Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction: Integration in and through Education and Employment -- PART I THE SWEDISH CONTEXT -- 2. Migrants Successfully Accessing their Vocation in Sweden: The Significance of Labour Market Initiatives to Facilitate the Integration -- 3. Understanding Recognition of Prior Learning as a Tool for the Labour Market Integration of Skilled Migrants -- 4. Potential, Actuality or Vulnerability? The Importance of Recognition in Career Counselling for Newly Arrived Migrants -- 5. Important Encounters for Education and Employment -- 6. Education for Access to The Swedish Labour Market and Society: A Historical Comparison of Practices for the Integration of Immigrants in the 1960s and Early 2000s -- 7. Integration as a Conceptual Resource When Studying Skilled Migrants in the Workplace -- 8. Integration and the Art of Making a Society – The Case of Swedish Society -- PART II THE SWISS AND NORWEGIAN CONTEXTS -- 9. Successful Integration of Refugees in Vocational Education and Training: Experiences from a New Pre-Vocational Programme -- 10. 'Open Sesame': Skilled Immigrants' Experiences with Bridging Programmes in the Validation Process in Norway -- 11. Multicultural Perspectives in Driving Instructor Education and Driving Schools for Professional Drivers in Norway -- 12. Concluding Remarks.

The position of refugees at different levels in the labour market has become the subject of heated academic and political debate in Sweden as well as in other EU countries. The debate generally revolves around factors that affect the macro level structure such as employment of refugees and their descendants, economic costs and the benefits of migration and integration. The position of underrepresented groups in the labour market is explained as a consequence of either discrimination or lack of relevant social capital, language skills, job search strategies and job skills, to name a few. This paper has two parts. First, we introduce the project, Integration and inclusion of migrants in and through their vocation and work. Then we explore literature and identify factors that can promote or hinder skilled refugees' access to their original vocation in Sweden. The systematic review points to several factors as central, such as networks, language and knowledge of cultural practices.