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REM - The Council for Ethnic Minorities
The Integration Council
Municipal authorities can establish integration councils. The job
of these councils is to advise municipal authorities about ways in which new citizens and ethnic minorities can actively participate in the local community. Your municipal authority can tell you whether it has an integration council. You can also encourage your municipal authority to set up an integration council.
The local integration councils elect representatives to the
nationwide Council for Ethnic Minorities (REM), which advises the government.
was established in 1999 by the Integration Act aiming to promote participation of ethnic minorities in all areas of society. The Council advises the Minister of Refugee, Immigrant and Integration affairs on issues of importance to immigrants and refugees. Read the rest of the article...
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