Overarching trends and recommendations to improve labour market access for displaced migrants - Key findings and recommendations

Second, states documents, statistics and evaluations together with like Cyprus and Italy have created a two-tiered system with interviews with stakeholders from national, regional and regard to labour market integration where certain local authorities and the third sector conducted in 2019 in professional activities are favoured over others. [...] In Italy, to integrate into the labour market and a more lenient set of researchers worked in different locations covering the rules for others such as economic migrants and high-net territory of Calabria, focusing on two main cities (Cosenza, worth individuals that enjoy full rights to live and work Catanzaro) and in places with a high density of non-Italian freely. [...] Lastly, in Sweden the Introduction Programme for new arrivals has proven to be too short to Conversely, in Scotland, successes in employment/ establish themselves in the local labour market as enterprise/employer engagement have been a result of language training and other services offered require more intense local activity, not national policy or infrastructure, time to master new skills. [...] In Sweden, regions not only benefit from a funded and • Provide enhanced training/support for local officers to institutional multi-level governance framework to support ensure labour market approaches are tailored to and and coordinate new arrival labour market integration, but appropriate for local markets. [...] Requirements such as this are misaligned to the needs of In addition to legal status implications, migrants’ ability to refugees because displaced migrants are often very far engage with the local labour market is gravely impacted from the labour market.