Financial Disadvantage Among Migrant Households

Description

Increased understanding of migrant experiences and support for new, imaginative and effective ways to confront challenges and inequalities are central to MPS work.  

This two-year project (2023 – 2025) aims to enhance strategic policy thinking on effective interventions to reduce financial disadvantage for low-to-middle income migrant households. It will:

  • Provide evidence on barriers for migrant households to increase incomes; additional costs for migrant households; challenges in the delivery of financial inclusion and employability services.
  • Trial a new approach to policymaking through mobilising the knowledge of multiple stakeholders through a series of policy-laboratories.
  • Develop and advocate for the implementation of clearly articulated, feasible and effective recommendations for policy and practice.

The project is designed and delivered in partnership with:

The project is funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust

In October 2024 we launched our first project report Open the Door: Migrants Facing Financial Disadvantage and their Needs for Support. This is accompanied by our Policy briefing: Including Migrants in Policy and Practice to Reduce poverty 

The Launch event also marked the starting point of our Policy Laboratory which will drive change in policymaking and practice through co-development of  feasible, fundable and effective solutions.

Feedback from the launch event:
As someone who has experienced migration and currently works in the advice sector I found the report resonated both with my own experience and of what we see in the sector. The report has ignited a renewed call to reflect on our services and how we can truly bring the ‘no wrong door’ policy into practice. We regularly challenge local and national governments to ensure their policy and practice line up, and this report calls on us in the advice sector to do just that in our own provision. MPS does really well to bring together policy and lived experience in an evidenced based way and continuing in that approach will have an impact.