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MRCI is seeking to contribute to the creation of an intercultural society and in particular towards creating the conditions for inclusion of those migrant workers and their families who are in situations of vulnerability. We recently underwent a strategic planning process, which has identified the focus of our work for the period 2005 - 2008
 
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Access to Services: That migrant workers and their families have equality of access to and benefit from essential public services

Addressing Workplace Exploitation: That all migrant workers are free from exploitation in their work environment

Participation: That the opportunities and conditions are created for active participation by migrant workers and their families in decision making that affects them at all levels and in key policy developments

The activities of MRCI can be divided into three key programmes areas:

The Drop In Centre
The Drop In Centre Programme provides information, advice and assistance to migrant workers and their families who are in situations of vulnerability. It does this both directly through the Centre and the helpline based in Dublin, and indirectly through a system of referral contacts. As well as providing a crucial service in itself, the Drop In Centre, through effective data capture and analysis, supplies a solid base of evidence for developing policy change agendas.

Community Work
The active participation and inclusion of migrant workers at all levels of society is a strategic aim of MRCI. Community work is a process that enables this critical participation. It also facilitates the movement from a focus on individual needs and concerns to a focus on collective outcomes that have maximum benefit for migrant workers and their families. Community work addresses the root causes of poverty, inequality and exclusion. It seeks to support people and their communities to develop an analysis of their situation and take collective action to address it. Community work seeks to bring about the active participation of people experiencing exclusion in decision-making structures. It works from the following set of principles; collective action; participation and inclusion; empowering and enabling; process versus task; non-sexist; non-racist; solidarity not charity; starting where people are at; accountability; self determination; equality based; and thinking globally acting locally.

Policy Engagement
Through the Policy Engagement Programme, MRCI seeks to contribute constructively to the formation of migration policy which recognises the human rights of migrant workers and their families. Developments in the arena of anti-racism and migration at EU and international levels have a direct bearing on the Irish policy context. We therefore continue to engage at all of these levels. In addition to specific migration policy engagement, we will work to ensure that a focus on the needs of migrant workers is mainstreamed into general social and economic policy developments.