Practice
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The Portuguese Immigration Observatory (IO) project (NEW UPDATE)
13 Jan 2012The research project ‘UP2YOUTH- Youth: actor of social change’ is a European project which presents a collection policies for young people in Europe. The idea behind this collection is to indicate how current practices and policies relate to young people as active agents in shaping their lives.
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Overcoming attitudes to engage with the Roma (NEW UPDATE)
13 Jan 2012There have been made many efforts by local, national and European level to include the Roma population. Despite these efforts the Roma people still face high levels of social exclusion.
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Supporting access to employment for Roma (NEW UPDATE)
10 Jan 2012Participation in the labour market is an important condition for a successful integration process. Access to employment is for the members of the Roma community is often not self-evident. With the programme ‘Fight against Discrimination’, 13 Spanish regions and more than 40 city councils support the access to the labour market for the, namely unemployed and unskilled young, Roma.
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The Ipswich Polish Club
12 Mar 2009Each year, more and more Polish migrant workers are establishing themselves in Ipswich (UK). It is, therefore, important not to let migrant groups recede into isolation where social problems can occur, but to open the doors to those whose real home is far away. Families, husbands, wives and children, relatives and friends may be a good distance away. ´The Ipswich Polish Club´ will help to provide a small haven to relax and feel at ease with familiar surroundings. This club is specially designed to prevent Polish migrants from isolation and at the same time stimulate their integration into this area´s community.
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One Stop Shop: Mainstreaming Integration
27 Feb 2009Housing and employment, visas and banking, schools and hospitals, or a soccer pitch for week-end recreation? Where to start when you need help settling into a new neighbourhood and job? The One Stop Shop model streamlines services to immigrants into one service location. This helps integrate migrants into both city life and work much faster and with less frustration and fewer false starts.
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Integration Service (Antwerp Integratiedienst)
10 Oct 2008The Integration Service was created by the combination of the Reception Office, the Interpreters Service and the Integration Officer. It want to combine the diversity management and the equal opportunity policy. Diversity management is considered as an inclusive task for all city services, with the Integration Service as supporting element. The IS and in particular the IS diversity consultants developed intensive contacts with some other services such as the Urban Poverty Department.
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Portraits of immigrant women
07 Dec 2009The Local Development Agent for Integration (ADLI) is carrying out a survey concerning immigrant women in Alsace (France) and their position on the labour market. The results of this survey will determine actions, projects, working groups and other activities.
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Solidarcité - Brussels, Belgium
21 Mar 2006Solidarcité provides a 'social year' for young people between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five who suffer both economic and social exclusion. During that time the young people are helped back towards the regular labour market through volunteer work, training courses and placements.
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Programme for Employment and Social Integration of Female Immigrants, Puente de Vallecas (Madrid) - ES
24 Dec 2008COSMI (Centre for Social and Employment Orientation of Women Immigrants) runs an employment insertion programme for women immigrants in the district of Vallecas in Madrid. The programme is directed at women immigrants that have particular difficulties in finding employment. The programme is personalized, progressive and gradual. The main objectives are social, employment and legal attention for immigrant women to complete their employment and social insertion into spanish society.
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“We are Hamburg! Won’t you join us?”
28 Jan 2010Recruitment and integration of young people of migrant origin into the Hamburg public service training system “We are Hamburg! Won’t you join us?” is an important project in the city of Hamburg. It aims to recruit and integraste young, urban migrants into the Hamberug service training system. Every year the Hamburg based public service department offers more than 500 training places in six different occupational fields: general administration, law courts, prison, police, fire service and tax authority. German or EU citizenship is not mandatory for acquiring “Beamte” status, a civil service category with prospect of lifelong job security in the Hamburg administration. On successful completion of training, there are good chances of being taken into secure employment.
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Assimilating the other way around - Delft
01 Oct 2008How can you bring native-born Dutch people into contact with the immigrant communities in order to promote integration?