Integration 
Overview
Friday, 03 September 2010
Launch of 'Count Us In' – February 17th, 2011 – featuring Ms Eva Pau, Dr Jasbir Puri, Dr Lawrence Lee, Dr Theophilus Erjoh and Ali Selim.
Integration, interculturalism, citizenship, democracy and identity are issues of crucial importance in Irish society today.
The ICI believes that, central to any assessment of the success of integration policies in Ireland is the question of whether there exist barriers to migrants' full participation in society based on status, country of origin, "race", "ethnicity", educational achievement or cultural background.
The ICI's work in the area of integration is aimed at promoting participation and leadership, political, economic, social and cultural integration in Ireland. Through this work, the ICI is involved in facilitating and fostering regular interactions between migrants and the wider population.
October 2011:
Taking Racism Seriously: Migrants’ Experiences of Violence, Harassment and Anti-social Behaviour in the Dublin Area
The report of the racism research commissioned by the ICI and undertaken by Professor Bryan Fanning (University College Dublin) has been launched on October 4th 2011, in the Civic Offices at Wood Quay.
The research, funded by Dublin City Council, explored the experiences of people accessing the ICI’s anti-racism support services, a number of case studies and focus group interviews with Asian healthcare workers, Dublin Bus drivers and the LUAS’s revenue protection officers
To read and download the research, please click on the following link:
September 2011:
The Pathways to Parental Leadership project is an initiative of the ICI, funded by the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation through the European Programme for Integration and Migration. The project aims to foster migrant parents’ involvement in the school lives of their children. The overall objective of the project is to improve the quality of the education of migrant children and ultimately to strengthen the voice of migrants in the community. The toolkit is being aimed at schools and gives them advice on how to encourage parental involvement and meet the needs of a diverse society. It has been piloted in five schools around the Dublin area and was launched on 13th September 2011.
Please click here to view and download the Pathways to Parental Leadership Toolkit.
Please click here to view and download the Supplemental Materials for the Toolkit.
MIPEX III
The Immigrant Council of Ireland was a project partner for Ireland, along with the British Council, in the Migrant Integration Policy Index III (MIPEX III) study. MIPEX III compares integration policies across 31 countries in Europe and North America and ranks Ireland across 148 policy indicators. (see www.mipex.eu)
Overall, Ireland ranked 16th out of the 31 countries whose policies were examined for the study. Ireland performed well in some areas, for example, in its policies relating to political participation by migrants. However, it compared very poorly in a number of areas of key concern to the ICI, for example, Ireland ranked lowest in terms of its family reunion policies and fourth lowest in terms of access to long-term residence.
The Migration Policy Group (MPG) and the British Council are the lead partners for the MIPEX III project. The ICI and the British Council are co-hosting a stakeholders' briefing on the MIPEX III study's findings in relation to Ireland, as well as a special briefing for TDs, on April 13, 2011. MPG Policy Analyst Thomas Huddleston will address the briefings.