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Migrants' microintegration into work and social life

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-NO01-KA204-076456
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 98,608 EUR

Migrants' microintegration into work and social life

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"“Integration requires not only the will and commitment of the immigrants as well as the support of the receiving society, but above all one thing: time. In addition, integration policy must not overlook people with a migrant background who have been living in Austria for some time already.” (Dr. Pabel, Chairwoman of the Expert Council for Integration in AT, ÖIF Report 2020).An integration process can be a personal burden for a newcomer or minority member. At the same time, weakly integrated immigrants can represent a significant social and economic burden for a society. Research has shown that -for migrants themselves- slow or ineffective integration often causes an experience of hopelessness and frustration, leading to mental illness, unemployment and further problems. In society, these negative processes can lead to prejudice, discrimination and xenophobia. In Norway, Austria and Greece, i.e. the partner countries of the MiMi - Migrants' microintegration into work and social life - project, many organisations and government agencies are working on different aspects of the integration process. They often lack, however, actual consideration of migrants' concrete life situation and real concerns (micro level) and, at the same time, do not consider integration as a ""two way process"", i.e. a give and take of both, migrants and the members of society individuals move into.In Norway, there is an official agreement and policy that successful integration of migrants is determined by people`s personal surroundings, i.e. labour and community integration: The Norwegian Ministry of Education declared in its 2019-2022 integration strategy “Integration through knowledge” that one of the government's main projects is to implement an integration lift. The goal is that immigrants should participate more actively in working and social life. All who are living in Norway must be part of our community. The main objective of the integration strategy is that more immigrants get out into work, so that they can support themselves and their families. (Regjeringens integreringsstrategi)Greece has faced enormous migration waves since 2015, with flows continuing (UNHCR, 2020). The 2019 integration strategy identifies the promotion of integration into education, labour market and access to public services as important components for immigrants’ integration (EUROPEAN WEBSITE ON INTEGRATION, 2020). The Austrian government has initiated refugees’/ asylum title holders’ integration into the education system, providing a variety of training possibilities.A crucial aspect about integrating well into society is entering the labour market (in official jobs), necessary for staying in Austria. And, it is particularly Afghani, Syrians, Iraqi showing the lowest labour force participation (employment rate 2018:36% vs 7.7% overall unemployment Statistik Austria/ 4.9% acc. to ILO). Still, “it is necessary to further intensify efforts to integrate migrants. A decrease in the number of asylum applications does not mean a decrease in the number of migrants to be integrated. The economic and cultural integration of people who have recently migrated is a process that is currently taking place intensively, but it is far from completed.” (ÖIF , 2020).MiMi will offer practical solutions and material for daily work with migrants following the aim of particularly improving their personal integration in work and social life. During its implementation stage, the project will actively involve min. 150 facilitators (and reach 500), as well as involve 150 final migrant beneficiaries (and reach min 500 by exploitation). By dissemination, an overall number of 5000 individuals will be reached.O1 - Migrants' Micro-integration into work life – a practice set for recipient labour representatives offers new details on micro-integration which they (e.g. teachers, coaches, but also HR counsellors/ managers at companies) could use for better supporting the integration process. O2 provides “work and social life - mind-changers” learning material to them, aiming at a change in their stereotype way of thinking about/ behaviour towards migrant populations.In total, the project outcomes can nurture migrants' equity, social inclusion, help better address migrants' issues. The target group for this are ""recipient labour representatives "". Final beneficiaries are migrants (but also the society in general) with better social inclusion, higher numbers in labour market inclusion and lower social benefit needs.Doing this in the present partnership shall foster transferability of outputs to other countries in Europe: from south (e.g. ES, IT) being also major “entrance” points into the EU to central and north (e.g. NO, SE) as preferred destinations."

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