Local Answers to Welcoming Refugees and Preparing for the Longer Term
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This document discusses local responses to welcoming refugees and preparing for long-term integration. It outlines the rights that refugees are entitled to under international law, including protection from expulsion, access to housing, education, work, and courts. The focus of the workshop is on analyzing the roles of various local actors in refugee reception and integration, specifically the roles of social enterprises and civil society organizations. Key questions for debate include how to facilitate coordination between local authorities and organizations, maximize the contributions of local actors, and ensure programs lead to successful long-term refugee reception and integration.
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Local Answers to Welcoming Refugees and Preparing for the Longer Term
- 1. LOCAL ANSWERS TO WELCOMING REFUGEES AND PREPARING FOR THE LONGER TERM ANTONELLA NOYA Senior Policy Analyst CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SMEs, LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LEED DIVISION 19 April 2016, Venice
- 5. • The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol: the cornerstone of modern refugee protection • Refugee :is someone who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.” Refugees in the international law
- 6. • The right not to be expelled, except under certain, strictly defined conditions (Article 32); • The right not to be punished for illegal entry into the territory of a contracting State (Article31); • The right to work (Articles 17 to 19); • The right to housing (Article 21); • The right to education (Article 22); • The right to public relief and assistance (Article 23); • The right to freedom of religion (Article 4); • The right to access the courts (Article 16); • The right to freedom of movement within the territory (Article 26); • The right to be issued identity and travel documents (Articles 27 and 28) Rights of refugees (1951 Refugees convention)
- 7. • Analyse the role of the various actors in refugee reception and integration and especially the role of social enterprises and civil society organisations • Discuss how local authorities, public institutions, social enterprises and civil society organisations, private business, and citizens can work together to provide impactful, tailored, and effective responses at the local level. Focus of the workshop
- 8. What are the underlying factors of programmes and initiatives that ensure the successful reception and integration of refugees? How can coordination and interaction among local actors be facilitated, specifically between local authorities and civil society organisations such as social enterprises? • How can we maximise the impact of the contributions of a wide variety of local actors while reducing inefficiencies? Questions for the debate
- 9. This year Fortune’s “World’s greatest leaders” lists comprises an original, “new entry”: Domenico Lucano, mayor of the small town of Riace on the Calabrian coast. http://fortune.com/worlds-greatest-leaders/domenico-lucano-40 • The village of 1800 inhabitants greeted a few years ago some 200 refugees and some 130 more are now settling with the mayor creating a special scheme for them and helping saving the village from a mass exodus. • Apartments are given to them and training and jobs opportunities
- 10. When refugees are resources for localities! http://citiscope.org/story/2015/italy-struggling-town-looks-refugees- revival LEED Call for Initiatives : http://www.oecd.org/fr/cfe/leed /call-local-refugees.htm LEED Platform on local responses to the refugee crisis : https://refugeelocalwelcome.wor dpress.com/
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- . The legal principles they enshrine have permeated into many international, regional, and national laws and practices. The 1951 Convention defines who is a refugee and outlines the basic rights which States should afford to refugees.
- ucano says in the past 18 years the town has welcomed more than 6,000 migrants. As they arrived in Riace, an aging place with high unemployment, the mayor sensed an opportunity to revive what was quickly becoming a ghost town. He offered refugees abandoned apartments and job training. Kurdish refugee Bahram Akar, 50, has lived in Riace for 18 years. Sylvia Poggioli/NPR Bahram Akar, 50, arrived one night in the summer of 1998 on a boat carrying him and about 250 other Kurdish refugees. "Next day, in the sunlight," Akar said, "I looked at the landscape and I liked it immediately. It felt like home." The town receives about $40 a day in government subsidies for each refugee for one year. A portion goes to the migrants and the rest pays for their living expenses. Once they've received regular documents, most move on to northern Europe, where more jobs are available. Zara Hosseini, 34, sells her embroidery in Riace. The Afghan migrant arrived in the southern Italian town three years ago. Sylvia Poggioli/NPR But some, like Akar, remain. Their impact can be seen in the town's shops. Zara Hosseini, 34, weaves fabric on a loom and then embroiders it with delicate needlework. She and her daughter fled Afghanistan and arrived in Riace three years ago after a harrowing trip across land and sea. She says she feels safe here. "The Taliban are very, very bad for women," she says, speaking Italian. "Terrible, no democracy, women are kept down. I came to Europe so that my daughter could go to school. I don't want her to die in war." Selma Giamah, a young Somali woman, also works in the shop. Despite her halting Italian, she's able to convey the horrors she went through fleeing her country. Her journey took her through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya, where smugglers kept her captive for eight months. Somali refugee Selma Giamah arrived in Riace two years ago after a horrific journey through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya. She has no intention of leaving. Sylvia Poggioli/NPR "They made us sleep on the filthy ground," she says. "They kept asking for money. They beat us. No food. No water. Then three men took me outside." Selma's voice drops off but her expression and gestures make very clear what the men did to her. She's been in Riace for two years and has no intention of leaving. In contrast to other parts of Europe, Riace's natives say the migrant experiment has been good for the town. Mirella Cogocoru credits their arrival with enabling her to expand her bakery into a grocery store and to open a cafe next door. "It's good the migrants are here," she says. "The town is now full of people. Before, there was nothing, no work." Mayor Lucano — who is bemused to have appeared on Fortune magazine's list of 50 great world leaders — doesn't claim Riace's choice can work everywhere. But he offers his town's experience as a counter to European politicians who keep migrants out. "To those Europeans who fear migrants bring disease, take away their jobs and sense of security," he says, "they bring us their culture, their world, their colors and their knowledge."