Book Description

This series will provide summaries of the key findings of the research being conducted as part of this project and will draw on the experiences of policymakers, practitioners, migrants and citizens to develop proposals for policy, legislative frameworks, strategies and programmes to promote and facilitate co-operation and integration between citizens and migrants. [...] In response to the attacks, the government identified a three-part strategy: firstly, to bring an end to the violence and to prevent further outbreaks of violence; secondly, to provide emergency and humanitarian relief to the victims of the violence and thirdly, to "reintegrate" people displaced by the violence. [...] Responding to these challenges, Idasa has set up a project on Migration and Social Cohesion with the following objectives: (a) To gain an understanding of the obstacles and impediments to the integration of migrants and their potential contribution to development and poverty reduction, and to develop strategies to minimise these obstacles and impediments. [...] In support of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families, the argument was made that "...as migration has increased the response to migrants and their presence has deteriorated from acceptance and assistance, to hostility and rejection. [...] The problem of course is that the signing and ratification of international instruments such as the UDHR and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families, while significant and important, is but one step in setting out the - 7 - rights and obligations of migrants.