Impact Migrants
Professional skills, mentoring, freelance and job opportunities for migrants to join the business sector and add value to society
Impact Migrants is a social enterprise that builds tech and innovation skills among migrants and connects them with job and freelance opportunities to add value to the society they join and make it easier for businesses to hire them. We enable self-reliance, professional integration and value creation through 4 targeted and coordinated interventions and components:
1. Our Learning platform and Co
28/04/2021
After the Massacre: Survivors of Myanmar killings tell their story
reuters.com In February, Reuters exposed the murder of 10 Rohingya men. Now, their grieving families recount a harrowing escape from Myanmar.
Yogurt Billionaire’s Solution to World Refugee Crisis: Hire Them
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-28/yogurt-billionaire-s-solution-to-world-refugee-crisis-hire-them?fbclid=IwAR2gNVRGZsVOdo5NPi43HIFkljtCmHjoqSdgadttzyJ7hkoVtPHHPPr3TMQ
Want to hire refugees? Let us know
bloomberg.com Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant who used a small business loan to build a best-selling yogurt brand in the U.S., has a plan to solve the world’s growing refugee crisis: Give them jobs.
Criminal Immigrants in Texas: Illegal Immigrant Conviction and Arrest Rates for Homicide, S*x Crimes, Larceny, and Other Crimes
The Cato Institute compares conviction and arrest rates for violent crimes for immigrants and locals. It turns out, immigrants are less likely to commit a crime than locals.
cato.org This Immigration Research and Policy Brief was updated in August 2018 after the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed that their first release of convictions data was incorrect because of a coding error. As a result, Nowrasteh updated this brief’s findings to reflect the accurate data ...
Analysis | Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime
Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants, legal or illegal, commit more crime than natives...
washingtonpost.com The numbers don't lie.
Homeless migrant children explore their emotions through motion and music with dance therapist Abigail La Que Vuela at our Young Creators Academy
Children explore their emotions through motion and music with dance therapist Abigail La Que Vuela @ Bois de Boulogne
UC prof talks walls, wars and migrants’ will
University of Cincinnati professor Leila Rodriguez discusses the global refugee crisis at the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference
Powerful new map depicts environmental degradation across Earth
Map on Environmental Degradation and use of land allows us to appreciate their impact on migration trends, conflict and people displacement.
sciencedaily.com Geographers have created a new world map showing dramatic changes in land use over the last quarter century. Researchers turned high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency into one of the most detailed looks so far at how people are reshaping the planet.
UK admits only 20 unaccompanied child refugees in two years
UK admits only 20 unaccompanied child refugees in two years
theguardian.com New figures reveal paltry number of minors granted entry under scheme that was meant to resettle 3,000
Impact Migrant Provides Custom Training for Migrants
https://www.prlog.org/12729638-impact-migrant-provides-custom-training-for-migrants.html Impact Migrant launches new platforms for Migrants!
prlog.org Impact Migrant Provides Custom Training for Migrants. Making it easy for businesses to hire migrants with on demand training. - PR12729638
OECD iLibrary | How Immigrants Contribute to the Dominican Republic's Economy
How immigrants contribute to the Dominican Republic's Economy. A thorough research and detailed analysis by OECD
oecd-ilibrary.org The new OECD cross-searchable online library containing over 5000 e-books, 5000 MS Excel™ tables, 400 statistical datasets and 2500 working papers.
Carlos Miranda Levy on LinkedIn: "#Edeka supermarket clears its shelves of foreign products to teach consumers a lesson on diversity and our…
supermarket clears its shelves of foreign products to teach consumers a lesson on diversity and our interconnectedness. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6440173810887991296
Paris mobilisée pour les réfugiés
Paris mobilisée pour les réfugiés
paris.fr La situation des réfugiés à la rue reste très difficile à la porte de la Chapelle : la Ville a confié, dès le 1er août, à l’association Aurore la fourniture de petits déjeuners, qui complète le renforcement des distributions alimentaires, avec des actions pour un accès à l'eau potabl...
Swedish student's dramatic plane protest stops man's deportation 'to hell'
What's more important: your time or a person's life?
theguardian.com Elin Ersson refused to take her seat on flight at Gothenburg airport until man being sent to Afghanistan was removed
Influx of refugees from Yemen divides South Korean resort island
Influx of refugees from Yemen divides South Korean resort island
theguardian.com Arrival of refugees has sparked debate about country’s role in accepting asylum seekers
Creative Storytelling and Videogame Coding Summer Camp for kids in Paris -- Last Spots Available. Spanish, English, Portuguese and French tutoring. http://youngcreators.academy/summer
Young Creators Academy
Creative Storytelling and Videogame Coding Summer Camp in 2018 -- Save your spot today. Kids will learn in Spanish, English, Portuguese or French. More info at http://youngcreators.academy/summer-camp/2018
30 Years of Data Shows Asylum Seekers Are Not an Economic Burden
Refugees are not Economic Burden if you know how to leverage on their skills
motherboard.vice.com A new study shows that giving migrants pathways to citizenship in European countries actually results in positive economic impacts, while asylum seekers don’t have a negative impact.
Xhaka and Shaqiri goal celebrations bring Balkan politics to World Cup
Albanian migrants secure a win for Switzerland and celebrate their roots against Serbia which refuses to acknowledge their country of origin Kosovo
theguardian.com Switzerland pair, who have Albanian heritage, inflame tensions with Serbia by making nationalist symbols
Record 68.5 million people fleeing war or persecution worldwide
Record 68.5 million people displaced by war or persecution, 1 in every 110 around the world
theguardian.com As data shows one in every 110 people is displaced, UN special envoy Angelina Jolie warns of ‘terrible human consequences’ of Syria’s aid shortfall
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
Wow, this is great news
This young Syrian swimmer who competed in the Olympic Games is challenging the ways refugees are perceived.
🙌 UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Yusra Mardini
VICE News
:( many skilled labor just want a temporary non-immigrant visa to work. They have skills to contribute. But they can't and are not allowed in the country unless they want to be treated like all other refugees.
“No one wants me and I’m not that bad guy. It hurts me.”
What it's like to be stuck at an airport for more than a month as a Syrian refugee.
(via HBO)
Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Economic and Social Impact of a Global Phenomenon by Daphne Halkias, Paul Thurman, Sylva Caracatsanis, Nicholas Harkiolakis - Books on Google Play
Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Economic and Social Impact of a Global Phenomenon - interesting read, available as ebook
play.google.com Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Economic and Social Impact of a Global Phenomenon - Ebook written by Daphne Halkias, Paul Thurman, Sylva Caracatsanis, Nicholas Harkiolakis. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookm...
Impact Migrants promo video in Spanish for Startup Olé
Our promo video en español for our stand at Startup Olé 2018 in Salamanca!
With Mercedes and Andrew
Andrew tap dancing with the kids at the shelter.
Andrew Nemr tap dancing with the homeless migrant kids of Young Creators Academy at La Promesse de l'Aube Emergency Housing Center ran by Association Aurore
Working with the kids
Come join us in an inclusive sports Hackathon!
World Bank
World Bank on refugee crisis
We're excited to welcome Raouf Mazaou, UNHCR Representative, Kenya and Chisako Fukuda, Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Group. They will be discussing the Refugee Crisis in Kenya during this LIVE interview. Follow the exciting panel sessions during this week’s Fragility Forum on our World Bank Live page http://live.worldbank.org/fragility-forum-2018
Home | Impact Migrants
Our new website is up, visit us and discover our multiple initiatives for impact and how you can join us today! www.impactmigrants.com
impactmigrants.com A profitable social startup building skills among migrants, connecting them with freelance opportunities and facilitating their employment by businesses to enable them to pull their own weight and add value to society.
Inscriptions are now open for Kabubu's Programme d'inclusion par le sport -Football Integration Program - locals and migrants brought closer by footbal... Great Work!
Never underestimate the role of parents for a child. When given the option to write anything in her own language, Maimouna, 11, wrote "Papa mi f'ai" (Dad I love you) in Bambara. A 5 year old was so moved by her drawing that she asked if she could color the heart red. And then all of us together made a rap song with their words and names in French, Arabic, Bambara and English. You can listen to it here: http://www.smule.com/p/1483663283_1926941092
This was last Saturday during our Young Creators Academy workshop at Aurore Association's La Promesse de l'Aube shelter for homeless and migrant families. http://www.youngcreators.academy
Original Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd68McsloBd/
Environmental Innovation Lab
Devastating climate change could lead to 1m migrants a year entering EU by 2100
How Facebook Helps to Reveal the Fate of Missing Syrian Refugees
How Facebook Helps to Reveal the Fate of Missing Syrian Refugees
wired.com As people flee conflict zones, thousands disappear—into new lives or into the sea.
impact-migrants-presentation.pdf
Intro to Impact Migrants presentation shown at the Techfugees Summit last month http://go.impactmigrants.com/presentation
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