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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

reflects on how to engage employers, immigrant communities and trade unions in
the development of these practices. This report also reflects on how to assure the
quality and accountability of the guidance activities provided, as well as on
strategies to achieve sustainability and diffusion of the best practices.
Managers at national and local levels, as well as promoters of guidance
activities will find relevant the discussion on how to set up services which
respond to migrants’ needs, initiative and contexts, using the full potential offered
by their communities. They will also find important debates concerning the
appropriate skills, knowledge and attitudes of practitioners, helping achieve
greater relevance and quality of provision. The study also reflects on strategies
for greater sustainability of practices, from a promoter perspective.
Practitioners will find relevant the reflections on which attitudes, knowledge
and skills to develop to provide quality guidance for immigrants, as well as on
ways to engage the immigrant community to achieve more effective results.
Practices debated include the use of advocacy, networking and use of role
models.
To debate these themes, the report is organised as follows:
(a) Chapter 1 describes the context, objective and scope of the research;
(b) Chapter 2 describes the methodology used, making a short theoretical
review, followed by a value-added perspective of guidance processes for
immigrants;
(c) Chapter 3 discusses the demographic and social-economic background of
immigration flows, characterising the main immigrant groups, their
destinations, and their education and labour market outcomes;
(d) Chapter 4 discusses the present EU integration framework for immigrants,
as well as national tendencies concerning the role of guidance labour market
integration policies in recent years;
(e) Chapter 5 presents the case studies developed to support the discussion of
guidance practices;
(f) Chapter 6 identifies key challenges and opportunities for guidance in
integrating immigrants;
(g) Chapter 7 discusses the lessons learned and lays down a set of principles
for good practice in immigrant integration;
(h) Chapter 8 defines priority action areas for policy-making.

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