scholarly journals SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND LABOUR MARKET ACCESS FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS IN KRONOBERG COUNTY IN SWEDEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 346 (92) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Magdalena ELMKVIST ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Market Access

scholarly journals Asylum-seekers and refugees within Europe and labour market integration

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Johanna K Schenner ◽  
Anders Neergaard
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees ◽  
The Eu

This special issue seeks to investigate and understand the various experiences of asylum-seekers, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and refugees in accessing labour markets across the EU and EEA countries. The first section of this introduction provides an overview of the three groups of people who are the focus of this special issue and their relationship to the labour markets in the EU Member States and EEA countries. The second section provides insights into how the essential features of their labour market integration may be understood by using Levitas’ discourse analysis. The third section explores a range of different labour market access dimensions by focusing not only on the human capital aspects of migration in general but also on the contextual factors of civic stratification; the broader societal context, including public opinion and civil society; the background and situation of earlier migrants, especially asylum-seekers and refugees with respect to national/federal laws; and the countries of origin of migrants as well as demographic trends across the EU. The fourth and final section explains and justifies the focus of this special issue and emphasises the relevance of this topic.

scholarly journals Labour Market Access for Asylum Seekers and Refugees under the Common European Asylum System

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Weber
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Common European Asylum System ◽  
The Common ◽  
Market Needs

The paper identifies a policy inconsistency between the eu’s asylum and the eu’s labour migration policies and makes a call for stronger convergence. The analysis starts off by setting out the eu’s current and future economic challenges with a view to its ageing population and low fertility rates, which displays the eu’s need for migrants. Two trends can be observed: The lacking success of Europe’s highly-skilled regime, i.e. the Blue Card scheme, casts doubts on the suitability of the eu’s labour migration policy and its ability to meet the eu’s labour market’s needs this way. Labour market access for people that come to the eu to seek asylum on the other hand is subject to quite a number of restrictions. The lack of coordination seems short-sighted. In an attempt to advocate for stronger coherence the paper sets out the rights to access the eu labour market of those who come to the eu as asylum seekers in detail and explores reform potential where these rights can be expanded consistent with the eu’s labour market needs. It looks at eu law in general and refers to Germany as an implementation example.

scholarly journals Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?

2019 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Slotwinski ◽  
Alois Stutzer ◽  
Roman Uhlig
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Early Integration ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Labor Market Access ◽  
The One

Abstract In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper their participation in the labor market, in particular during the important initial period of their stay in the host country. In order to evaluate whether inclusive labor market policies increase the labor market participation of asylum seekers, we exploit the variation in asylum policies in Swiss cantons to which asylum seekers are as good as randomly allocated. During our study period from 2011 to 2014, the employment rate among asylum seekers varied between 0 and 30.2% across cantons. Our results indicate that labor market access regulations are responsible for a substantial proportion of these differences, in which an inclusive regime increases participation by 11 percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the one in their host canton. Summary Inclusive labor market access regulations substantially increase the employment chances of asylum seekers, in particular if the language distance is short.

scholarly journals Latino Youth and Machismo: Working Towards a More Complex Understanding of Marginalized Masculinities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Meza Opazo
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Latino Youth ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Social Marginalization ◽  
Integration Data ◽  
Sociological Studies

Academic and mainstream discourses have discussed Latino youth machismo in overwhelmingly negative terms, defining it as misogynistic, reckless, and violent. Even the sociological studies that have conceptualized machismo as a byproduct of social marginalization posit it as inherently destructive. Some emerging American literature has sought to consider the positive aspects of Latino masculinity through explorations of familism and caballerismo, but these have been set in opposition to, as opposed to a part of, machismo. This study aims to address post-structuralist calls for a more positive exploration of machismo by considering the ways in which Latino youth in Toronto conceive of their masculinities in relation to familism and social integration. Data emerging from focus group discussions suggest that these youth rely on machismo to assist in their integration into the Canadian labour market, their survival in the streets of their communities, and that there is a gendered basis to their adherence to familism.

scholarly journals Gerry Rogers (ed) Urban Poverty and the Labour Market: Access to lobs and Incomes in Asian and Latin American aties. Geneva: International labour Office. 1989. Price: 35 Swiss Francs (Softbound Edition).

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-189
Author(s):  
Sohail J. Malik
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Development Models ◽  
The People ◽  
Growth Centres ◽  
World Development ◽  
Effective Contribution

In the period 1965 to 1985, the per capita consumption in the developing world went up by almost 70 percent. Yet one billion of the people in the developing countries today are living in poverty [World Development Report (1990)]. Despite the growth in incomes and consumption, the problem of poverty is enormous. In most development models a large reserve of low-paid workers (often rural based) is seen as a precondition for industrialization (often urban based), which in turn is seen as synonymous with development. It is the exploitation of these workers to generate the surpluses necessary for growth in the urban growth centres that forms the basis of policy in most developing countries. The very processes that generate this growth also make these workers the most vulnerable to poverty. And if stagnation or recession sets in, the results are disasterous. The book under review makes an effective contribution to focusing attention on the issues of urban poverty and the labour market.

scholarly journals The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crime, and Public Policy in Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (12) ◽  
pp. 4378-4425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Couttenier ◽  
Veronica Petrencu ◽  
Dominic Rohner ◽  
Mathias Thoenig
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Childhood Exposure ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Labor Market Access ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Unique Dataset

We study empirically how past exposure to conflict in origin countries makes migrants more violence-prone in their host country, focusing on asylum seekers in Switzerland. We exploit a novel and unique dataset on all crimes reported in Switzerland by the nationalities of perpetrators and of victims over 2009–2016. Our baseline result is that cohorts exposed to civil conflict/mass killing during childhood are 35 percent more prone to violent crime than the average cohort. This effect is particularly strong for early childhood exposure and is mostly confined to co-nationals, consistent with inter-group hostility persisting over time. We exploit cross-region heterogeneity in public policies within Switzerland to document which integration policies are best able to mitigate the detrimental effect of past conflict exposure on violent criminality. We find that offering labor market access to asylum seekers eliminates two-thirds of the effect. (JEL D74, F22, K42, Z18)

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