Resources
In this section, you can find a collection of documents about European policies and legislations that regulate the business environment for migrant entrepreneurs. These resources are aimed at facilitating the work of migrant entrepreneurs and policy makers.Barcelona Declaration to Support Migrant Entrepreneurship
On April 4th 2019, 40 different organizations working in migrant entrepreneurship and related fields gathered in Barcelona and worked on creating a declaration to support migrant entrepreneurship. The declaration outlays certain rights for migrants and calls for the...
read more‘#Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees
Written by Lewis Turner Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019 In the recent years, the ‘refugee entrepreneur’ has emerged as a prominent figure in humanitarian, media and academic portrayals of refugees – stressing their ‘self-reliance’,...
read more“Call Me a Business Owner, Not a Refugee!” Challenges of and Perspectives on Newcomer Entrepreneurship – WRC Research Paper No. 7
Written by UBNA RASHID:Participating in the labour market is vital to newcomers’ successful integration in the host country. Although most newcomers participate through wage earning, some start their own businesses. Refugee entrepreneurship has substantial benefits...
read morePlacing Migrant Entrepreneurship: Migrant Economy Debates through New Spatial Lenses
Written by Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Berta Güell, Sònia Parella, José Luis Molina, Miranda Jessica Lubbers:The category of space is essential in migration studies and it is implicitly present in the literature about migrant entrepreneurs. However, there is a lack of...
read moreWelcoming talent? A comparative study of immigrant entrepreneurs’ entry policies in France, Germany and the Netherlands
Written by Tesseltje de Lange:This article explores the admission policies for self-employed non-EU immigrants wanting to start or move their business to the European Union (EU). Selecting immigrant entrepreneurs is a specific and understudied policy strand in the...
read moreJobs in 2028: How Will Changing Labor Markets Affect Immigrant Integration in Europe?
In 2028, European labor markets are likely to look quite different than they do today. Technological trends such as digitization and the advent of online job platforms are colliding with long-term demographic and cultural shifts to reshape how and where work is...
read moreTech Jobs for Refugees: Assessing the Potential of Coding Schools for Refugee Integration in Germany
Though the immediate pressures Germany faced during the 2015–16 European migration and refugee crisis have eased somewhat, the country is grappling with a new challenge: helping refugees find work and establish themselves economically. Given Germany’s aging population...
read moreWorking Together for Local Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Paris
The municipality of Paris uses different policy tools to attract and integrate migrants who choose the city as their destination. This report investigates in particular three of them. First, the report describes some of the generic services that each municipal...
read morePromoting Labour Market Integration of Refugees with Trade Preferences: Beyond the EU-Jordan Compact
Trade preferences provide a potential policy tool for supporting refugee employment in countries of first asylum. Thus, in the context of the EU-Jordan Compact agreed in 2016, the EU eased the rules of origin for Jordanian exporters employing a minimum share of Syrian...
read moreProtecting Migrant Workers from Exploitation in the EU: Boosting Workplace Inspections
Severe labour exploitation is widespread across the European Union. While workplace inspections can help counter this phenomenon, they need to be strengthened to do so effectively. Based on interviews and focus group discussions with almost 240 exploited workers...
read moreFast Lane to the Labour Market and VET, State of the Art Reports
The ‘Fast Lane to the Labour Market’ project offers an innovative approach for the problem of integrating refugees into the labour market. With its approach being both integrative and co-operational, based on the principles of Work-based learning (WBL), ECVET as well...
read more(The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe
In this paper, the IZA Institute of Labor Economics use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across several EU countries and over time. In the first part, the IZA Institute of Labor Economics document that labour...
read moreOECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 216 Triple Disadvantage?
45% of refugees in Europe are women, yet little is known on their integration outcomes and the specific challenges they face. This report summarises prior research on the integration of refugee women, both compared with refugee men and other immigrant women. It also...
read moreApproaches to the Labour Market Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
This report expands on existing research on the labour market integration of refugees and asylum seekers as a response to the refugee crisis. It updates information on legislation and practical arrangements in the first half of 2016, examines labour market integration...
read morePolicies to Support Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Policymakers in top migrant-receiving countries increasingly recognize the well-documented benefits of immigrant entrepreneurship. Immigrants are more likely to start businesses than their native-born peers, despite increased obstacles. In countries with a strong...
read moreEmployers Together for Integration and the European Alliance for Apprenticeships
On 23 May 2017, the European Commission launched the initiative 'Employers together for integration' to give visibility to what employers are doing to support the integration of refugees and other migrants into the labour market. By describing their current and future...
read moreAction Plan on the Integration of Third-Country Nationals
The Action Plan provides a comprehensive framework to support Member States' efforts in developing and strengthening their integration policies and describes the concrete measures the Commission will implement in this regard. Find out more with:
read moreEU Cooperation Networks for Migrant Integration
To strengthen policy cooperation and facilitate knowledge exchange between EU Member States and other relevant migrant integration stakeholders on European, national, regional and local level, 3 main networks were initiated by the European Commission. Find out more...
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- Barcelona Declaration Final: Turning Migrants into Job Creators
- “Call Me a Business Owner, Not a Refugee!” Challenges of and Perspectives on Newcomer Entrepreneurship – WRC Research Paper No. 7
- Placing Migrant Entrepreneurship: Migrant Economy Debates through New Spatial Lenses
- Welcoming talent? A comparative study of immigrant entrepreneurs’ entry policies in France, Germany and the Netherlands
- Jobs in 2028: How Will Changing Labor Markets Affect Immigrant Integration in Europe?
- Tech Jobs for Refugees: Assessing the Potential of Coding Schools for Refugee Integration in Germany
- Working Together for Local Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Paris
- Promoting Labour Market Integration of Refugees with Trade Preferences: Beyond the EU-Jordan Compact
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 216 Triple Disadvantage?;
- (The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe;
- Protecting Migrant Workers from Exploitation in the EU: Boosting Workplace Inspections;
- European Partnerships for Integration: Offering Opportunities for Refugees to Integrate into the European Labour Market;
- Action Plan on the Integration of Third Country nationals;
- European Alliance for Apprenticeships;
- Policies to Support Immigrant Entrepreneurship;
- Approaches to the Labour Market Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers;
This website is part of the project Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow — EMEN-UP (no. 764398) which has received funding from the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020)
The Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow
This website is part of the project Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow — EMEN-UP (no. 764398) which has received funding from the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020)
The Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow