Good Ideas in Integration

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Discover find practices which promote the civic and political participation of immigrants in city life and enhance intercultural understanding within the broader community. This includes citizenship training, voting rights and participation, volunteering, and intercultural and inter-religious dialogue.

Auckland, New Zealand
Walking School Bus

School parents promote child health and safely while building community, one step at a time.

Boston, Massachusetts
MIRA: Media Advocacy With A Human Face

Using personal stories to re-frame a communications campaign

Dublin, Ireland
Did You Know You Can Vote? Cities and Democracy at Work

A city framework for integration makes voting rights the key to immigrant empowerment

Fort Wayne, United States
Gateway to Little Burma

New gateway cities make newcomer communities count -and be counted.

Frankfurt, Germany
"School For Mama and Me!": Language Lessons For Parents

Opening doors to language learning at school for immigrant parents and children—together!

Glasgow, Scotland
Connecting Nurses to Healthy Employment

Connecting international health workers to professional and social networks helps unions boost recruitment and retain a healthy workforce

Lisbon, Portugal
One Stop Shop: Mainstreaming Integration

Centralized service centres for improved coordination and better services to newcomers

London, United Kingdom
Time Together: Mentoring for Daily Life

Matching ordinary citizens to ordinary acts promotes refugee integration through friendship

London, United Kingdom
The London Living Wage Campaign

City of London signs on to successful community campaign to improve city wages and monitor employment practices

Los Angeles, United States
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote!

Citizenship training and political participation coming together for new immigrant voices

Oldham, United Kingdom
Peacemaker: All People, All Communities

Empowering youth to over come racial self-segregation in their own communities

Oslo, Norway
Oslo Extra Large

Making city leadership accountable to its policies for inclusion.

Paris, France
Narratives of Belonging

Young people using film express identity and belonging.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Urban Citizenship and Identity: Tariq Ramadan

"Integration is a concept from the past. "Contribution" is the concept of the future." - Dr. Tariq Ramadan

San Francisco, United States
Traffic! Advocating for Environmental Health

Going beyond the "usual" immigrant issues to empower a community to seek change

Sheffield, United Kingdom
Cities of Sanctuary, Communities of Welcome

An official city policy to welcome those in need builds a community supportive of refugees and new immigrants.

The Hague, Netherlands
City Mondial: Looking Forward from the Past

Using a multicultural history to support local business development and tourism strategies

Toronto, Canada
Citizens For Citizenship

Citizenship ceremonies bring communities together in celebration.

Toronto, Canada
Changing the Face of Leadership: DiverseCity onBoard

Promoting urban prosperity by diversifying leadership

Werdohl, Germany
Marketing Multiculturalism: Advertising Campaign for Integration

Designing an advertising campaign from the inside out: using community participation for greater impact

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Most Recent Good Ideas

Glasgow, Scotland
Connecting Nurses to Healthy Employment / Overseas Nurses Network (ONN)  

Fort Wayne, United States
Gateway to Little Burma / The City of Fort Wayne  

Oslo, Norway
Oslo Extra Large /   

London, United Kingdom
Banking on Affordable Credit / Fair Finance  

Barcelona, Spain
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Immigrants / Barcelona Activa  

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