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Family Matters: Strategies for Integrating Immigrant and Refugee Families

1. Presentation by Ramon Sanahuja, Director of Migrants Attention and Welcoming Policies, City of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) 2. Presentation by Tamara Sabarini, Project Coordinator, Ryerson University Lifeline Syria Challenge (Toronto, Canada) 3. Q&A moderated by Kim Turner, Cities of Migration, Global Diversity Exchange (Toronto, Canada)

Webinar recording will be available on the website: www.citiesofmigration.ca

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Family Matters: Strategies for integrating immigrants and refugee families in Barcelona

Regrouping families and Reinforcing integration

Ramon Sanahuja i Vélez Director of Attention and welcoming of Migrants Municipality of Barcelona

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Demographic evolution of immigration in Barcelona

2016: Barcelona has a foreign population

• f (267.790) which

represents 16,7% of the resident population

53,428 74,019 113,809 163,046 202,489 230,942 260,058 250,789 280,817 294,918 284,632 278,320 282,178 280,047 267,578 262,233 267,790

50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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Immigrant places of origin

26,993 19,192 18,448 13,671 12,552 9,280 8,682 8,108 7,955 7,930 7,029 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 Italy Pakistan China France Morocco Bolivia Philippines Ecuador Peru Colombia Romania

Number of foreign residents in Barcelona by country of origin, 2016

EU Europe; 82.924; 31% Resta of Europe; 13.717; 5% Asia; 67.494; 25% Africa; 19.508; 8% South America, 83,516, 31% Oceania; 412 ; 0,2% Sateless ; 219; 0,1%

Continent (2016)

VISION

The Municipality would like to facilitate full citizenship to families that bring their relatives to the city of Barcelona. Barcelona is becoming their new home for their children, couples and parents. It is also an

• pportunity for the city to become a friendly place for newcomers,

making a special effort in order to support the process of regrouping families. Article 16. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (1) Men and women

• f full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion,…(3)

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

TARGET POPULATION

Families in the family reunification process: those who are already are in Barcelona and newly arrived members. Families are very important: the municipality wants to support and strengthen families.

New Families in Barcelona Program

Specific Objectives

• Reinforcing family reunification guidance and support (with special assistance

being provided to all families who start a process.).

• Providing immigrants with better initial information on their host society and

their rights and duties and foster their autonomy and self confidence.

• Offering specific services for children and teenagers arriving in Barcelona with

their families, to help them fully settle into their new city.

• Providing psychological support and group support during a difficult process of

reunification to the different members of the family.

• Reinforcing the role of the women being in a process of family reunification,

taking into account the risks of gender inequality.

• Helping mainstream service to cope with the impact of new arrivals to their

services (focus on education system)

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Why should the City invest in family regrouping?

• Family regrouping is a turning point of migrants journey. Migrants who regroup have

reached some economic stability in our society (legal status, income , household…) They have decided to settle in our city, and want to bring their family.

• Shift in attitude towards host society. Migrants who want to regroup begin to show

more interest in the education system, facilities for youth and children, etc. This is an important moment for the local welcoming policies and programs; they are very receptive.

• Migrants become receptive to language learning: they would like to help their children

with homework!

• Once they bring their family, migrants plan their future in their host city rather than in

the past or origin country: Once they regroup with their family members, the remittance to their country of origin decreases.

• Family reunification can be a stressful moment for families after years of separation:
• ffering peer support groups and psychological support can alleviate anxiety and help

adjustment period.

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How do we do it?

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2 Stages

Before the arrival of family

members (initial welcome)

After the arrival of family

members (Guidance & Mentoring)

• The program is offered to all the families that have started the process of reunification
• Families from outside the EU need a housing report from the municipality in order to start a reunification process.
• Each programme family regrouping candidate will be called by the municipality in order to initiate the reunification

and eventual arrival of the family members. Once the family has settled in, the programme will follow up on their integration process.

Initial welcome

• Initial meeting (general information and legal assessment)
• First contact with family
• Workshop for parents about what they will need in Barcelona
• Informative sessions for parents about how to study in Barcelona

Initial monitoring We provide:

• Legal assessment before and during the regrouping for

individual and groups.

• Information on the difficulties of the legal process.
• Information on the education system.

We start introducing group sessions:

• Initial meetings
• Workshop for “Mothers and father” , in some cases

individual support.

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BEFORE regrouping

Specific support to women

• Workshop for Spanish speaking women
• Workshop for Pakistani and Indian women
• Workshop for women from Maghreb.
• Workshop “We cook with letters"
• Workshop “We sew with letters"
• Activities in the outside
• Language conversation with volunteers

Workshops for women/men

Gender and cultural attention:

The aim of the gender oriented workshops is to widening the opportunities and avoid the isolation of regrouping women by establishing a confident network with other women in similar situation and empowering themselves by being in contact with the city .

• The programme underlines women rights in the host society.
• The workshops and activities provide a friendly environment to know about the new social milieu,

language and culture of host society.

• There are different approaches depending on different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

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AFTER

family members have arrived

BEFORE regrouping

Specific support to youth

• Education orientation service
• Get Ready!
• Barcelona Welcomes You in the Summer
• Meeting point

Youth regrouping projects

Prepare for Education:

There is personal orientation for each child and youth in the process of regrouping with their family, considering the parental conflicts and psychological difficulties in their particular process of emigration. Also, monitoring them for a successful integration in to the education system in Barcelona.

• Educational orientation service. A team of educational psychologists work in the programme to monitor

young new arrivals individually to ensure they are integrated into their new educational environment as soon as possible and are aware of council initiatives in their neighbourhood.

• Get Ready! A specific guidance service for 16-to 19 year old youngsters with good academic record who

want to apply for higher education.

• Barcelona Welcomes You in the Summer. The main goal of this project is to create a series of educational

and leisure activities aimed at familiarizing in a positive way with the city of Barcelona and adapting to it during the summer period

• Meeting point. A group of social activities designed in order to learn about the new environment and

engage teenagers and youth outside of school

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AFTER

family members have arrived

Guidance & Mentoring for regrouped families

Personal attention

8.8% 15.0% 2.2% 1.2% 0.9% 1.3% 2.3% 1.1% 12.9% 2.1% 0.1% 4.3% 1.1% 6.4% 22.8% 17.5%

Type of information delivered to families

Free time Support in the relationship with descendants Approach to the neighborhood for the youngters Psychological support Healthcare Basic needs Labour market Housing Formal education

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 Each family receive specific attention about their needs and demands.  Each family receive guidance sessions about how the need to deal with new family relationships.

BEFORE regrouping AFTER

family members have arrived

An interdisciplinary team

A group of high qualified professionals

The program team consists of 17 professionals in education, psychologists, cultural mediators, translators and lawyers, gender specialist with specific qualification in social work and intercultural skills. During 2 months in summer: additional 16 youngster instructors. Budget for 2017: 712.555 Euros.

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Key aspects:

• Work with mainstream services of the city: education, libraries, leisure for youngster, women’s department
• “Tailor made” solution s for specific communities (Ex: PIBN,: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal)
• Special attention to gender issues and strategy to reach isolated women once they are regrouped.

Some indicators (2010 – 2016)

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18.458

Housing reports

9.879

families

7.282

arrivals detected

58% Women

21% from Pakistan

38% Latin America 35% India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Regrouping Families Programme

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http://www.bcn.cat/novaciutadania/arees/en/acollida/reagrupament_familiar.html

Our website

Videos of the programme · Overview of the programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy2JNQZTR5g · Our work with youngsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Y8OBnlLNk · Workshop with women who are recently regrouped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMdFjVbpY44 · Workshop with parents who are starting a regrouping process:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN7Q3W_zjYg Summer program Barcelona host you for youngsters: https://youtu.be/__B_x0lRc6k

Ramon Sanahuja i Vélez Director of Attention and welcoming of Migrants Municipality of Barcelona rsanahuja@bcn.cat

17 Tamara Sabarini, Project Coordinator, RU Lifeline Syria Challenge May 17, 2017

Cities of Migration Webinar: Local Strategies for Integrating Refugee Families – A Pan-University Approach

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Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Canada

Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program began in 1979 in response to the Indochinese refugee crisis – since then more than 230,000 PSRs have resettled in Canada.

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Canada’s Commitment Resettle Syrian Refugees

Key Figures:

• 14,000+ Syrian PSRs have arrived to Canada between November 2015 – January 2017
• 4,300+ Syrian PSRs have arrived in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area
• 292 Syrian PSRs have arrived through Ryerson University Lifeline Syria Challenge (RULSC) to date

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TORONTO: Ryerson University Lifeline Syria Challenge

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Creation of Ryerson University Lifeline Syria Challenge

SPONSORING 120+ SYRIAN REFUGEE FAMILIES

434 SYRIAN REFUGEES 90 SPONSORSHIP TEAMS 6,958 INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS RAISED ALMOST $5,000,000

OVER 1,000 STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY AND COMMUNITY MEMBER VOLUNTEERS

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Student Experiential Learning

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Provide emotional and moral support Open a bank account

Families: Arrival, Settlement, Integration

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Students Helping Refugee Families

• Peer Mentoring Committee has matched 20 RU students to Syrian newcomer youth
• ESL Committee hosts workshops that offer one-on-one support and individualized

conversation practice between students and Syrian newcomers

• Early Childhood Education Committee offers babysitting services for Syrian newcomer

parents

• Hundreds of students joined the Arabic Interpretation and Translation Committee to

provide ongoing support to newcomer families with their Arabic language skills

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Project Impact

FAMILY REUNIFICATION

• Over 120 families are being reunited in a safe place

INCREASED SOCIAL CAPITAL

• Networks formed to increase economic and cultural capital of

families EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

• Over 1000 students, staff, faculty & community member

volunteers SOCIAL INNOVATION

• Leveraged infrastructure of post-secondary

institutions to drive social change RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

• Greater Toronto Airports Authority; local hospitals;

settlement organizations; government organizations ENGAGING CANADIANS

• Opportunity to respond to a humanitarian crisis

COLLABO RATE TO INNOVATE ASSESS & EVALUATE MANAGE

EXPECTATI ONS BE FLEXIBLE

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Lessons Learned

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THANK YOU

TAMARA SABARINI Project Coordinator Tamara.sabarini@ryerson.ca 416-262-8094 x. 3645 Ryerson.ca/lifelinesyria

Acknowledgments

Family Matters: Strategies for Integrating Immigrant and Refugee Families

www.citiesofmigration.org

• Ramon Sanahuja, Director of Migrants Attention and

Welcoming Policies, City of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

• Tamara Sabarini, Project Coordinator, Ryerson University

Lifeline Syria Challenge (Toronto, Canada)

• Kim Turner, Cities of Migration, Global Diversity

Exchange (Toronto, Canada)