Ny rapport om arbetsmarknadsintegration för nyanlända invandrare

Nu har äntligen min rapport för Migration Policy Institute kommit. No Quick Fix: Policies to Support Labor Market Integration of New Arrivals in Sweden handlar om vad Sverige gjort för att förbättra arbetsmarknadsintegrationen för nyanlända invandrare. Så här beskriver MPI rapporten:

Despite the Swedish economy’s relatively robust recovery from the economic turbulence of recent years, immigrants have persistently high unemployment rates and are concentrated in low-skilled work. To improve its long-term prospects, Sweden faces the challenge of better facilitating new arrivals’ labor market integration, particularly for humanitarian migrants and their families.

Concerns about newcomers’ economic prospects have prompted the government to invest heavily in labor market integration, experiment with new approaches to language instruction and training for immigrants, and reorganize its flagship introduction program for new arrivals. The strategies, while innovative and often thoughtfully designed, have been slow in delivering change, and large gaps in employment rates persist between native and foreign-born workers.

This report describes how Sweden is trying to overcome labor market integration challenges and analyzes how successful its workforce development and integration policies have been in helping immigrants progress from unskilled or low-skilled work to middle-skilled jobs. It first discusses the structural conditions of the labor market and how these affect labor market integration, then analyzes policies to support labor market integration (employment services, skills recognition services, language training, and vocational training), and concludes by offering some recommendations.

Rapporten kan laddas ner här.

Lästips

Forskning som berör Sverige

Carina Mood, Lagging behind in good times: immigrants and the increased dependence on social assistance in Sweden, International Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 20, Number 1, January 2011 , pp. 55-65(11)

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 37 Issue 2 2011. Hela detta numret handlar om invandrares och flyktingars situation i de skandinaviska välfärdsstaterna.

Journal of Refugee Studies Volume 23 Issue 4 December 2010, Special Issue: Critical Reflections on Refugee Integration: Lessons from International Perspectives. Alla artiklar går att ladda ner gratis. Innehåller bland annat Marko Valenta och Nihad Bunar, State Assisted Integration: Refugee Integration Policies in Scandinavian Welfare States: the Swedish and Norwegian Experience.

Större rapporter från internationella organisationer

International Organization for Migration: World Migration Report 2010 - The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change

The Forum Fall 2010 Issue: Migration. Fall Issue of The Forum, featuring experts from around the world discussing economic, regional, and general issues surrounding Migration.

Världsbanken, Migration and remittances factbook 2011: second edition.

Övrigt

MPI, The Top Ten Migration Issues of 2010.

Statistics Netherlands, More migration marriages in 2009.