Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets

Federico, Veronica; Baglioni, Simone

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“…Akram and Paulo fell into low-skilled sectors, with precarious temporary contracts and over-qualification resulting in downward labour mobility (Iglesias-Martínez & Estrada, 2018). In addition, Paulo faced administrative barriers in validating his diplomas and certificates (Federico & Baglioni, 2021). Likewise, asylum denial resulted in a condition of vulnerability for Akram, a return to "zero kilometres," due to losing his residence and work permit and any kind of social and economic assistance from the government, after leaving the reception program.…”

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“…These young people experience difficulties accessing the regular educational system and in language learning; additionally, they tend to lack social support and strong community networks (e.g., Morrice et al, 2020). Furthermore, their families' socio-economic precariousness is compounded by other institutional obstacles, such as difficulties validating certificates and diplomas for access to professional courses or tertiary education and their employability (Federico & Baglioni, 2021).…”

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Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

Gabrielli

2023

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From an intersectional perspective, the situational and inherent vulnerability faced by two young asylum seekers in Catalonia, Spain, were analyzed through case studies that illustrate how these young people navigated within unpredictable and changing environments that hampered their embedded agency. Their settlement as social navigation highlights the temporal dimensions of the migration process. Waiting was also a key element that marked and regulated their settlement from a normative, relational, and existential dimension. The results highlight downward social mobility and precarious integration into the host society due to institutional, structural, and socio-cultural constraints.

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Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

Gabrielli

2023

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“…Nowadays, this is subsidised by the use of state funds for refugees and holders of international protection status, while asylum seekers and people outside the institutional system of reception are privately funded (Dimitriadis and Ambrosini, 2023b). The former enjoy unlimited access to the labour market, whereas asylum seekers are allowed to work only from the sixtieth day after submission of the application for international protection (Federico and Baglioni, 2021).…”

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“…While refugees are guaranteed a series of entitlements in relation to their access to labour markets (e.g. integration programmes), asylum seekers are conferred fewer rights and experience different treatment depending on the country they enter, including time limits on accessing formal employment (Federico and Baglioni, 2021).…”

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Refugees and asylum seekers in informal and precarious jobs: early labour market insertion from the perspectives of professionals and volunteers

Dimitriadis

2023

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PurposeThis article aims to explore the engagement of refugees and asylum seekers (RAS) in informal and precarious jobs from a civil society actors' perspective. Despite a burgeoning literature on refugee integration and a focus on institutional integration programmes, little is known about the early insertion of RAS into informal and precarious employment as an alternative to subsidised integration programmes, when these are available.Design/methodology/approachThis article draws on rich qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews with social workers, volunteers and other professionals supporting migrants.FindingsData analysis shows that migrants' insertion in informal jobs and their rejection of integration programmes may be the result of people's need to access financial capital to cover actual and future needs. Although such an engagement may be criticised for hampering RAS’ integration, it can be seen as an important source of agency against insecurity surrounding one's legal status.Originality/valueThis article highlights the importance of legal status precarity in shaping informal workers' agency and perceptions of them, opening up a debate on the relevance of informal work in terms of long-term integration and future migration trajectories.

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“…However, the implementation of integration policies is challenged by a series of structural, contextual and individual factors. These may include (a) policies regulating access to asylum and recognition of refugees' and asylum seekers' (RAS) qualifications and skills (Federico and Baglioni, 2021 ); (b) dispersal policies (van Liempt and Miellet, 2021 ); (c) local authorities' initiatives and bureaucracies' acts in favor of or against newly arrived people (Hinger et al, 2016 ); (d) the role of the civil society in facilitating or hindering integration processes (Dimitriadis et al, 2021 ); and (e) language barriers and psychological distress among newly arrived people due to the situation in their home country, experiences during the journey and waiting times for a decision on their asylum status (Federico and Baglioni, 2021 ).…”

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Constrained to be (im)mobile? Refugees' and Asylum seekers' practices to integrate in restrictive socio-economic urban contexts in Northern Italy

Dimitriadis

Ambrosini

2023

Front. Sociol.

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This article comparatively examines forms of (im)mobility among refugees and asylum seekers (RAS) in coping with dispersal process, restrictive migration policies and local socio-economic characteristics in three cities of Northern Italy. Drawing on qualitative data, it sheds light on the everyday forms of (im)mobility of RAS to resist structural barriers limiting their opportunities to access jobs and welfare services. The Results show that people's capacity to overcome barriers depends upon individual characteristics and informal networks, and is shaped by particularities of local contexts. While people's regular legal status is considered an important resource in achieving goals, refugees and holders of international protection often have to adopt (im)mobility practices to access resources in contexts that do not facilitate their integration. This article highlights the inefficiency of integration and reception policies and advances the theoretical debate on the link between being (im)mobile and agency by calling authors to pay more attention to the (in)voluntary nature of spatial (im)mobility. Finally, it shows the ambivalent outcome of (im)mobilities in terms of agency, highlighting the implications for individuals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets

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Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

Refugees and asylum seekers in informal and precarious jobs: early labour market insertion from the perspectives of professionals and volunteers

Constrained to be (im)mobile? Refugees' and Asylum seekers' practices to integrate in restrictive socio-economic urban contexts in Northern Italy

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