Integration agency

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Integration agencies (IA) are institutions that are funded as part of the integration agencies funding program of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . They are active in the area of ​​the integration of immigrants and people with an immigrant background and support peaceful coexistence in the district or in the region.

Goals and fields of action

The framework concept for the integration agencies provides for four fields of action:

Specialists are deployed in these four areas of activity: The activities of the integration agencies are primarily aimed at “full-time workers who are active in social services of general interest ”.

Integration agencies work in cooperation with the free, public sponsors and migrant self-organizations and other social institutions . They introduce people with a history of immigration to the offers of the social infrastructure (educational institutions, health system, administration, services, culture). Furthermore, it is about the activation, motivation and qualification of volunteers and multipliers .

With the expansion in 2016/2017 through the KOMM-AN NRW funding program, part III of which is aimed at strengthening the integration agencies, the activities should "increasingly focus on preventing and combating all forms of discrimination , Islamophobia and anti-Semitism and the local people, Take a look at locals and refugees alike ”. Measures are funded in the following areas and fields of action:

  • Peaceful coexistence in the districts,
  • Preventing and combating forms of anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia and discrimination in connection with the refugee issue
  • Conflict mediation , especially district mediation,
  • Activities for integration and empowerment in the social space.

Integration agencies can offer group offers and project-related activities, but in contrast to the earlier social counseling for foreigners or migration counseling for adult immigrants , integration agencies do not have a “classic” counseling offer, as this is no longer funded by the state. Rather, the integration agencies should work together with migrant self-organizations, promote the intercultural opening of other actors, facilities, services and institutions and moderate the integration work.

History of origin

The integration agencies funding program has existed in North Rhine-Westphalia since January 1, 2007. It was created in the course of efforts since 2005, instead of social counseling and individual work, to focus more on promoting specific activities in the social area. It emerged from the reform of migration and integration policy when the Immigration Act came into force on January 1, 2005.

The integration agencies emerged from the earlier migration specialist services.

Support and funding

The integration agencies are sponsored by the leading associations of independent welfare organizations . They are funded by the Ministry for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Part III of the “KOMM-AN NRW” program to promote the integration of refugees in the municipalities and to support civic engagement in refugee aid for the years 2016/2017 aims to strengthen the integration agencies.

The integration agencies funding program is a unique model from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ( see also: Participation and Integration Act ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Integration agencies create diversity. (No longer available online.) Integration Agencies North Rhine-Westphalia, 2016, archived from the original on August 21, 2016 ; Retrieved October 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / integrationsagentur-nrw.de
  2. ↑ a b KOMM-AN NRW, program to promote the integration of refugees in the municipalities: funding concept. Ministry of Labor, Integration and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 2016, accessed on October 29, 2016 . In it: Part III of the program : Strengthening the integration agencies , pp. 21–23.
  3. ↑ Integration agency . Intercultural Migrant Center IMAZ eV, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b KOMM-AN NRW. Competence Center for Integration, North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c Program part III. Competence Center for Integration, North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Migration service / integration agency. (No longer available online.) Migrantinnentreff Gülistan, archived from the original on May 11, 2016 ; Retrieved October 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.migrantinnentreff-guelistan.de
  7. ↑ Integration agency . Press article: Widunetz, the network for integration, is born. German Red Cross, accessed October 29, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Integration agencies create diversity. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Integration Agencies North Rhine-Westphalia, 2011, archived from the original on October 29, 2016 ; Retrieved October 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kfi.nrw.de
  9. ↑ Integration Agencies (IA). Competence Center for Integration, Arnsberg District Government, accessed on October 29, 2016 .