Improving Legal Assistance to Migrants in Brazil and Promoting their Access to Labour Markets

Migration flows to and from Brazil have profoundly changed over the past ten years, creating new challenges for the protection of migrants’ rights and access to labour markets. Although a new migration law was adopted and now incorporates the main standards and principles of international law, Brazil still needs to develop structured public policies to facilitate the integration of migrants.

This project will contribute to fostering migrant integration in Brazil by strengthening the capacity of the Federal Public Attorney staff and enhancing legal assistance to migrants.

An online course and training of trainers’ workshop aims to build the knowledge of civil servants and public attorneys with regard to the protection of migrants’ rights, in particular those of women and irregular migrants.

Furthermore, an analysis of corporate policies for migrants to access the Brazilian labour market will be carried out by the United Nations Global Compact Network partners. This analysis will review the main legal gaps preventing migrants from working for companies that are members of the UN Global Compact Network in Brazil. Finally, the UN Global Compact Network companies will take part in a workshop to acquire skills and tools to design and adopt innovative corporate social responsibility policies that focus on strengthening migrant integration, with special provision for women.