Integration

On 1st of April, the first round table organised within the project INTEGRO and titled “Finding suitable ways of integrating foreigners at the local level" took place at AKC in Prague 1.

Discussions were carried out with representatives of various entities (the city district authorities, ministries, NGOs and migrants). There was talk on how to better contribute the integration of foreigners at the local level and how to encourage foreigners to actively participate in events within their area.

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A considerable part of migrants living in the Czech Republic is moving and fulfilling themselves in their working environment and in the family or close friends circle. Their lives are missing an important dimension of active participation in social, cultural, economical and political events. Some of them have difficulties with orientation in public spaces. They are not able to express themselves appropriately and consciously. Others are not motivated or they miss the awareness of principles of the function of civil society. The new project INTEGRO Association for Integration and Migration (SIMI) endeavours to change this situation. Full integration of foreigners does not end at the door of their homes or workplaces.

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The three major Czech non-governmental organizations dealing with rights of foreigners Association for Integration and Migration, Organization for Aid to Refugees and Multicultural Centre Prague elaborated a comprehensive analysis on irregular migration, labor market and regularisation under the homonymic title to their common 2-year project „Regularisation as one of the tools in the fight against irregular migration“ and with a considerable contribution of foreign partner NGOs in the project SOS Racismo – Mugak from Spain and Solidariedade imigrante from Portugal.

Presentation of the analysis (in Czech only) and a brief summary can be found in the attachment hereto. We will gladly offer the integral analysis to the interested persons upon request at: valentova@refug.cz .

With the participation of experts and a general public, the final conference for the project "Regularization as one of the tools in the fight against irregular migration", took place on 12 April 2011 in Prague.

The conference summarised the 2-year lasting work of three Czech non-governmental organisations dealing with the rights of foreigners (legal counseling, surveys, study of relevant legislation, lobbying for rights of immigrants in the Parliament), namely Association for Integration and Migration, Organisation for Aid to Refugees and Multicultural Centre Prague.

The key topic of the conference coincided with one of the main goals of the project – promotion of regularisation in the Czech Republic.

All presentations screened at the conference and video records of separate panel sessions are available at thed project internet platform: http://www.migraceonline.cz/e-knihovna/?x=2291509

Association for Integration and Migration

Organisation for Aid to Refugees and

Multicultural Centre Prague

cordially invite you to the conference enclosing the public presentation of the project

Regularisation of Irregular Migration

12 April 2011, 9h - 16hPolish Institute, Karlova 27, Prague 1

· 3 panel discussions on issues related to the irregular migration: labour and labour conditions, access to health and to social services, removal and family rights of irregular migrants

· Participation of foreign partner in the project Solidariedade Imigrante (PT) and SOS Racismo – Mugak (ES)

· Presentations of representatives of Czech state authorities and non-governmental organisations

· Results of the survey executed among irregular migrants in the CR

· Videos with stories of irregular migrants in the EU

· Press conference

Working languages: Czech, Portuguese and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation

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