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Integration from a Migration Perspective

This text discusses the social integration of migrants and refugees from a migration perspective and highlights the achievements and challenges in Costa Rica. It also mentions the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration (DGME) and the Migration Legislation.

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Integration from a Migration Perspective

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  1. Integration from a Migration Perspective

  2. Social Integration of Migrants and Refugees General migration and immigration law

  3. Migration Legislation • The General Directorate of Migration and Immigration (DGME) is the institution in charge of implementing migration policy as a decentralized body of the Ministry of the Interior and Police. • Act 8764 reflects a change in the management of the phenomenon of migration, based on the following four central themes:

  4. Migration Legislation • Article 3: Integration of migrants and refugees, respecting human life, diversity, culture, solidarity, gender equality and human rights. • Article 5: To foster the integration of migrants through the design of public policies and strategies.

  5. Migration Legislation Article 6.Promotes, regulates, guides and organizes the immigration and out-migration dynamics, to ensure that they contribute to national development through the economic, social and cultural growth of the Costa Rican society. Rights and duties of migrants.

  6. Migration Legislation Article 13: • Paragraph 30: To integrate migrants into Costa Rican society, as well as Costa Rican nationals living abroad. • Paragraph 34: To repatriate Costa Rican nationals living abroad based on humanitarian grounds. Furthermore, to repatriate the bodies of deceased Costa Rican nationals.

  7. Migration Legislation Article 31. Foreign nationals shall enjoy the individual and social rights and guarantees recognized for Costa Rican nationals in the Political Constitution, except for the limitations established in the Constitution. The regulations relating to the fundamental rights of foreign nationals shall be interpreted in accordance with human rights conventions and current ratified international treaties and agreements.

  8. Resources from the Social Migration Fund • The resources from the Social Migration Fund are collected through the payment of $25 for migration services(Article 33, Paragraph 3, General Migration and Immigration Act No. 8764) • The Social Migration Fund is intended to support the social integration of migrant populations into national migration, health, education, security and justice services, as well as the repatriation of Costa Rican nationals.

  9. Beneficiaries of the Social Migration Fund

  10. ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES

  11. Achievements • “Migramóvil” Programme: Visiting communities with high numbers of migrants and refugees and providing personalized migration services. Approximately 1.017 persons were served during the first half of 2015.

  12. Achievements • Assistance to foreign indigenous populations: Including Title V: “Treatment of indigenous populations”in the Immigration Regulations. The majority of indigenous populations assisted are Ngäbe – Buglé (Panamanian nationals) andMiskito (Nicaraguan and Honduran nationals).

  13. Achievements • Use of the resources from the Social Fund: • A project for the purchase of tents – Migramóvil Programme; • Repatriating foreign nationals detained in prisons to their country of origin or residence; • Building a health office in PeñasBlancas; • Incorporating migrant and refugee populations into development partnerships.

  14. Achievements • Supporting initiatives oriented toward the integration of refugees: • Project – “Vivir la integración”: Intends to encourage enterprises to develop corporate social responsibility programmes to support the integration of refugees in Costa Rica. The private sector can join this initiative through various actions: • 1. Considering refugees in their staff recruitment and hiring processes; • 2. Supporting training processes aimed at strengthening the employability profiles of refugees; • 3. Developing awareness-raising and communication processes; • 4. Including refugee entrepreneurs in their value chains, etc.

  15. Achievements • Project – “Modelo de graduación”: The objective of this model is to identify refugees and Costa Rican nationals in vulnerable situations and in conditions of dependency in order to help them become self-sufficient through a series of interventions.

  16. INTEGRATION VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

  17. A MODEL FOR INTEGRATION OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

  18. Challenges • To provide more services during the “Migramóvil” activities. • To execute the funds from the Social Migration Fund through projects aimed at ensuring the integration of migrant and refugee populations into migration, health and education services as well as development partnerships, public security and social adaptation services.

  19. Carmen Muñoz Quesada Vice-Minister of the Interior and Police cmquesada@mgp.go.cr THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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