São Paulo – The House of Representatives will hold next Thursday (22nd) in Brasília the seminar “New Flows of Migrant Workers to Brazil – Challenges for Public Policies” to discuss the issues that the country is facing with the arrival of immigrant workers, as well as to supply information for the project “Immigration Law”. The experience of countries that already received a lot of immigrants will be presented during the event.
The seminar is organized by the Foreign Relations and National Defense Commission and by the Labor, Management and Public Service Commission. The president of the Foreign Relations Commission, congressperson Jô Moraes (affiliated with political party PC do B – MG) said to ANBA this Tuesday (20th) that the event will discuss new ways to promote the “economic integration” of immigrants in Brazil.
“The debate and search for solutions to meet the increasing number of migrants is an initiative of the Minister of Labor and Social Security and we have been attending several debates. The immigrant issues demand a greater assistance [by the authorities] and clear policies to promote the economic integration of these people, how they are going to make a living upon arriving in Brazil”, said the congressperson.
Experts from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and from University of Massachusetts, United States, will attend the seminar. They will present the experience of their countries, which received a large immigration flow in the last few years. Also set to attend the seminar is the national secretary of Justice, Beto Vasconcelos, and the minister of Labor and Social Security, Miguel Rossetto.
During the seminar, a report from the International Migration Observatory (OBMigra) will be released with the immigrants’ main features and the migrant workers’ profile within Brazil’s labor market. According to the congressperson, the increase in the number of immigrants that arrive in the country as refugees is one of the reasons for the seminar to be held.
The event also plans to supply information for the draft bill that will result in the “Immigration Law”, which will replace the Foreigner Statute, created in the 1980s.
This year, Syrians were the immigrants that received the highest number of visas to live in Brazil as refugees. Up to October, 2,097 applications were approved. More than 8,000 Syrian refugees are living in Brazil. People from Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq also arrive in Brazil with the status of refugees. Haitians that arrive in Brazil receive the humanitarian visa. The event is open to the general public.
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Seminar New Flows of Migrant Workers to Brazil – Challenges for Public Policies
Thursday (22nd), from 8 AM to 6:30 PM
Further information: http://www.camara.leg.br/eventos-divulgacao/evento?id=23098
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
