Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand

238 Pages·2022·3.722 MB·English

by  Irina Isaakyan, Anna Triandafyllido, Simone Baglioni

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Irina Isaakyan
Anna Triandafyllidou
Simone Baglioni Editors
Immigrant and Asylum
Seekers Labour Market
Integration upon
Arrival: NowHereLand
A Biographical Perspective
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Irina Isaakyan Anna Triandafyllidou
Simone Baglioni
Editors
Immigrant and Asylum
Seekers Labour Market
Integration upon Arrival:
NowHereLand
A Biographical Perspective
Editors
IrinaIsaakyan AnnaTriandafyllidou
CERCMigration FacultyofArts,DepartmentofSociology
TorontoMetropolitanUniversity TorontoMetropolitanUniversity
(FormerlyRyersonUniversity) (FormerlyRyersonUniversity)
Toronto,ON,Canada Toronto,ON,Canada
SimoneBaglioni
DepartmentofEconomics
andManagement
UniversityofParma
Parma,Italy
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Contents
1 LabourMarketIntegrationasanInteractiveProcess. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
AnnaTriandafyllidou,IrinaIsaakyan,andSimoneBaglioni
2 FemaleMigrants’ExperiencesofLabourMarket‘Integration’
inDenmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
MichellePaceandKatrineSofieBruunBennetzen
3 ExaminingNon-EUMigrantsandRefugees’Agency
WhenNavigatingtheBritishLabourMarkets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
FrancescaCaloandSimoneBaglioni
4 SwitzerlandandtheTwoFacesofIntegration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
MariaM.Mexi
5 Precarity,Opportunity,andAdaptation:Recently
ArrivedImmigrantandRefugeeExperiencesNavigating
theCanadianLabourMarket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
ClaireEllisandAnnaTriandafyllidou
6 Italy:ThePromisedLand?JourneysofMigrants,Refugees
andAsylumSeekersTowardsLabourMarketIntegration. . . . . . . . 129
MattiaCollini
7 ResistanceIsUseless!(AndSoAreResilience
andReworking):MigrantsintheFinnishLabourMarket. . . . . . . . 161
QuivineNdomoandNathanLillie
8 MigrationtotheCzechRepublic:PersonalStories
AboutRunningfromandRunningTowards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
OlgaGheorghievandDinoNumerato
9 ALongJourneyofIntegration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
IrinaIsaakyan,AnnaTriandafyllidou,andSimoneBaglioni
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About the Editors
IrinaIsaakyan isaSeniorResearchAssociateatTorontoMetropolitanUniversity.
BeforecomingtoTorontoMet,shewasworkingintheEuropeanUniversityInstitute
in Florence, Italy. Prior to that, she was teaching English, Cultural Studies and
Narrative Biographic Methods in Russian Universities. Holding PhD from the
University of Edinburgh, UK, she was also engaged in post-doctoral research and
teaching there on the topics of migrant identities and qualitative research methods.
Forseveralyears,shehasbeenalsoAssociateEditorintheJournalofImmigrantand
RefugeeStudiesandtheManagingEditoroftheIMISCOEResearchSeries.Irinais
a qualitative and interpretive sociologist whose research connects to high-skill and
elite migrations, gender and identity, diaspora and post-communist studies – and
challenges traditional understandings of integration and agency. She has publica-
tions on post-communist space and identities, diaspora nationalism and high-skill
migrationinjournalssuchasSymbolicInteraction,InternationalMigrationReview,
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. She is
publishingabookontheglobalelitemigrationofoperasingers.
Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration
andIntegration,atTorontoMetropolitanUniversity(formerlyRyersonUniversity).
PriortojoiningTorontoMetinAugust2019,sheheldaRobertSchumanChairatthe
Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies,
European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She is the Editor of the Journal of
ImmigrantandRefugeeStudies.HerrecentauthoredbooksincludeWhatisEurope
(with R. Gropas, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2022); and Rethinking Migration and
ReturninSoutheasternEurope(withE.Gemi,Routledge,2021).Sherecentlyedited
a volume on Migration and Pandemics (2022, Springer.) Her recent journal publi-
cations have appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2022),
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Society (2022), Ethnicities (2022)
International Migration (2021) and Nations and Nationalism (2020). For more
information please see: https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/People/anna-
triandafyllidou/andwww.annatriandafyllidou.com
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viii AbouttheEditors
SimoneBaglioni holdsaChairinSociologyintheDepartmentofEconomicsand
Management at the University of Parma, Italy. Previously, he was Professor of
PoliticsintheYunusCentreforSocialBusinessandHealthatGlasgowCaledonian
University,UK,andhasheldacademicpositionsattheUniversitiesofGenevaand
Neuchatel in Switzerland, and Florence and Milan-Bocconi, in Italy. Professor
Baglioni’sresearchinterestsincludelabourmigration,asylum,changesinthelabour
market(unemploymentandprecarity),civicengagementandcivilsociety.Heactsas
an expert and evaluator for the EU, the ESRC UK, and the Belgian National
Research Council. He was the Principal investigator and the coordinator of the
SIRIUS H2020 project, and currently is the PI for the UK case of the MATILDE
H2020 project, both focusing on migration issues.He has been a principal investi-
gatoralsointheEUHorizon2020projectsTRANSSOL(“TransnationalSolidarity
attheTimeofCrisis”)andFAB-MOVE(“ForaBetterTomorrow:SocialEnterprise
ontheMove”).Hispublicationsinclude11books,numerousarticlesandchapters.
Among the recent books Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in
EuropeanLabourMarkets.AComparativeApproachonLegalBarriersandEnablers
(co-edited with V. Federico) published in 2021 in the IMISCOE Research Series,
andSocialPolicyandSocialInnovation(co-authoredwithStephenSinclair,Policy
Press,2018).
Acknowledgements
This book has developed from the interpretive biographic interviews conducted in
January–September 2021 as part of the Horizon 2020 project “SIRIUS: Skills and
Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour
Markets” https://www.sirius-project.eu/. The project itself was implemented in
2018–2020 with the overall purpose to explore labour market integration of
migrants,refugeesandasylumseekersintheEU.Groundedinamulti-dimensional
framework, SIRIUS aimed to study politically institutional, societal and individual
conditions that function as enablers or barriers for labour market integration in
different European countries. Our objectives were: to provide systematic evidence
onpost-2014migrants’entrancetoandpotential foremploymentatdestination; to
explorevarioussocio-economiccontextsaroundtheirlabourmarketintegration;to
advance existing integration theories; and to provide policy recommendations to
MemberStatesandotherEuropeancountriesonimprovingtheirprogrammesonand
servicesforlabourmarketintegration.Toachievethis,weusedthemixedmethod,
combiningstatisticalanalysisofmacro-economicfactorswithqualitativeanalysesof
meso-level data from focus groups, ethnographic observations and organizational
casestudies,andmicro-leveldatafrombiographicinterviews.
Thedatapresentedinthisbookwerecollectedandanalysedduringthefinalyear
oftheproject.Wewouldliketothankallourinformants,whohavegivenusin-depth
biographicinterviewsandhereingenerouslycontributedtoourresearch.Wearealso
verygratefultotheanonymousreviewersfortheirinsightfulcomments,whichhave
helpedustoreviseandfinalizethisbook.Weespeciallyacknowledgetheroleofthe
European Commission, which funded our overall project through the European
Union’sHorizon2020ResearchProgramme[GrantAgreement770515(SIRIUS)].
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List of Figures
Fig.1.1 Epiphanictriangle........................................................ 18
Fig.2.1 NumberofAsylumApplicants.(Source:DanmarksStatistik)....... 31
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