Good Ideas in Integration

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Discover practices which enable or enhance the economic contribution of migrants to the city. This includes employment, labourforce integration, recognition of qualifications and skills assessment, vocational and skills training, mentoring, workplace language and intercultural training, and workforce diversity initiatives.

Each profile includes contact information, further reading, and city-level information to help you use and adapt these practices locally, wherever you live and work.

Auckland, New Zealand
From Alpha to Omega: Innovating in the Workplace

Importing a successful labour force integration model saves time and money

Bologna, Italy
Social Justice Is Better Business: Integrating the Chinese Business Community Into the Mainstream

Helping ethnic businesses conform to legal and regulatory practice results in better social and economic integration

Copenhagen, Denmark
Women at Work: the KVINFO Mentor Network

Mentoring that takes the "other" out of the picture

London, United Kingdom
Bringing People to Jobs: Runways to Work Programme

Investing a community with long term skills to secure competitive and economic advantage.

London, United Kingdom
Banking on Success: Diversity at Lloyds TSB

Local recruitment is rewarded by customer satisfaction and increased profits

Melbourne, Australia
Delicious! Celebrating Culture through Food

Using food to celebrate cultural diversity in Australian workplaces

Montreal, Canada
The World On Our Doorstep: Short Term Mentoring Opens Doors To Employment

The business case for mentoring helps both employers and skilled immigrants meet their bottom line

New York City, USA
Interviewing the Up and Coming at Upwardly Global

Diversity training is a two-way street

Toronto, Canada
Building Professional and Occupational Networks: The Mentoring Partnership

Connecting skilled immigrants with their employed counterparts for greater occupational and social capital

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Lisbon, Portugal
One Stop Shop: Mainstreaming Integration / ACIDI (Alto Comissariado para a Imigração e Dialogo Intercultural)  

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Zurich, Switzerland
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