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

1. Front Matter

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2. Europe’s Legal Peripheries: Migration, Asylum and the European Labour Market

   • Veronica Federico, Simone Baglioni

   Pages 1-18Open Access

3. Between Numbers and Political Drivers: What Matters in Policy-Making

   • Nicola Maggini

   Pages 19-48Open Access

4. Tightening Asylum and Migration Law and Narrowing the Access to European Countries: A Comparative Discussion

   • Paola Pannia

   Pages 49-71Open Access

5. Migrant Integration and the Role of the EU

   • Ruby Gropas

   Pages 73-93Open Access

6. “Enchanted with Europe”: Family Migration and European Law on Labour-Market Integration

   • Irina Isaakyan, Anna Triandafyllidou

   Pages 95-113Open Access

7. Governing Through Rituals: Regulatory Ritualism in Czech Migration and Integration Policy

   • Karel Čada, Karina Hoření

   Pages 115-134Open Access

8. Accessing the Danish Labour Market: On the Coexistence of Legal Barriers and Enabling Factors

   • Liv Bjerre, Michelle Pace, Somdeep Sen

   Pages 135-148Open Access

9. Legal Issues Affecting Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Finland

   • Ilona Bontenbal, Nathan Lillie

   Pages 149-171Open Access

10. Between Reception, Legal Stay and Integration in a Changing Migration Landscape in Greece

    • Christos Bagavos, Nikos Kourachanis, Konstantina Lagoudakou, Katerina Xatzigiannakou

    Pages 173-192Open Access

11. The Labour Market Needs Them, But We Don’t Want Them to Stay for Good: The Conundrum of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in Italy

    • William Chiaromonte, Veronica Federico

    Pages 193-212Open Access

12. ‘Fortress’ Switzerland? Challenges to Integrating Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

    • Maria M. Mexi, Paula Moreno Russi, Eva Fernández Guzman

    Pages 213-233Open Access

13. Regulating Fortress Britain: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in the British Labour Market

    • Francesca Calò, Simone Baglioni, Tom Montgomery, Olga Biosca

    Pages 235-258Open Access

This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees and asylum seekers into their labour markets. The analysis builds on the understanding of socio-cultural, institutional and legal factors as “barriers” or “enablers”; elements that may facilitate or obstruct the integration processes. The book examines the two dimensions of integration being access to the labour market (which, translated into a rights language means the right to work) with its corollaries (recognition of qualifications, vocational training, etc.), and non-discriminatory working conditions (which, translated into a rights language means right to both formal and substantial equality) and its corollaries of benefits and duties deriving from joining the labour market. It thereby offers a novel approach to labour market integration and migration/asylum issues given its focus on legal aspects, which includes most recent policy changes and legal decisions (including litigation cases). The robust, evidence-based and comparative research illustrated in the book provides academics and students, but also practitioners and policy makers, with up to date knowledge that will likely impact positively on policy changes needed to better address integration conundrums.

• Open access
• European labour markets
• Fundamental rights protection
• Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland Greece, Italy, Switzerland, UK
• EU laws and policies
• Migrants, refugees and asylum applicants (MRAAs)
• Labour market integration of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers
• migration and integration
• labour conditions
• socio-cultural labour environment
• Labor market

• Department of Legal Sciences, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

  Veronica Federico

• Department of Economics and Management, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

  Simone Baglioni

Veronica Federico is Associate Professor in Public Comparative Law with the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Florence, Italy. Professor Federico obtained her PhD in 2005 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. Her research interests include migration studies and fundamental rights; African comparative law; democratic transitions; French constitutional Law and politics; and citizenship. 

Simone Baglioni is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Parma, Italy. He has held academic positions at several European universities (Milan Bocconi, Florence, Geneva, Glasgow Caledonian, and Neuchatel). Professor Baglioni research interests focus on labour migration, youth employment, precarious work, civil society and collective action. He is the coordinator and PI of the Horizon 2020 SIRIUS project (Skills and integration of migrants, refugees and asylum applicants in European countries).