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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’,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:

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...