Partners

Posted On: June 26, 2009

Partners

The partner organisations have strong experience involving migrant communities in their work and they and their countries importantly represent a wide range of migrant experiences that can highlight differences in the contexts and experiences for the work with media and migrants in Europe.

UNITED KINGDOM:

Migrants Resource Centre

The lead partner is the Migrants Resource Centre (MRC) The MRC has a London-wide remit for its media work.  It runs the Migrant and Refugee Media Project and has extensive experience of working with media workers to produce newspapers, reports and short documentaries dealing with the situation of vulnerable migrants.

Contact:

Migrants and the Media Project Coordinator

Migrants Resource Centre

24 Churton Street

London SW1V 2LP

United Kingdom

Tel: + 44 20 7834 2505 ext 102

Email: empowerment@migrants.org.uk

www.migrantsresourcecentre.org.uk

The Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN).

The MRN is a UK-wide network of organisations working on issues concerning the rights of migrants. Its particular expertise lies in policy analysis and lobbying. MRN considerable experience in working with European networks, such as PICUM and ENAR.

Contact:

Don Flynn – Director

Migrants Rights Network

Club Union House

253-254 UPPER STREET

LONDON N1 1RY

United Kingdom

Tel: + 44 207 288 1267, FAX: 00 44 20 7354 56 20

Email: d.flynn@migrantsrights.org.uk

www.migrantsrights.org.uk

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND:

FOMACS

The lead partner in Ireland is the Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS). FOMACS has a three-year media-driven programme producing print, photographic, broadcast and interactive stories on the topic of immigration and integration, with the aim of reaching and engaging diverse audiences and constituencies.

Contact:

Aine O’Brien – Director

FOMACS

Dublin Institute of Technology

Faculty of Applied Arts

Aungier Street

Dublin 2

Rep of Ireland

Tel: +353 1 402 3006

Email: Aine.obrien@dit.ie

www.fomacs.org

HUNGARY:

Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants

Menedek was established in 1995 as a civil initiative supporting migrant integration in Hungary. Since Hungary is a new accession country, Menedek wil be able to provide important insight in the ways in which public discussion on migration is developing in the central European region.

Contact:

Andras Kovats – Director

MENEDEK – Hungarian Association for Migrants

H-1077 Budapest

Josika Utka 2. I/4

Hungary

Tel: 0036 1 322 1502 or 0036 1 344 6224

Fax.: 06 1 479 0272

Email: kovand@mtapti.hu

www.menedek.hu/

SPAIN:

Cepaim – Accion Integral con Migrantes.

Cepaim is a network of 8 organisations working throughout Spain to support the integration of migrants. It currently runs projects aimed at influencing public opinion in matters concerning the social position of migrants and has been involving migrant communities in this work.

Contact:

Rosalia Guntin

CEPAIM

Avenida Fabian Escribano Moreno 77

MURCIA 30570

SPAIN

www.cepaim.org

Tel: 0034 915 48 3163

Email: guntin@cepaim.org

www.cepaim.org

GREECE:

Centre for Research on Women’s Issues, Network DESME

Network DESME is a project supporting the rights of migrant women in Greece.  The DESME network in Greece will bring a strong perspective on the position of women migrants from the standpoint of an important feminist organisation in that country which has begun work with vulnerable women migrants.

Contact:

Maria Liapi

CRWI, NETWORK DESME

24 NIKIS STR

SYNTAGMA

ATHENS 105 57

GREECE

Tel: 0030 210 3244 380, Fax: 0030 210 3227 706

Email: diotima@otenet.gr

www.genderissues.org.gr