D4 Published development or research report or study
Policy barriers and enablers : WP3 report (2019)


Lillie, N., Bontenbal, I., Isaakyan, I., Hoření, K., Sen, S., Bjerre, L., Pace, M., Pekkarinen, A.-G., Bagavos, C., Kourachanis, N., Lagoudakou, K., Xatzigiannakou, K., Touri, P., Maggini, N., Ibrido, R., Mexi, M., Moreno Russi, P., Fischbach, A., Caló, F., . . . Baglioni, S. (2019). Policy barriers and enablers : WP3 report. Sirius project, Glasgow Caledonian University. WP reports and results, D3.2. https://www.sirius-project.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/SIRIUS WP3 - D3.2_0.pdf


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All authors or editors: Lillie, Nathan; Bontenbal, Ilona; Isaakyan, Irina; Hoření, Karina; Sen, Somdeep; Bjerre, Liv; Pace, Michelle; Pekkarinen, Anna-Greta; Bagavos, Christos; Kourachanis, Nikos; et al.

Journal or series: WP reports and results

Publication year: 2019

Number in series: D3.2

Number of pages in the book: 667

Publisher: Sirius project, Glasgow Caledonian University

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

Persistent website address: https://www.sirius-project.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/SIRIUS WP3 - D3.2_0.pdf

Publication open access: Other way freely accessible online

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Abstract

This report details the findings of the third SIRIUS work package, focusing on migrant labour market integration (MLI) policies and services. The objectives of migrant labour market integration (hereinafter MLI) policies are 1) helping migrants to overcome handicaps and skill deficits to better succeed in host country labour markets 2) better matching migrants’ characteristics to employer needs by, for example, training them or guiding them to labour shortage occupations. Our report covers policies in the SIRIUS partner countries, namely the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and thus we present a wide variety of different national contexts. In addition, we also detail European Union specific policies and programmes.
The research of this work package was divided into two main tasks which are a) policy discourse analysis and b) assessment of existing policies and their outcomes. A policy discourse analysis was conducted by the SIRIUS national teams, to identify and analyse how issues of labour market integration are discussed by policy-makers and policy actors. By analysing the findings of the discourse analysis together with the assessment of policies, which forms the second part of the work package, we evaluate the consistency between policy rhetoric and policy goals. The second part of the work package consists of a policy assessment in which the barriers to labour market integration and existing policies to remedy them are identified, categorised and evaluated. This was performed using a meta-analysis of the existing national literatures, and interviews with policy experts, implementers, and beneficiaries of MLI policies.


Keywords: migration policy; immigrants; guidance for immigrants; labour market; migrant integration


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VIRTA submission year: 2019


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