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oapen-20.500.12657-850722023-11-15T09:17:26Z Migration, Education and Employment Teräs, Marianne Osman, Ali Eliasson, Eva Competence of immigrants Democratic social party Discounting immigrants’ education Ethnic penalty European economy Evaluation of immigrants’ skills Female immigrants First and second generation immigrants Global migration and integration Highly-skilled immigrants Immigrants culture and values Social justice Socio-economic inequality Theory of cultural justice bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNK Organization & management of education This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration. There are different pathways for skilled migrants to vocations. Some start working in their previous vocations after arriving in the new environment. Some re-enter their professions but on a lower level. Some can re-train themselves in a new vocation, and some will go to further education, as studies in different chapters of this book suggest. Common for successful integration seems to be several intertwined factors: the target language competence, strong motivation and agency, supporting networks and supporting persons, as well as structural opportunities of the new environment. The book’s editorial board takes an eclectic view, hoping to start an academic debate about what ‘successful integration’ means. While discussions about the integration of migrants tend to focus on integration failures, there are millions of migrants, in different countries, who have successfully integrated into their new societies. 2023-11-13T16:42:15Z 2023-11-13T16:42:15Z 2024 book ONIX_20231113_9783031419195_26 9783031419195 9783031419171 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85072 eng Education, Equity, Economy application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-41919-5.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-41919-5 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-41919-5 10.1007/978-3-031-41919-5 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 012c2141-558e-44c0-9e86-9e2dc90da054 9783031419195 9783031419171 Springer International Publishing 10 203 Cham [...] open access
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This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration. There are different pathways for skilled migrants to vocations. Some start working in their previous vocations after arriving in the new environment. Some re-enter their professions but on a lower level. Some can re-train themselves in a new vocation, and some will go to further education, as studies in different chapters of this book suggest. Common for successful integration seems to be several intertwined factors: the target language competence, strong motivation and agency, supporting networks and supporting persons, as well as structural opportunities of the new environment. The book’s editorial board takes an eclectic view, hoping to start an academic debate about what ‘successful integration’ means. While discussions about the integration of migrants tend to focus on integration failures, there are millions of migrants, in different countries, who have successfully integrated into their new societies.
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