Round table discussion ’Let’s Meet - Refugees Our Neighbours’

Local news, 13.09.2021

In partnership with the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), the Crisis Response and Policy Centre (CRPC) organized and conducted the first round table discussion ’Let’s Meet - Refugees Our Neighbours’. This table was hosted by Deputy Mayor Miloš Colić at the City Hall on Monday, September 13th

Round table discussion  - Let’s Meet - Refugees Our Neighbours
Round table discussion - Let’s Meet - Refugees Our Neighbours ©CRPC

The event panellists were representatives of institutions and agencies whose scope of work involves inclusion and integration of refugees, asylum seekers and people in mixed migration – the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration (SCRM), the City of Pirot, the Swiss Embassy, UNHCR, IOM, and CRPC.

The round table created an opportunity for the citizens of Pirot and representatives of local authorities, the Police Department, the Centre for Social Work, elementary and secondary schools, local media and civil society organizations to discuss refugee and migrant inclusion and integration challenges and prospects. CRPC Director Vladimir Sjekloća presented an English reprint and Serbian translation of the publication ’Game People – Irregular Migration and Risks’.

Similar roundtable discussions with the local community will be organised in Kikinda, Obrenovac and finally in Belgrade.