Policy Brief 1

In this first policy brief, we present policy recommendations to strengthen the positive impact of migrants on rural development, aiming to build immigration destinations and to initiate and strengthen rural development by migrant’s integration. We are going to discuss required framework conditions in order to profit from the benefits immigration can bring to rural areas. Therefore, elaborated measures and governance processes at all political levels in the MATILDE countries and at European level will focus on the possible changes of legal framework on rural development and on suggestions for the private sector (economy, NGOs, associations or the civil society), to make rural development and the use of the benefits from migration a joint project in rural regions