New resources to support refugee integration

There’s a new set of FREE, practical and creative resources on the Migration Yorkshire website for people who work with and support refugees to settle and integrate with the local community. They include the following topics:

1. Hosting: ‘Everyday hosting’ – early findings from research with hosts on the Homes for Ukraine scheme
2. Employment: ‘The time is now: how to bridge the gap between refugees and employers’ – employer engagement toolkit, and resources on professional bodies and supporting highly-skilled refugees into employment (led by Leeds Beckett University)
3. Housing: ‘Homeward bound – the housing transitions of refugees’ including an interactive documentary, comic, briefing, research digest and evidence synthesis (led by the University of Huddersfield)
4. Participation: Refugee participation toolkit, and ‘Collaborating in the shade of a tree’: migration peer research toolkit
5. Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: a review and update of our UASC hub
6. Volunteering: toolkit on Doing volunteering ‘well’
7. Social integration: ‘Building the foundations for social connections in Yorkshire and Humber’ – a toolkit (led by the Institute for Public Policy Research)
8. Statistics: a handbook on local integration data (led by University of Oxford)
9. ESOL: a toolkit for providers on ESOL needs analysis and placement (led by Leeds Beckett University).

If you like the look of them, please share this email! You can support us by tagging or retweeting us on social media. We’re always keen to hear feedback (contact research@migrationyorkshire.org.uk).

These resources were developed for the Refugee Integration Yorkshire and Humber project using expertise and information from across the Yorkshire and Humber region. You can also find more resources from the project on this page – including our regional refugee integration strategy ‘Making Connections, Building Resilience’, information about our regional Refugee Integration Forum, our local migration data dashboards and more.

This project is co-funded by the European Union Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. Making management of migration flows more efficient across the European Union.