Protection & Integration

FR Success

The Refugee Information Service (RIS) has developed expertise in giving information, advice referral and advocacy service in the areas of Protection and Integration over the years. In the area of Protection, the RIS assist clients through its clinic-based work, email and telephone services with the asylum process, direct provision, rights and entitlements, appeals, subsidiary protection, and humanitarian leave to remain.

 

The RIS also assists Refugees, people with leave to remain and people with subsidiary protection with integration particularly on issues of family reunification, access to education, employment, anti-racism and in facilitating intercultural activities and creating a shared forum between members of new and existing communities.

 

It is the opinion of RIS that these issues form the cornerstone of a person's ability to integrate into their new community. An example of the work that RIS does in this area is the regional forum's that are held between employers and job seekers from the migrant community. This platform allows for a discussion of the issues regarding integration into the work place. Efforts for integration cannot be something taken on exclusively by migrants, it needs to be a nationwide effort, reaching out to all facets of society.

 

RIS work in the areas of Policy and Research, Training and Communications complements the various services to our client groups.