The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, highlighted today in A Coruña the commitment of the Government to the integration of migrants and the promotion of the economy of care. He did so at the presentation of the conference ‘Immigration, Care and #Social Inequality’ at the Faculty of Sociology of the Universidade da Coruña (UDC), in which he stressed the importance of “defining strategies that can improve the lives of these people and society as a whole”.
María Rivas, who was accompanied at the inaugural table by the Vice President of Dissemination, Culture and Sport of the UDC, Cristina Naya, and the Councilor for Social Services, Participation and Equality of the City of A Coruña, Nereida Canosa, said that improving people’s lives “is a goal shared by the Government.”
In addition, he recalled that the care economy “is one of the pillars of the Recovery Plan and has a specific PERTE that mobilizes more than 2.5 billion euros and that it has already reached 4,461 entities throughout the country.”
The subdelegate highlighted the contribution of migrants to the advancement of our society, noting that “the future of our country depends on the contribution of people who come from outside; we need them and they need us,” she said. “Projects like this allow us to better understand their integration process, their demands and their contributions, so that later we, as a government, define a specific legal framework and accommodated employment policies,” he said.
In this respect, the subdelegate mentioned the advances in social protection in Spain and reforms such as those of the laws of dependency and disability that are going to allow a band, put in the center the rights of the people cared for and, on the other, promote the social valorization and dignification of the care work. He indicated that the people they care for are, in the vast majority, migrant women “who do so in precarious socio-professional conditions, without the recognition of society; people who leave a life behind and, in many cases, a family that continues to depend on it.”
To answer these questions, he explained, the Government proposes, among other measures, to change the model of residences, enhance the services and systems of teleassistance and home help and define a transversal strategy that involves training areas of education, labor regulation, etc.
To achieve this, Rivas said, the involvement of all the Administrations is necessary, because the objective of all these actions is to put care at the center of public policies and that the Administrations “become co-responsible for a work that cannot be only for women, that cannot be only for families or only for the private sector,” he concluded.