Migration Legislation and Integration Overview
Explore the key aspects of migration legislation and social integration in Costa Rica, focusing on human rights, refugee rights, and the promotion of cultural diversity. Learn about the role of the Immigration Directorate in managing migration dynamics and fostering the integration of migrants into Costa Rican society. Discover how national development is influenced by immigration policies and the rights and duties of migrants and Costa Rican nationals living abroad.
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Integration from a Migration Perspective
GENERAL MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION LAW Social Integration of Migrants and Refugees
Migration Legislation The Immigration (DGME) is the institution in charge of implementing migration decentralized body of the Ministry of the Interior and Police. General Directorate of Migration and policy as a Act 8764 reflects a change in the management of the phenomenon of migration, based on the following four central themes:
Human Rights Act 8764 Migration Services Integration Migration Control (Security)
Migration Legislation Article refugees, respecting human life, diversity, culture, solidarity, gender equality and human rights. 3: Integration of migrants and Article 5: To foster the integration of migrants through the design of public policies and strategies.
Migration Legislation Article 6. Promotes, regulates, guides and organizes the immigration and out-migration dynamics, to ensure that they contribute to national development through the economic, social and cultural growth of the Costa Rican society. Rights and duties of migrants.
Migration Legislation Article 13: Paragraph 30: To integrate migrants into Costa Rican society, as well as Costa Rican nationals living abroad. Paragraph 34: To repatriate Costa Rican nationals living abroad based on humanitarian grounds. Furthermore, bodies of deceased Costa Rican nationals. to repatriate the
Migration Legislation Article 31. Foreign nationals shall enjoy the individual and social recognized for Costa Rican nationals in the Political Constitution, except for the limitations established in the Constitution. rights and guarantees The regulations relating to the fundamental rights of foreign nationals shall be interpreted in accordance with human rights conventions and current ratified international treaties and agreements.
Resources from the Social Migration Fund The resources from the Social Migration Fund are collected through the payment of $25 for migration services (Article 33, Migration and Immigration Act No. 8764) Paragraph 3, General The Social Migration Fund is intended to support the social integration of migrant populations into national migration, health, education, security and justice services, as well as the repatriation of Costa Rican nationals.
Beneficiaries of the Social Migration Fund Ministry of Public Security Education Sector Health Sector Social Adaptation Migration 40% DINADECO 5% 20% 25% 5% 5%
ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
Achievements Migram vil Programme: Visiting communities with high numbers of migrants and refugees and providing personalized migration services. Approximately 1.017 persons were served during the first half of 2015.
Achievements Assistance to foreign indigenous populations: Including Title V: Treatment of indigenous populations in the Immigration Regulations. The assisted are Ng be Bugl (Panamanian nationals) and Miskito (Nicaraguan and Honduran nationals). majority of indigenous populations
Achievements Use of the resources from the Social Fund: A project for the purchase of tents Migram vil Programme; Repatriating foreign nationals detained in prisons to their country of origin or residence; Building a health office in Pe as Blancas; Incorporating migrant and refugee populations into development partnerships.
Achievements Supporting initiatives oriented toward the integration of refugees: o Project Vivir la integraci n : Intends to encourage enterprises to develop corporate social responsibility programmes to support the integration of refugees in Costa Rica. The private sector can join this initiative through various actions: o 1. Considering refugees in their staff recruitment and hiring processes; o 2. Supporting training processes aimed at strengthening the employability profiles of refugees; o 3. Developing awareness-raising and communication processes; o 4. Including refugee entrepreneurs in their value chains, etc.
Achievements o Project Modelo de graduaci n : The objective of this model is to identify refugees and Costa Rican nationals in vulnerable situations and in conditions of dependency in order to help them become self-sufficient interventions. through a series of
INTEGRATION VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
A MODEL FOR INTEGRATION OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS Social Assistance (IMAS) Educational and Vocational Programmes Identification and Certification Risk Assessment and Management Meeting Health Needs Legal Accompaniment Protection and Security Meeting Material Needs Psychological Accompaniment Migration Protection Safe Migration Regularization Accommodation
Challenges To provide more services during the Migram vil activities. To execute the funds from the Social Migration Fund through projects aimed at ensuring the integration of migrant and refugee populations into migration, health and education services as well as development partnerships, public security and social adaptation services.
Carmen Muoz Quesada Vice-Minister of the Interior and Police cmquesada@mgp.go.cr THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
