Migration Policy Group

❓Why is there limited data on structural racism in Latvia? ✅ Watch and listen to our country expert Laima Berzina from Providus. ❗ Find out more about our project Tackling Structural & Institutional Racism in 8 EU Member States (Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Romania, Czechia, and Latvia) and which is supported by #RobertBoschStiftung 👉 bit.ly/3wpm2VR

This afternoon we had a productive first session developing our new communications strategy. Lots of reflections and ideas how to make our work more visible and impactful, watch this space! 😃 Isabelle Chopin Alexander Wolffhardt Basak Yavcan Sinem Yilmaz, PhD Özge Atmış Carmine Conte, PhD Olivia Long Shabnam Khezri Juris Lavrikovs Gergana Yovova

❓ How can we address structural racism to unlock the full potential of an inclusive society? ✅ Watch and listen to Valerie Duquette from the Mission of Canada to the EU and our national expert Sayaka Osanami Törngren from Malmö University. ❗ Find out more about our project Tackling Structural & Institutional Racism in 8 EU Member States (Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Romania, Czechia, and Latvia) and which is supported by hashtag #RobertBoschStiftung 👉 bit.ly/3wpm2VR

🤝 Today is the World Refugee Day, the international day to honour people who have been forced to flee. We champion their right to seek safety, build support for their economic and social inclusion, and advocate for solutions to their plight. We want to see legal, safe and secure access to asylum in the EU. The integration standards and policies for refugees among EU countries are hugely diverging and this is one of the reasons why the EU asylum system remains dysfunctional. You can find out more in our report “The European Benchmark for refugee integration: A Comparative analysis of the National Integration Evaluation Mechanism in 14 EU Countries” ▶ bit.ly/46rDQ00 To help national and local public authorities, and civil society organisations to better include and integrate refugees, Migration Policy Group in partnership with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, produced a handbook “Effective Inclusion of Refugees: participatory approaches for practitioners at the local level” packed with practical guidance and advice. ▶ bit.ly/4cs6Re9 European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) Platform for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) Red Cross EU Office International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) Eurocities International Rescue Committee EU

🔄 Is there a link between discrimination against Roma and structural racism? 👩🏫 Our national expert Romanita Iordache from Romania explains that structural racism is as root cause of discrimination against Roma. ❗ Find out more about our project Tackling Structural & Institutional Racism in 8 EU Member States (Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Romania, Czechia, and Latvia) and which is supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung 👉 bit.ly/3wpm2VR

🤔 What measure are taken in Spain to tackle structural racism? 👀 Watch and listen to our national expert Francesco Passetti from the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs - CIDOB, giving examples from his country. ❗ Find out more about our project Tackling Structural & Institutional Racism in 8 EU Member States (Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Romania, Czechia, and Latvia) and which is supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung 👉 bit.ly/3wpm2VR

❓ Why we need to address and tackle institutional racism, particularly at European level? ✅ Watch and listen to the national experts: Dionne Abdoelhafiezkhan from Controle Alt Delete Official in the Netherlands and Vasso Karzis from Antogini in Greece, providing the answers. ❗ Find out more about our project Tackling Structural & Institutional Racism in 8 EU Member States (Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Romania, Czechia, and Latvia) and which is supported by #RobertBoschStiftung 👉 bit.ly/3wpm2VR

🎉 Today, we held the experts workshop for our project Tackling Structural & Institutional Racism in 8 EU Member States (Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Romania, Czechia, and Latvia). Organised by MPG and with the support of Robert Bosch Stiftung, this initiative fosters strong collaboration and synergy among researchers, civil society organisations, and racialised communities at the national level to combat structural and institutional racism. 📹 Watch our Director Isabelle Chopin speaking about the purpose of this event in the video below. Carmine Conte, PhD, our Senior Policy Analyst, presented the key findings of the comparative research on structural racism in the 8 countries involved in the project, followed by Valerie Duquette from the Mission of Canada to the EU, who shared insights on learning from Canada's experiences. We also had interactive roundtable discussions with our country experts on key challenges regarding structural racism. 🌍 Together with our partners, we are committed to come up with key legal and policy recommendations for both the national and European level to fight structural racism. Read more about the project 👉 bit.ly/3wpm2VR

MPG together with rights organisations reacts to the #EUelections2024 results 👉 bit.ly/3yUeKe9 Isabelle Chopin

🇪🇺 Europe, start voting now! 🗳 Between 6 & 9 June, voters in 27 EU countries are casting their votes in the #EUelections2024. ❗ ❗Make sure you #UseYourVote for Europe you want! #EUisU Isabelle Chopin Juris Lavrikovs Sinem Yilmaz, PhD Carmine Conte, PhD Gergana Yovova Costanza Hippoliti