Anne Hubbard and Constance Nzeneu at WCVA's 2013 Volunteering Conference, exploring the volunteering contribution of migrants.

1. Wales Migration Partnership
Volunteering without Limits

2. Statistics
• According to the 2011 census, there were 167,871
people living in Wales who were born outside the UK.
This represents 5.5% of the total population.
(Heaven Crawley/WMP, International Migrants in Wales)
• In 2011 there was a net outflow of international
migrants from Wales for the first time since 1993.
• The largest cohort of people outside the UK in Wales
are from Poland, India, Germany, Ireland and the
Philippines. (ONS 2012)

3. Research on Fiscal contribution
• Overall, migrants from the EU who have come to the
UK after 2004 made a net fiscal contribution to the UK
with no negative impact on the UK welfare system.
• Overall there have been no negative effects on the
Welsh labour market (Heaven Crawley, Migration in Wales, WMP
Briefing Paper, 2013)

4. Women Migrants; some facts
• 95 million women and girls … make up half of all
international migrants
http://archives.migrationanddevelopment.net/popular-press-
news/?cs_uids:list=1096bc37b2cb06aa955630a973e082fd

5. Reasons for migration;
temporary and seasonal work, family reunion, forced
migration (fleeing conflict), human smuggling and
trafficking, labour migration, as students…

6. Work and remittances
• Recent research on remittances shows that female
migrants, many working as cleaners, carers and
waitresses, are supporting an average of seven
people back in their home countries, making a
significantly bigger contribution to development then
men in this area.

7. …

8. Asylum seekers and Refugees

9. The population of asylum seekers
living in Wales;
• Wales accommodates approximately 1500 dispersed
asylum seekers (as at May 2012). Of these 825 are
dependants of the main applicant.
• The top 5 nationalities of asylum seekers in Wales are:
Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, People's Republic of China
and Nigeria.
• The most common age group of asylum seekers is 30-
34 years (including single people and heads of
families).
• Of the 684 males overall in Wales, 36% are single and
18% are in families. Of the 634 Females overall, 9% are
single and 37% are in families.

10. Global Migration Systems
“The reality is that within a global migration
system … there is a squeeze on the social, cultural and
physical spaces that people need to make a success of
their migration..
In their place are stringent government
regulations and borders policies that decide where
people can live and work and which services they can
access”. (Don Flynn, Migrant Rights Network)

11. Potential
“The migrant communities we work with are not
dominated by victimhood. There is a huge capacity to
fight back and change the environment that they are
in.”
(Don Flynn, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented
Migrants).

12. Volunteering
Many migrants make a success of their migration through
volunteering;
“Volunteering was the beginning of the change in
me”.
Asylum seeker volunteer, SOVA.

13. Resilience
• “Women who are lucky to find themselves in a good
and conducive environment with reasonable, caring
and loving partners are able to function effectively in
their roles as mothers, wives, breadwinners, soul
mates, homemakers and nation builders”.
(Asylum Seeking Woman, Wales)

14. Constance Nzeneu; Migrant Woman
of the Year Award; 2013
Constance with Julie Morgan, AM, and friends and
colleagues, after receiving her award.

15. WSSAG; Ownership of our own destiny.
Refugee Week event, June 2013.

16. Closing thoughts ..
• The only difference between man and man all the
world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as
there is between trees of the same species. Where in
is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
(Mahatma Ghandi)
• The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical
fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture,
the less tolerance it offers. (Joe Salatin)
• One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself
is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces
you to pay attention to those details of life which
differentiate them from you. (Edward T Hall)

17. The WMP CHAIR; Rev Aled Edwards
OBE

18. WMP Team
Zsanett Shashaty, Pat Westow, Selina Moyo, Anne Hubbard, Leanne
Dalton, Kathryn Tucker.
TEL; 02920 909550, www.wmp.org.uk