City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe

Milan has been an active player within the EUROCITIES network since its establishment in 1986. Specifically, our Rights, Inclusion and Projects Area in the Social Policies Department is committed to further enhancing its contribution to the Migration and Integration Working Group and joining the Homelessness and Roma Inclusion Working Groups in 2020. We are also determined to improve our social inclusion strategies, with particular attention to the most vulnerable groups, through cooperation with other cities and stakeholders in the context of common initiatives and projects. To this end, we will explore innovative solutions to address the issues connected with irregular migration, through the “C-MISE” initiative and the “REACH OUT” project, as well as SGBV in migrant communities through the “Equal(c)ity” project and "Admin4all - Phase 2" supporting social inclusion of vulnerable migrants in Europe. Milan also promotes legal migration paths through co-development cooperation projects. A very successful example was “MeNTOR – Mediterranean Network for Training Orientation to Regular

migration” (2017-2018), which aimed to improve temporary and circular migration schemes for young people between Italy, Morocco and Tunisia. MeNTOR’s second edition (“MeNTOR 2”) aims to strengthen and expand such transnational mobility mechanism.