Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand A Biographical Perspective

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Subjects: Labour economics; Migration, immigration & emigration; Sociology: work & labour; Economic migration and settlement; Labour market integration; Labour market integration policies and practices; Micro sociology of integration; Migrant agency; Migrant biographies; Migrant kinship networks; Migrant support organisations; Migration and asylum trajectories; Migration and integration; Narrative biographic analysis in migration studies; Qualitative study of EU integration; Sensitive issues in migration research; Turning point analysis in migration research
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• ISBN: 978-3-031-14009-9; 9783031140099
• Access: Open Access

Through an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and migration/asylum trajectories. The book gives voice to the migrants and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market integration process, in the first years of immigration. It adopts a critical, qualitative perspective but does not remain ethnographic. The book rather refers the migrants' own voice and experience to their own expert knowledge of the policy and socio-economic context that is navigated. Each chapter brings into dialogue the migrant's intersubjective experiences with the relevant policies and practices, as well as with the relevant stakeholders, whether local government, national services, civil society or migrant organisations. The book concludes with relevant critical insights as to how labour market integration is lived on the ground and on what migrants 'do' with labour market policies rather than on what labour market policies 'do' to or for migrants.