Migrants Together! will be the first national gathering of members and associates of Migrants' Rights Scotland, a newly formed, migrant-led organisation which works for a rights-based approach to migration, supporting migrants and their community organisations in developing skills to influence the policies that shape their lives here.

The day's gathering will spotlight migrants' voices and life situations. It will also feature the launch of a Communication Strategies Project through which migrant volunteers will collaborate to establish a communications platform to support a progresssive debate on migration and to feed Scottish perspectives into policy and advocacy debates in the UK.

Schedule

1000 Registration and Welcome Coffee

1030-1130  Migrants' Open Forum and Launch of Communication Strategies Project

1130-1145 Break

1145-1315 Migration Policy Affects Lives!

Wilf Sullivan, Race Equality Officer, TUC speaks on Immigration
Document Checkand Workplace Raids: A Negotiator’s Guide – new
publication from the TUC, written by Ruth Grove-white, MRN Policy Officer.

   Migrants Rights are Human Rights

Carole Ewart, Public Policy & Human Rights Consultant

Equal Opportunities for Migrants - Keynote Presentation

Christina McKelvie MSP, Parliamentary Equal Opportunities Committee member

So Far:

Don Flynn, Director of Migrants' Rights Network gives a session roundup and chairs

Open to the Floor, Q&A with the Speakers' Panel

1315-1400 Lunch

1400-1500 Hearing Regional Voices on employment and migration in Scotland

Breakout groups

1505-1545 Making the Voices Count: how social media can influence and get our stories heard!

1545 Closing Remarks

1600 Day ends