional framework and the numbers and patterns of unaccompanied children entering and living in the UK. It concludes with recommendations arising out of the research, focussed on improving the process of determining and implementing those best interests.

report

cover: Immigrant Integration in British Society
cover: Immigrant Integration in British Society

Immigrant Integration in British Society

Economic & Social Research Council

2015

At the end of 2014, annual net migration for the UK had risen to a current high of 318,000. Integration in British society has become an increasingly central part of the debate around immigration – raising questions about social cohesion, shared values and national identity.

Unity out of Diversity is a three-year research project funded by the ESRC’s Future Research Leaders scheme, based at the University of Manchester and led by Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips. The research aims to explore the nature and characteristics of immigrant integration and how it is perceived in the public policy sector, the academic community and among the general public.

Web: http://projects.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/unity-out-of-diversity/

briefing

cover: Settling in: Experiences of Women on Spousal Visas in the UK
cover: Settling in: Experiences of Women on Spousal Visas in the UK

Settling in: Experiences of Women on Spousal Visas in the UK

eaves – putting women first

2015

New Research from Eaves – “Settling in”: Experiences of Women on Spousal Visas in the UK.

“It would never occur to us, for example, that a woman could enrol at the GP but delay attending until she was much more seriously ill because she hadn’t understood she had access to free care. It would never cross our minds that a woman might think the emergency number was 911 rather than 999 because she’d obtained her information from watching American films.” Heather Harvey Research and Development manager, Eaves.

report

cover: IssueLab Special Collection: Immigration Strategies
cover: IssueLab Special Collection: Immigration Strategies

IssueLab Special Collection: Immigration Strategies

Foundation Center

2015

This collection of evaluations, case studies, and lessons learned exposes and explores the nuances of effective collaboration, the value of coordinated messaging, the bedrock of ongoing advocacy efforts, and the vital importance of long-term and flexible funding.

website

cover: IMPART – Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment
cover: IMPART – Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment

IMPART – Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment

IMPART ESF Learning Network

2012

This toolkit offers the means to make better use of EU resources in initiatives which help migrants and ethnic minorities to improve their access to the labour market. These might be actions focused solely on employment, or actions with a wider brief for migrant integration including employment among other objectives.

Developed by the IMPART Learning Network, formed under the European Social Fund in 2009, the toolkit describes a benchmark and peer review method, and provides guidance on different ways these can be used by trained practitioners to review another project or programme.

toolkit

cover: Evaluation of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Grants
cover: Evaluation of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Grants

Evaluation of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Grants

Institute for Employment Studies

2014

The equality, diversity and inclusion grants were given to Further Education (FE) colleges and training organisations to develop the capacity of the sector to meet the public sector Equality Duty.
This evaluation was commissioned by the Skills Funding Agency. It assesses the impact and value for money of the grants, and includes good practice eight case studies.

report

cover: How to talk about immigration (briefly)
cover: How to talk about immigration (briefly)

How to talk about immigration (briefly)

British Future

2014

How to talk about immigration sets out British Future’s understanding and analysis of public attitudes to immigration and the issues of integration, identity and opportunity that inform the immigration debate. It seeks to suggest new ideas for further discussion and to offer a vision of an approach to immigration that is principled, practicable and capable of securing public support.

toolkit

cover: Making rights real – A guide for local and regional authorities
cover: Making rights real – A guide for local and regional authorities

Making rights real – A guide for local and regional authorities

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights

2013

This booklet aims to provide local and regional officials with a framework for understanding more about fundamental rights and applying them when making decisions and completing their regular tasks and activities.
This booklet will help officials address key questions like how to understand the fundamental rights-dimension of policy issues? How to translate them into real, practical and tangible measures? How to plan appropriately with useful steps in order to meet people’s needs and expectations in the best possible way? How to increase public awareness of fundamental rights-related issues?

guide

cover: Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants
cover: Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants

Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, MigrationWork CIC, Trust for London

2012

The Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants (SLF) is a fund to support legal work that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of vulnerable migrant children and young people more generally.

The SLF achieves this by providing grants to organisations to undertake pre-litigation research, or make third party interventions to ensure that the key legal points are made in existing cases.

The SLF is an initiative of Trust for London, delivered in partnership with Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy and MigrationWork CIC.

website