When asylum seekers and refugees arrive in a new country, they are expected to ‘integrate’.

However, many of the systems that are meant to help them instead create environments which make it difficult to do so, and obscure access to services and opportunities.

Integration remains the responsibility of central governments, however, municipalities, third sector organisations and local communities are working together to increase the support, solidarity and services available to migrants.

The GLIMER project worked with governments and these organisations in Italy, Sweden, Cyprus and Scotland to investigate how these local projects complement central government policies and to find out which initiatives are successful.

This film explores GLIMER's work on the topics of accommodation, language provision, labour market integration and gender inequality across its case studies in these four countries.

[This film is available with English, Italian, Swedish and Greek subtitle options.]

Learn more: https://www.glimer.eu/media/glimer-film/

The GLIMER project was supported in JPI Urban Europe's call ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures Call (ENSUF) and has recieved funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 693443.