NICEM Visit - Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Intro
Started by Chinese support group and then Indian support group, Travelers are the largest minority group
20 employees
Independently funded projects that run until funding runs out
Projects
Interpreting - 200 languages, currently self sustaining, contract w/ police
Police and Lobbying team to ensure all people are consulted
Migrant worker support
Floating support - over NI
Racial Harassment - help and support people who have experienced integration
Immigration support - let people know what need to know here
Questions
Anti racism classes taken by community groups and government
Minority groups
Chinese, Indian, African - have been migrating here for generations
Africa, middle east - Seeking Asylum, only 200, most sent to Scotland due to lank of recourses, refugees can go anywhere
Polish, Portuguese, Slovakian - Migrant workers
Pilipino, Indian - Recruited Nurses
Communities encouraged not to go to police, but to report incidents to local community leaders.
Minorities then do not want to go to police either. Besides may not want to go b/c perceptions from home country.
NI is lacking human recourses. Polish immigrants recruited to keep economy from collapsing,
Great hospitality vs. racism - people like the nationality, but do not want them living next door, marring into family, working above or taking job
"Brutishness" tests online, required to become citizen
EU can work w/o papers, get benefits after a year
Non EU need permit, employer needs to justify why hiring this person over anyone in whole EU, and pay
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