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Plan for Reception and Acknowledgement of Migrants and Refugees in Quilicura District (PARMIRE)

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Quilicura - Chile

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Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
100,000 to 499,999 inhabitants (large intermediate)

3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development, among other means.

10-2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all.

16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

16.9 By 2030, provide legal identity for all, in particular, by means of birth registration.

16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.

F - International migration and protection of the human rights of all migrants

American Convention on Human Rights

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CRMW).

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).

Others

Summary

The Plan for Reception and Acknowledgement of Migrants and Refugees in Quilicura District (PARMIRE) is a local policy that addresses the needs of people with a migrant or refugee status living in the Santiago de Chile district. The Plan was prepared jointly with the migrant and refugee community in response to their daily difficulties: health, education, work and housing; and helps improve their reception and acknowledgement within the district.

Implementation Date:

Start: 06 / 1 / 2014

End: End: Currently in force

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Since 2000, the municipality of Santiago has been receiving a large number of people as migrants, seeking either asylum or refuge. Consequently, the District decided to set up the Office for Migrants and Refugees (OMMR) in 2010 and allocate resources so as to give proper attention to such population. One of the challenges consisted of understanding the problems faced by migrants and refugees and propose public policies that would be capable of meeting their needs accordingly. The main demands are related to health, employment and education, and their relationship with inter and multi-culturality situations.
The initiative aims to define the priority intervention lines and the specific local policies recommended to be implemented by the OMMR, along with a plan for reception and acknowledgement of migrants and refuge or asylum seekers who arrive or live in Quilicura. In the long term, the PARMIRE has two purposes: 1. To ensure true implementation of the rights currently recognized to migrants. 2. To show the existence of institutional, regulatory and social limits which require modification to fully acknowledge foreign citizens, both men and women, arriving in the district.
Municipal Office for Migrants and Refugees (OMMR). It aims to execute, accompany and supervise the application of the reception plan in the whole district.
Municipal Department of Education: in charge of the incorporation of the intercultural variable through the planning and implementation of reception actions. The Department has an intercultural unit which prepares integration activities for migrant children and supports the learning process by means of the inclusion of linguistic and cultural facilitators in all public schools of the district. Municipal Health Department: responsible for the application of the intercultural variable through culture-relevant health actions. In this way, external and local resources are allocated to the hiring of intercultural facilitators, while information materials are prepared and distributed in Creole and linguistic support is provided in customer service cubicles, among further related tasks and activities. Community Development Department: in charge of mainstreaming actions for plan applicability throughout the units under its responsibility.
Internal Regulations of Santiago de Chile Municipality. The regulations describe and list the functions of the Department of Human Rights and the Municipal Office for Migrants and Refugees; entities that are both accounted for in the international treaties on human rights.
International migrants, asylum applicants and refugees
Domestic migrants
Population of African descent
Public officers and public employees
Seminars/events
Social/citizen participation
Institutional strengthening
Building of partnerships, networks, associations and coalitions
Creation of entity/plan/programme
The Plan for Reception and Acknowledgement of Migrants and Refugees in Quilicura District (PARMIRE) was centered on two key concepts which mark two different stages along the migrant’s or refugee’s path: 1) Reception: time of arrival and need to generate instruments which enable access to their rights. 2) Acknowledgement: long-term inclusion, when they are acknowledged as having the same class as the native population. A research team was built, including officers and collaborators from the OMMR and the School of Social Work of ARCIS University (University of Art and Social Sciences). The team was in charge of reviewing qualitative information for the detection of the critical core ideas arising from this issue and the generation of remedial proposals. Work methodology: - Participatory workshops with the migrant and refugee population from several nationalities and under human mobility conditions, coordinated by specialized moderators. The workshops were organized based on instruments that are oriented to the identification of problems, causes and solutions, including the migrants’ and refugees’ own views on the three proposed themes: education, health and coexistence, and a theme defined by the players themselves. - Discussion group with the population segmented by gender and origin, interviews with the institutional players’ perspective (municipal officers, health service workers, school officers and school headmasters). - Ethnographic observations at three public health sites in the Quilicura district.
PARMIRE is an action plan that aims towards the definition of a local public policy. It is a pioneer in the migrant and refugee status issue, since it is the first public policy that has been formulated in Chile, not only at local level but at all State levels. The plan was prepared based on two supplementary perspectives. On the one hand, the rights’ approach as basis: foreign residents’ access to the local society, its resources, services and public space are not based on the contribution made by migrants to local culture, economy or society but on the human rights principle as the legal assumption for all citizens. In this sense, the receipt and acknowledgment policy is not subjected to the recognition of the migrants’ contribution to society but to permanent and well established principles over a humanistic view on politics. On the other hand, the perspective of the other players involved: local policies are sustainable and effective only if they are supported by the participation of the players involved. The definition of problem areas and development of their possible solutions were carried out with the presence and active participation of local participants, mainly of those people with a migrant and asylum status, and local Government institutional agents. This dynamic allowed submitting a proposal which was formulated from main participants´ own experiences and expectations, as well as from the limitations and deficiencies they managed to identify themselves.
The alliance made with the International Organization for Migrations (IOM) gave origin to the inter-municipal tables; a place for sharing experiences over the migration topic with officers from different municipalities. In 2013, in support of the work done by OMMR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Refugees (UNHCR) financed a research project headed by the Center of Society and Public Policy Research of University of Los Lagos. Additionally, the study was also supported by ARCIS University and Fundación San Carlos de Maipo.
The municipal public policy was centered on the migrants and refugees during the whole PARMIRE preparation process, both regarding action diagnosis and design, and their participation has been essential. The interactive workshops and discussion groups over this issue were attended by 67 participants. In particular, women’s participation in all the stages of their migration path was covered, in order to address specific problems so that the resulting policy includes equity and gender equality.
For follow up and continuity purposes of the actions planned in PARMIRE, the Municipal Office for Migrants and Refugees (OMMR) has built alliances with several municipal departments, especially with the Education and Health departments.
Local goverment
International organization
The identification of critical core ideas from the research submitted by the Center of Society and Public Policy Research of University of Los Lagos, ARCIS University and Fundación San Carlos de Maipo, determined five strategic themes to make reference to the intervention proposals aimed at either migration first stage or consolidation stage: Information and rights, Government and participation, anti-discriminatory education, coexistence and mediation and transnational dimension acknowledgement. For the purpose of PARMIRE preparation, 6 workshops were held with the participation of 67 people from different nationalities and under different migratory conditions. Additionally, 3 discussion groups were held with 30 participants and 17 interviews. The PARMIRE contributed to the strengthening and visibility of the Municipal Office for Migrants and Refugees (OMMR), both within the municipal context and abroad, as well as to the implementation of a permanent institutionality aimed at local integration and assistance of the migrant and asylum-seeking population. A factor that contributed to the preparation of the plan was the network built by the OMMR, which enabled the collection of first-hand information and the finding of participants from the target population to cooperate with the generation of really useful reception and acknowledgement actions.
As a result of its commitment with the migrant and/or refugee population, the city of Quilicura was granted two significant awards: “Solidary City” from the United Nations (UN) through ACNUR, and “Migrant Seal” granted by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chile.
Plan for Reception and Acknowledgement of Migrants and Refugees

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3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development, among other means.

10-2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all.

16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

16.9 By 2030, provide legal identity for all, in particular, by means of birth registration.

16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.
F - International migration and protection of the human rights of all migrants
American Convention on Human Rights
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CRMW).
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).
Others

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Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
100,000 to 499,999 inhabitants (large intermediate)

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