Mainstreaming Solutions: New approaches for effective interventions to tackle poverty in migrant households
An MPS Policy Brief Migration Policy Scotland’s project Tackling Financial Disadvantage in Migrant Households adds to clear and growing evidence that inequalities linked to experiences of migration and deriving from the immigration system impact significantly on poverty in migrant households across Scotland. We have found that migrants from a broad range of nationalities and across […]
Policy Briefing: Including Migrants in Policy and Practice to Reduce Poverty
Migration Policy Scotland’s research shows that migrants are disadvantaged in relation to each of the main pathways to poverty reduction recognised by Scottish Government and Scotland’s wider anti-poverty movement: reducing costs; increasing incomes through employment; and increasing awareness and uptake of social security entitlements. Their needs are too often overlooked or treated as niche and […]