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Event: ‘Engage to Change: Integration – Where Next?’ – May 24 @ 6pm
You are invited to attend the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum’s
Engage to Change:
Integration – Where next?
Thursday, May 24, 2012
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Our key note speaker is Don Flynn, Director of Migrants Rights Network.
The government’s Creating the Conditions for Integration strategy transfers responsibility for integration to local areas, without refering to [...]
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Short Film – Digital Activism For All
Last year, I completed the digital activism course and was inspired by the projects of other students. I wanted to make a short film to let others know about their dynamic work.
They just need the tools to let the world know what they are doing. They are inspirational and courageous. Digital activism is a democratic [...]
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Meet the Forum: Dario
Communications Intern
My name is Dario and I am from Italy. Currently I am a Master’s student in International Relation at the University of Venice. I think my biggest passion is reading…I really love books; I could stare at them for hours.
Where do you live now?
I am currently living in Grove Park but in a [...]
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London Mayoral Elections – Have your say on the 3rd of May!
On 27th March, the Forum held an Engage to Change discussion on the London Mayoral elections to be held on 3rd of May 2012. We focused on election issues relevant to migrant and refugee communities in London and voter registration and voting procedures. Here is an update on questions raised during the meeting and other [...]
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Integration through Social Enterprise: ‘Social enterprise could rescue charities from cuts’
This article was originally published on the Guardian Social Enterprise Network. To see the original post, go to socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk.
A year ago, when the spending cuts started to bite, it became clear that two projects at the Forum were facing with two options: do or die.
For civil society working with migrants, Big Society is more of a [...]
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A Canadian Integration Story – Part 1
Imagine this…
You fled a great calamity to arrive into a new country. You are shocked in every way possible. A friendly border officer welcomes you and your family with an aid of a person speaking your language. In the first week, you feel like a baby – the world is strange and new and [...]
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A Canadian Integration Story – Part 2
This somewhat rosy picture of integration is a lived experience of many immigrants to Canada (true for my large Bosnian family) where they get integrated into the mainstream society much more successfully as a result of a deliberate public policy. What are the elements of this policy and how does it work?
First, Canadian public narrative [...]
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Integrated Media – A New Social Enterprise to Provide Digital Media Training for All
Last night, the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum launched our social enterprise – Integrated Media UK. For the past two years, we have provided quality, in-depth digital trainings for migrants and refugees. Now we are openning our expertise to the general public.
Bespoke Support
This new social enterprise provides bespoke digital media training for individuals, charities and [...]
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Integration and Prevent 2.0: Are they a break from the past or more of the same?
This article was originally published on The Huffington Post UK. To see the original post, go to www.huffingtonpost.co.uk.
Back in June 2011, the Government presented their policy on counter terrorism- sold to us as the new Prevent strategy (what I call Prevent 2.0)- which supposedly signified a radical shift from Labour’s approach to stopping extremism.
Theresa May [...]
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Why should migrants care about the Mayor of London?
VOTE for MAYOR on May 3rd
Londoner’s daily life is touched by decisions of our Mayor more than by those of the national government. If you travel on a tube or bus to work, have children of school age, struggle to find affordable accommodation and wish for safer streets – you should pay close attention in [...]
