Achieving the Integration of Migrant communities and Ethnic Residents

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AIMER focuses on the challenge facing local authorities and community organisations in integrating newly arrived migrants and in enabling established ethnic minority communities to improve access to jobs and services. The overarching aim is to demonstrate a model approach to assist local areas across the crossborder zone to integrate ethnic minorities. The partners are coming together to address an issue which is specific to the 2 seas area and which needs to be looked at from all angles. With migration issues being so topical, AIMER hopes to define good practice examples of how ethnic minority community organisations can come together to engage in dialogue with the local authorities. They will first examine existing approaches to the welcoming and integration of new migrants. Partners will also look at the design of new methods and actions to welcome new arrival communities and communicate effectively to them the protocols of the host community. AIMER will then concentrate on both legal and cultural mediation, working with ethnic minority communities to create new community organisations.

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