SIRIUS the new project promoting refugees’ and asylum seekers’ integration via the labour market
SIRIUS the new project promoting refugees’ and asylum seekers’ integration via the labour market
UNHCR and OECD stressed the primary importance of refugees’ and asylum seekers’ integration into the labour market, as they launched the new Action Plan to boost refugees’ employment, that underlines the indispensable importance of the skills and abilities of refugees as significant economic potential for receiving countries.
SIRIUS, a project in which SOLIDAR is involved under the HORIZON 2020 programme, wants to develop the integration of refugees and asylum seekers into the labour market. There is a primary need for European Countries to work out an evidence-based way to deal with migration and asylum rather than a prejudice-based one.
The main objectives of the project are:
- providing systematic evidence on post-2014 migrants, refugees and asylum applicants
- advancing knowledge on the complexity of labour market integration for post-2014 migrants, refugees and asylum applicants, and exploring their integration potential by looking into their spatial distribution
- advancing a theoretical framework for an inclusive integration agenda, outlining an optimal mix of policy pathways for labour market integration.
The project has a duration of three years, and is managed by a consortium of different partners active in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and led by the Caledonian University of Glasgow (UK). The project website has been active since last Monday.
SOLIDAR and its members highlight the need to:
- consider the refugees as having social rights just like the other citizens of hosting countries
- promote labour market inclusion as one of the main sources of integration
- encourage the recognition of refugees’ and asylum seekers’ skills beyond the borders.
