Across Europe, Caritas works on a daily basis with migrants who face barriers to integration and to social inclusion processes.

These barriers are cultural, structural and economic and they hinder migrants’ capacity to fully participate in the receiving communities. Caritas’s experience shows that to overcome these barriers, working with receiving communities is just as important as working with migrants.

In this sense, Caritas provides for innovative experiences that empower migrants and the receiving communities for a better integration and to foster a positive approach to migration.

In this leaflet we have gathered some of these innovative experiences, along with some thoughts and stories of the people involved. You can also read more about this topic in our publication ‘WELCOME! Migrants make Europe stronger. Caritas’s practices for an inclusive Europe’.