Empowerment and Rights of Migrants

Members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), have an Agreement on Social Security (CASS) that protects pension rights for workers moving between CARICOM member states.

The Sending Money Home web site is a price comparison service for sending remittances from Norway.  

The Directorate General of Diaspora established under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coordinates issues related to Rwandans living abroad, providing passports and other services to its diaspora.

Georgia’s main migration document prioritizes the promotion of legal migration and strengthening migrants’ rights, and calls for practical approaches to issues like diaspora contributions to state development, the benefits of international migration, and harnessing migration’s positive social and economic impacts.

The National Union of Eritrean Women, an association with branches in numerous countries, addresses matters related to gender and women’s empowerment and involvess second-generation migrants

Sweden has entered into social security agreements with 11 countries that mainly cover retirement, disability and survivors pensions and contain coordination and aggregation rules in addition to regulating the portability of benefits. 

The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis has a Returning Nationals Secretariat, which offers assistance and services to returnees such as help finding jobs, locating housing and getting access to other social services. They also offer guidance and essential information, assistance navigating the relocation bureaucracy and counselling where necessary. 

Nationals who have lived abroad for at least ten years qualify for certain tax exemptions upon returning.

The Swedish Work Environment Authority has a website in multiple languages designed to inform migrant workers in the areas of catering and contruction of their rights and entitlements in Sweden in order to minimize their risk of exploitation.

The International Citizen Service is a “one-stop-shop” that offers services to migrant workers, job-seekers and their families. It offers help with paperwork, personal career guidance, useful information about living and working conditions in Denmark, and authorization and approval of professional qualifications for regulated professions. 

Local authorities provide various integration services for immigrants, including language training (SFI - Swedish for immigrants) and provide legal aid. Some local authorities also run medborgarkontor (citizen information centers) in areas with high numbers of migrants, which provide individual assistance to migrants on how to navigate local bureaucracies, apply for benefits and find housing.