Civil Society Organizations and Labour Market Integration for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Greece

Bagavos, Christos; Kourachanis, Nikos

doi:10.1007/s11266-021-00333-x

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“…Duszczyk et al, 2020;Gregurović & Župarić-Iljić, 2018). Recent works on Greece remain limited in covering the complexities of the issues in relation to the crises; they address policy related issues, including those concerning basic needs and work (Afouxenidis et al, 2017;Bagavos & Kourachanis, 2021;Frangiskou et al, 2020;Manou et al, 2021;Papatzani et al, 2022). Chapters 13, 14 and 15 of Part V add to the above literature with fresh perspectives on the perennial integration challenges Greece was faced with during a period of consecutive crises, including the pandemic of Covid-19.…”

Section: Crises and Migration Related Work On Greece: Situating The C...mentioning

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Introduction: Challenging Mobilities, Greece and the EU in Times of Crises

Kousis

Chatzidaki

Kafetsios

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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With a broader view of ‘crisis’ not only as temporal interruption, but also as opportunity and constraint, the volume offers a multidisciplinary perspective on challenging mobilities arising during the 2009–2021 period in Greece, the epicentre of the Eurozone crisis, EU’s main gate in the ‘refugee crisis’ and a country experiencing the Covid-19 pandemic. Its contributors from social sciences and humanities, mathematics, health and legal sciences, document how crises interact with migration processes at the individual, organisational and macro levels on critical junctures of economic, humanitarian and governance emergencies. Its fresh empirical and theoretical insights on an ‘exceptional’ South European periphery case contribute to the existing migration literature, especially in reference to the third wave of emigrants, crises-affected host attitudes, solidarity and claims-making, mobility reception transitions and perennial integration challenges. Illuminating the dynamic interactions between crises and migration processes involving supra-state, state and non-state actors as well as citizens and migrants/displaced people, the volume offers new knowledge and insights on the challenges and complexities of crisis-related mobilities. These centre on the ways in which crisis-related opportunities and threats affect transnationalism, collective action, migrants’ political agency, governance and reception practices, as well as secondary migration.

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Introduction: Challenging Mobilities, Greece and the EU in Times of Crises

Kousis

Chatzidaki

Kafetsios

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…Countries in which the public sector has always played a residual role in delivering public services in the field of labour market integration, as is the case for Greece and Italy, are characterised by dynamics where CSOs take the lead in implementing and often designing services to support the diverse needs of newcomers, as Bagavos and Kourachanis (2021) and Collini (2022), respectively, explain in their articles. In these countries, the residual public sector intervention opens spaces for CSOs to play a major role in facilitating integration in the labour market in a partial co-production process that sees the involvement of civil society actors in both planning and delivering services.…”

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The Role of Civil Society in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Europe: An Introduction

2022

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This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue that discusses the role of civil society in the labour market integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in six European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK. The paper presents a typology of civil society’s involvement in migrant labour integration—a policy-contested field—based on the relationship between non-profit and public sector organisations. Such ideal-type models are traditional public administration delivery, co-management, co-production with a partial or non-existent role for public sector organisations, and full co-production. In the six countries covered by the special issue, the existing relationship between the public sector and the civil society sector is affected by the specific social, cultural and economic contexts that underpin both their labour markets and welfare states. Although one model predominates in each of the six countries, in different ways and with different mechanisms, in all of them there is a trend towards the development of coproduction whereby the state plays either a central or a residual role.

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“…In contrast, in smaller German cities there has been an absence of the institutional settings that operate as long-term points of contact, such as university societies and civil society organizations [26]. In Greece, the absence of any long-term integration strategy of refugees into the labor market has resulted in sporadic funding schemes that limit the mentoring and training activities towards employability provided by specific organizations, such as Civil Society Organizations and employment agencies [27]. In Sweden, highly skilled refugees have lower employment levels and relative earnings than the natives [28].…”

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Working Conditions, Employment, Career Development and Well-Being of Refugee Researchers

Tzoraki¹,

Dimitrova

Barzakov

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The ongoing ‘refugee crisis’ of the past years has led to the migration of refugee researchers (RRs) to European countries. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, RRs often had to work from home and/or to continue their social, cultural and economic integration process under new conditions. An online survey carried out to explore the impact of the pandemic on the refugee researchers showed that RRs found it difficult to adapt their everyday working life to the ‘home’ setting. The majority have had neither a suitable work environment at home nor the appropriate technology. Although they stated that they are rather pleased with the measures taken by the public authorities, they expressed concern about their vulnerability due to their precarious contracts and the bureaucratic asylum procedures, as the pandemic has had a negative impact on these major issues. The majority of RRs working in academia seem not to have been affected at all as far as their income is concerned, while the majority of those employed in other sectors became unemployed during the pandemic (58%). Recommendations are provided to the public authorities and policy makers to assist RRs to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic on their life.

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Civil Society Organizations and Labour Market Integration for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Greece

Cited by 14 publications

References 14 publications

Introduction: Challenging Mobilities, Greece and the EU in Times of Crises

Introduction: Challenging Mobilities, Greece and the EU in Times of Crises

The Role of Civil Society in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Europe: An Introduction

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Working Conditions, Employment, Career Development and Well-Being of Refugee Researchers

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