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WELCOME! This is the 40th issue of the European Web Site on Integration's monthly newsletter. Every first Wednesday of the month, the editorial team of the European Web Site on Integration sends you a selection of content recently published on the Site. |
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In an interview to Le Monde, the French Minister of the Interior announced today its priorities for immigration and integration policies. These include the creation of a three-year residence permit, as well as more generous criteria for naturalisations. Read more...(FR) Read more on changes to the law on naturalisation...(FR)... |
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The aim of this call for proposals is to co-finance a partnership that can promote greater awareness of demographic and societal challenges and possible policy responses in the European Union among policy makers and lay audiences. For this purpose, grant funding will be offered to one project managed by a partnership made up of not-for-profit research bodies, public institutions and civil society … |
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The Swedish ESF Council has launched the 2013 call for proposals for the Integration Fund. Read more at the ESF Council Website. |
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This year the Austrian Integration Fund, together with the Ministry of Interior, invites schools, NGOs, clubs, communities and individuals to participate for the prize for sports. With the integration prize projects and initiatives will be awarded which promote the integration of people with immigrant backgrounds in Austrian society through sport. Further information (in German) … … |
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The Swedish ESF-council has launched an additional call for proposals for the integration fund, program of 2012. A maximum of SEK 4 500 000 will be distributed and applications must be send before the 17th of september. Projects can start the first of october. More... Se also: Link to call for proposals, program of 2013. |
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Le présent marché porte sur l’exécution d’un ensemble d’études qui se focalisent sur le secteur du logement privé en Belgique en tenant compte des différences régionales. Le marché se compose plus concrètement des postes suivants: Analyse d’annonces de location. Mesure de l’ampleur de la discri… |
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Simplification of procedures and strengthening the structures responsible for migration, determining categories of foreigners particularly important for interests of the state, reform of the system of integration of migrants and monitoring their situation, as well as increasing the role of NGOs and research institutes dealing with broadly understood migration issues are major proposals contained i… |
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On 1 November 2012 BUM Media launches a new project - "MigAward". Within this project a number of initiatives, projects and personalities which promote the integration and participation of immigrants in Austria are honored. The award will be given in 5 categories (Person of the Year, Project of the Year, Media, Business & Work, Education & Social Issues). A negative award "Dead end… |
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On 1 November 2012 BUM Media launches a new project - "MigAward". Within this project a number of initiatives, projects and personalities which promote the integration and participation of immigrants in Austria are honored. The award will be given in 5 categories (Person of the Year, Project of the Year, Media, Business & Work, Education & Social Issues). A negative award "Dead end… |
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Mr Iida, a Japanese national, has been married to a German national since 1998, and has lived since 2005 in Ulm (Germany), where he has a permanent job. Their daughter was born in 2004 in the United States, and she has German, Japanese and American nationality. The spouses have since 2008 been separated in practice but not divorced, the wife having gone to live in Vienna (Austria) with her daughte… |
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On Tuesday 20 November 2012 a unique and major diversity project was executed in Europe. In seven EU member states, migrant journalists produced eight inlays to the free METRO newspapers in the UK, Sweden, Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherland, Hungary, Belgium (French and Dutch). All eight inlays were available for free to more than 5 million readers. In some of the countries it is for the first … |
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On 20 November 2012 the Social Dialogue Committee for Foreigners was established in Warsaw. The Committee consists of 18 NGOs working for foreigners and foreigners' associations. It is one of 30 social dialogue committees operating at the City Hall of Warsaw. Social dialogue committees are initiative and advisory bodies created by non-governmental organisations and the City Hall of Warsaw. T… |
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La conférence des Présidents, qui s’est réunie ce mardi 20 novembre 2012, a décidé, sur proposition de M. Claude Bartolone, Président de l’Assemblée nationale, la création d’une mission d’information sur les immigrés âgés.En lire plus... |
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The number of people who acquired citizenship in the EU Member States rose to 810,000 in 2010, a 4% increase with respect to 2009. This is the first time that the total number of acquisitions in the EU exceeds 0.8 million. For the first time, there were more persons acquiring Spanish citizenship than German.The largest groups of foreigners who acquired citizenship in the EU were Morocca… |
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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Wednesday ordered the immediate implementation of a decision reached by the Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, regarding recent legislation which granted citizenship and voting rights to second-generation immigrants residing in Greece.New legislation compatible with the court’s decision is expected to be presented by the Mini… |
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Integration practices |
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Campaign desined by the City of Barcelona whose main goal is to combat negative and unfounded rumors that have an adverse effect on living in diversity, based on working in conjunction with different social actors and organizations and introducing the figure of an "Anti-rumor Agent". |
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The counseling center Yasemin is aimed with its offering to migrant women in the age between 12 to 27 years and trusted persons such as teachers, social workers, doctors, employers and friends. We advise and accompany girls and young women within crisis and conflict situations, such as difficulties with their families, relatives and the social environment, domestic violence, violence in th… |
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The StepTogether – Migrant Children in School project follows the European Council’s recommendation for improving the education of migrant children and young adults from third countries, and for preventing their low school performance and dropping out from schools. The project team at the University of Miskolc, Hungary developed a content-based L2 Hungarian teaching aid package for mi… |
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The project Escolhas Vivas (Living Choices) is a community intervention project being developed at the municipal level whose goal is to host, to do the follow-up, to support and to guide youngsters living in situations of disadvantage with the goal of promoting their social and school integration and / or vocational training. The purpose is to contribute to set up equal opportunities of ac… |
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The mission of the Welcome Centre in Warsaw (WCW) is to provide comprehensive assistance to foreign nationals from non-EU countries who want to settle in Poland. The WCW operates in two forms: mobile advisory points and a permanent advisory point in the centre of Warsaw. Main areas of activities of the WCW are: legal and civic advice, labour market support, psychosocial support, cultural activitie… |
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Association d’insertion par le logement, l’AVDL joue un rôle d’«intermédiaire du logement » entre demandeurs de logement et bailleurs sociaux depuis sa création, en 1985. Suite à une formation-action menée en 2007-2008, l’AVDL a, en premier lieu, travaillé sur ses propres pratiques afin de prévenir et lutter contre… |
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The goal of the project is to promote the active and civic participation of young people in society, involving them in providing educational, professional, leisure and entrepreneurial responses in order to sponsor equal opportunities and to reinforce social cohesion. The results achieved until now are very satisfactory when compared to the initial expected achievements. The word integration is oft… |
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Young inhabitants of four immigrant neighbourhoods in Europe rethink citizenship to break clichés on multiculturalism and national identities. |
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The project PlusXL intervenes in the administrative parishes of Laranjeiro and Feijó in the municipality of Almada (metropolitan area of Lisbon) where a young, ethnically and culturally diverse population can be found. The project focuses its attention on families and youngsters socially excluded and with issues related to school and to learning. The aim of the team is to work with the targ… |
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Documents and publications |
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The Swedish Agency for Public Management has published an evaluation of the reform on faster integration of newly arrived migrants that entered into force in December 2010. Authors concludes that goals of the reform have only been partially met and that involved authorities need to strengthen coordination of their activities. The report |
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In this manual CIBA tries to cover all the administrative aspects of obtaining Residence and Working permits for EU Citizens and Third Country Nationals and their families, employed by International Business Companies as Executive Directors, Executive Staff, Key Personnel or Supporting Staff. Download the document... |
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This book is the result of the research program "Observatory to combat discrimination" and attempts to contribute to the body of information developed in recent years in Greece and the European Union on issues of equality and discrimination. The texts encourage public dialogue on issues of discrimination, of promotion of the key issues for successful implementation of policies and to identify poli… |
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The Integration Centre has compiled this resource to provide a snapshot of immigration and diversity in Ireland. Published in celebration of International Refugee Day, this publication challenges prevalent myths in existence surrounding immigrants, expecially asylum seekers and refugees. Download the document... |
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This publication was prepared to share the results of the Grundtvig workshop: ‘Multicultural Europe - are we really united in diversity? Anti-discrimination training’. The main goal of the workshop was to strengthen cultural sensitivity and deepen the knowledge on the issue of discrimination and anti-discriminatory practice. We present exercises that were used along with trainers&rsqu… |
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The Quest for Active, inclusive Communities Europe’s social policy agenda is wide – it includes reducing poverty, improving social protection, and combating discrimination – but its goal is, broadly, to improve the quality of life of people living in the EU. The European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) is Eurofound’s tool for monitoring quality of life in Europe. Questions i… |
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This EMN Focussed Study responds to a growing concern, notably of policymakers as well as in the media, that the right to family reunification may be misused as a route into settlement in the EU. It also serves to inform the Green Paper on the Family Reunification Directive 2003/86/EC. The aim of the study was to identify the scale and scope of two instances of misuse, namely marriages of conveni… |
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In 2011 there were 33.3 million foreign citizens resident in the EU-27, 6.6% of the total population. The majority, 20.5 million, were citizens of non-EU countries, while the remaining 12.8 million were citizens of other EU Member States. Due to better data availability, information on citizenship has often been used to study populations with a foreign background. However, … |
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Since the early 2000s, Greece has become the major gateway into the European Union for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers from Asia and Africa. Years of mismanaged migration and asylum policies and, most recently, the deep economic crisis, have changed the demographics of the entire country. The center of Athens, in particular, has a large population of foreigners living in extreme pov… |
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The document presents a selection of good ideas and practices for integrating urban migrants identified in the Cities of Migration website. Every good idea includes recommendations, related readings, city data and contact information. See document. |
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Several Eurobarometer surveys have been conducted since 2006; the latest, in spring 2009, included several questions that measure the extent to which the economic crisis is seen to hamper the implementation of anti-discrimination policies and efforts. In light of the continuing economic malaise, the questions on the impact of the crisis were asked again in this latest survey. The 2012 survey repea… |
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Do migrants contribute to innovation in the European Union (EU)? MPC’s recent report attempts to answer this critical question. To measure innovation, our research focuses on migrants’ contribution to patents registered at the European Patent Office. The preliminary results point towards a positive role played by migrants in promoting innovation. Download the document... Read the bri… |
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Different disciplines within the social sciences have produced large theoretical and empirical literatures to explain the determinants of anti-immigration attitudes. We bring together these literatures in a unified framework and identify testable hypothesis on what characteristics of the individual and of the local environment are likely to have an impact on anti-immigration attitudes. While most… |
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The Council adopted conclusions on the participation and social inclusion of young people with the emphasis on those with a migrant background, which propose several actions to address this issue. They underline that non-formal and informal learning has a key role to play as an instrument for supporting the social and economic inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities and in particular th… |
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