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(xi) Enacting legislation that allows migrant workers, including women, to
organize and join trade unions;
(xii) Ensuring that migrants have access to justice and redress for human
rights violations and abuses;
(c)
Facilitate the inclusion of migrant voices in policy and planning processes,
in particular when those processes affect them;
(d)
Prevent and respond to violence against migrants, in particular those
travelling irregularly or facing vulnerabilities;
(e)
Conduct needs assessments of newly arrived migrants, offering trauma
support, rehabilitation and adapted integration strategies for people facing
vulnerabilities;
(f)
Ensure that all migrants can access safe and regular migration pathways,
including by assessing immigration selection criteria, creating new regular pathways of
migration and removing legal barriers that leave asylum-seekers and refugees in legal
limbo, as well as through regularization programmes;
(g)
Use immigration detention as a last resort, for a limited duration and only
for administrative purposes;
(h)
Develop and implement comprehensive integration policies to assist
migrants upon arrival and during settlement, including by:
(i)
Ensuring access to essential services, including vulnerability and needs
assessments, health and psychosocial support, housing assistance, education on
financial services and access to education;
(ii)
Promoting social integration, including by facilitating family reunification
and supporting cultural events and festivals;
(iii) Facilitating labour market access, including by recognizing migrants’
educational credentials and providing support to migrants on employment
opportunities and skills enhancement;
(iv) Facilitating regular status through streamlined permit acquisition and
renewal and naturalization processes;
(v)
Providing access to information in the native languages of migrants to
support integration;
(vi) Ensuring a whole-of-society approach to integration, including
collaboration with municipal authorities, all government departments, civil
society, businesses, migrant associations and other relevant actors;
(vii) Providing tailored integration strategies and programmes addressing
specific needs within migrant communities, in particular for groups facing
vulnerabilities.
121. To avoid negative narratives about migration and promote positive narratives
that reflect their well-documented contributions, the Special Rapporteur recommends
that:
(a)
All stakeholders analyse the narratives that they use to speak about
migrants and promote balanced and evidence-based narratives domestically;
(b)
All stakeholders refrain from using, supporting or amplifying
disinformation or hate speech for any purpose;
(c)
Governments cease to position migration as a security threat and instead
focus on the well-documented contributions of migrants and the multitude of benefits
and societal and economic enrichment that migration affords;
(d)
Governments, foundations and other donors make funds and resources
available for campaigns that communicate migrants’ contributions and their inspiring
stories;
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