Migrant Integration and the Role of Pre-departure Support Measures in Countries of Origin
A guest lecture by Alin Chindea
Chair: Martin Kahanec
Discussant: Rainer Münz
4:00:-4:05 Welcome
4:05-4:10 EU-EaP mobility policy challenges /Kahanec
4:10-4:50 IOM report/Chindea
4:50-5:05 Discussant/Münz and Graziosi
5:05 - 5:20 Discussion
While approaches to facilitating migrant integration vary by country and region, there is an increasing recognition that some groundwork for integration can be laid already in the countries of origin, before the departure of migrants. Various actors can offer assistance to migrants in the countries of origin prior to migration, by providing information about life in the new country, assisting in the development of language and vocational skills, initiating the process of recognition of qualifications and, in some cases, matching interested job-seekers with employers in the host country.
A report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reviews promising practices in pre-departure integration support for immigrants with a particular focus on promoting early labour market inclusion in line with the migrants’ level of qualifications and competences. The study also examines the services that assist migrants to find their way in a new country and become part of a new community, with a focus on practices relevant for integration of immigrants entering the countries of destination for the purposes of work, family reunification and studies, as implemented by a range of public and private actors. To achieve this, the analysis classifies these practices and approaches drawing on global evidence and with a focus on the European Neighbourhood countries, Western Balkans and Turkey. Based on the information collected, common denominators, factors of success or failure, the structure of such measures and their link with the post-arrival phase are analysed.
The report is produced as part of the project HEADSTART: Fostering Integration Before Departure, co-financed by the European Union Integration Fund, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands, and managed by IOM office in Budapest, in partnership with the World Association of Public Employment Services (WAPES) and authorities in charge of integration issues in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Slovakia.
Alin Chindea is a graduate of the Department of Public Policy (2006). Between 2006 and 2012, Alin was a Project Coordinator at IOM office in Hungary, working on issues of labour migration, migrant integration, and unaccompanied migrant children. He has served as a consultant for UNHCR on a project involving indicators of integration of beneficiaries of international protection. He is an author and co-author of several publications, including Refugee Integration and the Use of Indicators: Evidence from Central Europe, Overview of Guardianship Systems for Unaccompanied Minor Asylum‐seekers in Central Europe, and a series of Country Migration Profiles for the Black Sea Region, and Western Balkans. In addition to his CEU degree, Alin holds a bachelor degree in Political Science from the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
Dr. Rainer Münz is Head of Research & Knowledge Center at Erste Group and Head of the Board of Erste School of Banking and Finance. He is a non-resident Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC, and Migration Policy Institute Europe, Brussels, at the European think tank Bruegel, Brussels, and at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). He is an expert on population change, international migration and demographic aging, their economic impact and their implications for modern societies.
Until 1992 he was director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science. Between 1992 and 2003 he was head of the Department of Demography at Humboldt University, Berlin. He was visiting professor at several Austrian, German, Hungarian, Israeli, Swiss, and US universities: University of Bamberg (1986), University of California at Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1997-98), Frankfurt (1988), Jerusalem (Hebrew Univ. 2012), Klagenfurt (1996, 1998), Vienna (2001-02) and Zurich (1992). Münz currently teaches at the University of St. Gallen/Switzerland (since 2010) and at the CEU's School of Public Policy in Budapest (starting in 2015). He has worked as consultant for the European Commission, the OECD and the World Bank. He served as an advisor to several EU member states during their EU presidencies. In 2000-01 he was member of the German commission on immigration reform (Süssmuth commission). Between 2008 and 2010 he was Member of the high level “Reflection Group Horizon 2020-2030” of the European Union (so-called “EU Group of the Wise”).
Rainer Münz is member of several boards and advisory boards; among them: Centre for Migration, Integration and Citizenship at Oxford University (COMPAS, Oxford, UK), International Metropolis Project (Ottawa-Amsterdam), International Organization for Migration (IOM, Geneva).
Antonio Graziosi, Director of Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe at International Labour Organization, Budapest. A labour economist by training, Mr. Graziosi started his career as a researcher in economics. Between 1984 and 1986, he worked at the European Parliament in Brussels. Mr. Graziosi joined the ILO in 1986 and has worked for the Organization in Africa, in Latin America and in Europe, mainly on management of technical cooperation and capacity development. Between 2002 and 2004, he was Deputy Director of the ILO sub-regional office in Central America. From March 2004 to October 2007, he was the head of the ILO resource mobilization team at ILO headquarters in Geneva. From January to October 2007, he was also acting director of the Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (Cinterfor), based in Montevideo, Uruguay. From November 2007 to September 2013, he was Director of Training Programmes at the International Training Centre of the ILO, based in Turin, Italy. In October 2013, Mr. Graziosi was appointed Director of the ILO Decent Work Team and Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe, based in Budapest, Hungary.
Martin Kahanec is Associate Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Visiting Research Fellow, Deputy Program Director "Migration", the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Founder and Scientific Director of CELSI, Bratislava.
His main research interests are labor and population economics, ethnicity, migration, and reforms in Central Eastern European labor markets. Martin Kahanec has published in peer-reviewed academic journals, contributed chapters in collected volumes including the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OxfordUP) and the International Handbook on the Economics of Migration (Edward Elgar), and he has edited several scientific book volumes and journal special issues.
He is the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Manpower, and member of the Editorial Board of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research.
Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions and leading roles in a number of scientific and policy projects with the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, and other international and national institutions.
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