Twenty five per cent of Aboriginal Community Health Contributions had been transferred to communities, and 65 percent of First Nations were involved in the transfer process.

Shimin Gaikou Centre (1999 2002)

Appeal procedures should be widely publicized in a campaign targeting both immigrants and the host society.

One element is to treat emigrant communities justly and their religions and cultures must be respected.

Chinese Immigrants Services (1998 2001)

This discrimination affects, in different ways, three communities or groups national minorities (Ainus, Burakumin and the people of Okinawa), the Korean and Chinese communities, and immigrants from Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

The programme was operational in 16 states in 2003 in camps, hostels, informal settlements, and communities originating in the villages whose inhabitants migrate to other regions.

The number of legal migrants and refugees is decided each year by the Government after extensive consultations with the community.

Visit of migrant workers apos residence areas

Indeed, the migration asylum nexus reflected that it was sometimes difficult to distinguish between forced and voluntary migration.

(l) To continue to take specific measures to increase the capacity of communities, including immigrant and refugee communities, in which female genital mutilation is practised, to engage in activities aimed at preventing and eliminating such practices

Mr. Daniel Grandordy, Interregional Office for Immigration Control and Action to Combat the Employment of Illegal Immigrants (DIRCILEC)

Of these, 69 women were in immigration detention facilities and 22 were in community based arrangements.

It was stressed that the only way to prevent the phenomenon was by empowering potential migrants in their home countries and by promoting economic and community development in areas of high migration in order to curb migration and stabilize the population.

We should increase the assistance for immigrants in the reservoir area,

Coordination immigrés du Sud du monde C.I.S.M.

Previous experience relating to displaced indigenous populations suggests that, if handled badly, the consequences can be disastrous both for the displaced population and the host community.

The Committee is particularly concerned about the extensive powers exercised by immigration officers in respect of illegal immigrants in border areas.

In Karachi, up to 2.5 million illegal immigrants live in slum conditions.

More than half these communities are still awaiting transfer.

Devolution is The transfer of rights and assets from the centre to local governments or communities.

The USAID has been encouraging groups of migrants to pool their funds to institute community based projects in their homelands.

Transnational ethnic networks and diasporas promoted the transfer of knowledge and technology across borders, the strengthening of ties between migrants and their communities of origin, and greater participation of migrants in the development of those communities.

Utilizing the existence of migrants in various societies in bridging the gap of understanding between cultures

Observation of migrant workers apos social life in the centre of Kuwait City

Relations between indigenous Ivorian ethnic groups and immigrant communities in many areas remain tense, notably in Duékoué and Guiglo and in and around the zone of confidence.

The Immigration Policy Institute (Presidential Decree 188 1.8.2002) was established for the research on and implementation of immigration policy, including issues concerning social and cultural integration of immigrants.

Issues of building inclusiveness in societies with large migrant populations in an otherwise homogeneous community, such as Sweden, were also discussed.

These policies should neither enforce a dispersal of immigrant families nor ignore the negative consequences of the formation of immigrant ghettos.

3. Each State Party shall promote or strengthen, as appropriate, development programmes and cooperation at the national, regional and international levels, taking into account the socio economic realities of migration and paying special attention to economically and socially depressed areas, in order to combat the root socio economic causes of the smuggling of migrants, such as poverty and underdevelopment.

Treatment of foreign nationals, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants in waiting areas

SAARC Refugee and Eminent Person Groups Conference, Sri Lanka.

Empowering communities and civil society

Recognizing also the positive and diverse contributions that migrants make to host and origin societies, and the efforts that some host countries undertake to integrate migrants and their families,

The countries of the region made a clear distinction between legal and illegal immigrants, and accorded them different treatment, but such differences were not based on ethnicity or religion.

Welcome with satisfaction the improvement and positive developments of regional cooperation in the field of migration, asylum and refugees and, in this regard, the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding of the MARRI Regional Forum, and the establishment of the Regional MARRI Center in Skopje, as well as the conclusions of the MARRI Ministerial Conference held in Tirana (5 April 2005).

You'll take those settlers as far as Oak Creek the limit of our patrol area.

The Committee is seriously concerned that migrant workers, who account for a significant proportion of the working population of MSAR, are excluded from the social welfare system.

At the same time, migrants should demonstrate willingness to integrate into their host societies.

to promote social, cultural and economic advancement of Remote Area Dweller communities and,

32. Immigration to France has been suspended since 1974 and each succeeding Government has opted for a policy composed of two main parts control of migratory flows and limitation of so called clandestine immigration, on the one hand, and integration of legal immigrants, on the other.

The project will publish stories from migrants, refugees, indigenous Australians and the general community about living together with people from different backgrounds.

In 1977, an official French Government report entitled Immigration et développement économique et social emphasized the beneficial effects of immigration.

Development of Indigenous Peoples and Communities

24. In devising policies to protect the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of immigrants, States would be well advised to consult with representatives of immigrant associations.