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Additional phases of regularization of migrants’ residence in the country have also
been initiated. 71
66. In Vienna, “Mum learns German” is a programme providing German language
courses for migrant mothers at their children’s schools. In London, the “Parents’
integration through partnership” programme is designed to support the language
learning and integration of mothers of schoolchildren from States outside the
European Union. 72
67. The European Social Fund has financed many projects aimed at integrating
migrant women into the labour market, including:. the “Strong at work – mothers with
a migration background are entering the labour market ” project in Germany, which
provides career orientation and individual support to mothers with a migrant
background; 73 the “Mirjam” project in Sweden, which provides job-related guidance
for newly arrived refugee women; the “Building Better Futures” project in Ireland,
which supports migrant women who face extra barriers to entrepreneurship; and the
“Razkirte roke 3” project in Slovenia, which brings migrant women together to help
them set up a business while improving their language skills. 74
68. Sweden offers short supplementary courses as part of its programme so that
newly arrived migrants with tertiary education can be swiftly mat ched with available
jobs in the labour market. Employers can also benefit from financial support when
recruiting a person who is new in Sweden. Experience with this programme
demonstrates its validity as well as the need to focus more on reaching migrants with
lower levels of education and skills. 75
69. In addition, in 2018, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada launched
the Visible Minority Newcomer Women pilot to improve the employment and career
advancement of visible minority newcomer women in Ca nada by addressing the
barriers they may face, including gender- and race-based discrimination, precarious
or low income employment, lack of affordable childcare and weak social support. As
part of the pilot, the Government will provide funding of up to $7 million for new,
innovative programmes and services to support women from visible minorities in
gaining access to the labour market and to build capacity of smaller organizations that
serve or are led by women from visible minorities. 76
70. In an innovative approach to supporting the integration of self-employed
migrants, Argentina created two programmes for the regularization for migrants from
Senegal and the Dominican Republic. Through the programme, between 2004 and
2013, temporary residencies were obtained for 60 per cent of applicants from the
Dominican Republic. Since Dominican migration to Argentina is feminized (75 per cent
of Dominican migrants are women), the programme is mainly of benefit to women
who were able to start their own small businesses (from a total of 2,000 Dominicans
that achieved regularisation, 1,460 were women). In this way, Dominican women
were able to access social protection and to become more autonomous. 77
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See submission of the National Human Rights Council of Morocco.
European Commission, “Integration of migrant women: A key challenge with limited policy
resources”, 12 November 2018 (https://ec.europa.eu/migrant-integration/feature/integration-ofmigrant-women).
For more information about the programme see: https://www.starkimberuf.de.
See European Commission, “Integration of migrant women”.
Council of Europe, “Human rights aspects of immigrant and refugee integration policies ”, Issue
Paper (https://rm.coe.int/168093de2c), pp. 36–37.
Government of Canada, news release, “New pilot to address multiple barriers to success for
women in Canada’s job market”, 5 December 2018 (https://www.canada.ca/en/immigrationrefugees-citizenship/news/2018/12/supporting-visible-minority-newcomer-women.html).
International Organization for Migration-Comisión Argentina de Refugiados, La migración dominicana
en Argentina. Trayectorias en el nuevo siglo (2000–2015), Buenos Aires, December 2015.
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