Welcoming and integration management of migrant people: Practice 1: Keeping in mind that every migrant is unique the structure provides a variety of services, offering therefore a personalised welcoming to each migrant.

Practice 2: A personalised approach to the different needs of the migrants is valued by means of the creation of groups and the freedom of migrant women to choose their topics of discussion. Support and solidarity are provided as well. Such activities and commitments need to take place regularly for a more sustainable logic of continuity as part of the objective of integrating migrant women.

Firstly, migrant women must be identified according to their needs, then the programme needs to be adapted in consequence as well as the creation of a partnership with the different stakeholders.

Social and professional inclusion through urban agriculture activities: Practice 1: The method used is the flexibility to the women’s need by proposing a range of activities to the women and letting them pick the one that appeals to them the most.

Practice 2: Offering a personalised help through the making available of an empty space to everybody.

Practice 3: In 1998, with the disembarkation of 200 refugees from Kurdistan to Riace Marina, the Città Futura association (dedicated to the Sicilian priest Don Giuseppe Puglisi, killed by the mafia) decided to help 19 migrants just landed giving them access to the old houses abandoned by the owners, far away from the country. From there began the story of Riace, the country of integration.

Social inclusion: Practice 1: Hosting different projects in the same place with different specialists.

Professional inclusion: Practice 1: Giving freedom to migrant women to teach their peers so that they become experts of their integration.

URBAGRI4WOMEN, throughout its many activities, discussions and visits, empowers migrant women and has a positive impact on the urban landscape and the environment. Since 2015, the European Unions has been going through an unforeseen migration crisis which has challenged its unity, as the EU’s common migration policy is disputed and its member states each have different implementation systems and ways of dealing with migration management (e.g. the judiciary, daily life management…).

Far from nationwide and Europe-wide political considerations, which seem to be at a standstill, local activities cope daily with the core problems of the populations in need on a human scale. Therefore, the success of the project lies in the hands of committed local civil society organizations and their close cooperation and cross-fertilization.

The seminar and study visit helped the partner civil society organizations share their experience and successes. The good practices shared in this catalogue constitute a model to be followed by all actors of migration management, such as civil society organizations, and policy makers at local, national and European levels. Because, ultimately, the EU tends towards greater union in all areas, including migration management. This will be partly enabled by the exchanges of best practices that led to this catalogue.

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