This publication Working Together for Local Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Paris was produced by the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. It is part of a wider project “A territorial approach to migrant integration: The role of local authorities” and an output of an OECD European Union initiative contributing to the programme of work of the OECD’s Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC).
Co-ordination of the wider project and this case study was led by Claire Charbit, Head of the Territorial Dialogue and Migration Unit in the Regional Development and Tourism Division managed by Alain Dupeyras, in CFE. This case study was drafted by Anna Piccinni, Maria Trullén Malaret and Gaetan Muller (OECD). It benefitted from substantial inputs made by Charlotte Demuijnck, Paola Proietti, Vivianne Spitzhofer, Lisanne Raderschall and Marcos Diaz-Ramirez (OECD). This case study also benefitted from the comments of other OECD directorates and in particular from Cécile Thoreau, International Migration Division of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS).
This case study has been developed thanks to the close collaboration of the municipality of Paris that provided the information and organised meetings for the OECD field work, as well as the support of the national government officials who provided information. The Secretariat would like to express its gratitude to all participants to the interviews (see Annex 1). In particular, the OECD thanks Dominique Versini, Deputy Mayor of Paris for Solidarity, the Fight Against Exclusion, Refugee Reception and Child Protection, for her ongoing support throughout the process of the case study as well as to Anne-Charlotte Leluc and Charlotte Schneider, members of her team.
The Secretariat is especially thankful for the financial contribution and the collaboration throughout the implementation of the project to the European Union Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy. In particular, the Secretariat would like to thank Andor Urmos for their guidance as well as for their substantive inputs to the revision of the case study.