Work Package 3

Currently, we are working on Work Package 3 which aims to identify and assess policy factors facilitating or hindering the access and integration of post-2014 migrants, including asylum seekers and refugees into the labour market, by examining specific policy discourses and public policies in each of the countries studied and their variations, thus grasping the macro-level dimension of the subject qualitatively and intensively.

Researchers are undertaking a review of the policy discourses on the inflow of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers and their connection with labour market integration issues. Partners are investigating how policy-makers and more generally policy actors perceive and frame issues of integration so as to appraise the consistency between actual policy responses and policy rhetoric. The position of the EU as a relevant actor in the public domain will be assessed in each country under study in the project.

Moreover a systematic identification and categorization of policies, measures and interventions that are intended to facilitate labour market access for migrants, refugees asylum seekers has been conducted in all SIRIUS countries. Their ‘strengths and weaknesses’ have been assessed through interviews with policy makers, policy implementers, migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Comparative and national reports will be available at the end of March 2019