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Building welcoming<br />
communities for migrants<br />
The URBACT network <strong>WELDI</strong> (2023-25) promotes local action to safeguard<br />
human rights, and to guarantee a right to the city for all residents, regardless<br />
of their nationality or residence status. Under this universal objective,<br />
<strong>WELDI</strong> focuses on migrants -and newcomers in particular- whose rights are<br />
jeopardised in specific ways: through a precarious residence status, unfamiliarity<br />
with the new environment, discrimination and exploitation, or a lack<br />
of language skills. <strong>WELDI</strong> explores potential synergies where newcomers<br />
are supported in a way that also benefits the host society - e.g. through<br />
mixed infrastructures and support offers, wherever possible. <strong>WELDI</strong> partners<br />
believe this is a good way to bring newcomers and established residents<br />
together, tackle anti-migrant bias and underscore their desire to uphold and<br />
guarantee access to human rights.<br />
Author: Lead Expert Dirk Gebhardt with the support of<br />
the partners of the <strong>WELDI</strong> action planning network<br />
February 2024
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