Integration up North

What is Integration up North?

‘Integration up North’ is a project to improve and mainstream the integration of third country nationals [TCN’s] through a programme of research, training, guidance, strategic support and migrant participation for local authorities and other key policy-makers and practitioners. Third country nationals are people who have come to Britain to settle and who are not citizens of a European Economic Area country or refugees.

The project runs from July 2014 to June 2015, and builds on the previous 3 year project. It is funded by a grant from the European Integration Fund.

Project partners

The key partners in the project this year are:

• Migration Yorkshire [lead partner] – running the training programme and writing guidance booklets
• MigrationWork  providing advice, strategic support and assistance to partners 
• University of Salford  carrying out research and disseminating research findings

What will the project do?

• Interview TCNs about their integration experiences and share the findings throughout Yorkshire and Humber.
• Recruit TCN as volunteers to help inform the work of the project.
• Support a network of local ‘migration champions’ in statutory services across the region to improve their knowledge of working with migrants, and that of their organisation.
• Run training sessions in local authorities and other organisations for staff working with specific TCN groups [for example: women, young people and children, the elderly, people with disabilities and illiterate / innumerate people].
• Provide support to local authorities and other organisations to review and develop policies on integration.
• Write a new range of migration guidance booklets.

Migration resources produced by the project

• Research: interim briefing note Initial findings from our local research project investigating the settlement and integration experiences of newly-arrived third country nationals living in the North of England.
• Introduction to migration a series of booklets on migration, covering issues such as key terms, rights and entitlements.
• Local migration profiles [LMPs] – documents describing the main migration trends and data available for particular areas of Yorkshire and Humber. You can download summaries of recent local migration profiles from the statistics pages. 
• Migration maps Maps of migration-related data for each local authority in Yorkshire and Humber, primarily using Census 2011 data.
• A searchable online database of summaries of research about migrants who have arrived in Yorkshire and Humber since 1999.
• Migration in Yorkshire and Humber: an overview  A review of what’s happening about migration in the region, with a short description of migration past and present, support initiatives, leadership and challenges facing service providers in 2014.
• Who are migrants?  Easy-to-use guide.

Your contact for more information

Bill Dennis - Integration and Partnerships Manager
Migration Yorkshire
Phone: 0113 395 2438 or 07712 214128
Email: bill.dennis@migrationyorkshire.org.uk