EQUAL Tantetinte WG5 research: Best Practices

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EQUAL Tantetinte WG5 research Best
Practices

• SOCIAL and WORK INCLUSION of immigrants
• ---------the concept---------
• Social Theory
• Social Policies
• a Definition

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Social theory

• Old social analysis, central ideamigrant groups
  will have ASSIMILATED (acquiring values and
  ways of acting and thinking) so to NULLIFY
  differences
• no different opportunities and habits -gt
  cultural heterogeneity, identities remain
• only partial socio-cultural absorption

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Social theory (2)

• New concept INTEGRATION active participation
  without dissolving
• diversity acknowledged, no superior cultures
• subject migrant communities rather than
  individuals
• Etno-Integrationsymmetrical adaptation of
  structures

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Social theory (3)

• 3 levels of INTEGRATION
• political, broad sense shared citizenship,from
  national to cosmopolitan,universal basic
  rights and responsibilities
• cultural openness to different values
• social access to welfare societyequal
  opportunities, relations, work inclusion

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Social policy

• Co-existence ofcultural pluralism AND social
  disparities
• towards a realistic sustainable integration
• from theory to practice
• from equal to equivalent opportunities
• from integration to inclusion

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Social policy (2)

• emergency vs. long-term interventions
• poor integration policies for long-term
  immigrants
• weak work, house, social improvement(...
  equality in school, discrimination at work)

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Social policy (3)

• Two types of integration policy
• reception policies - for newcomers(orientation,
  services, work)
• emancipation policies - for long term and second
  generation immigrants (improvement of social
  position)

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a definition of Inclusion

• 1) Reception policies
• access to services
• training and work
• house
• education
• health
• social relations
• family
• networks (friends, neighbours, work)
• associations and groups

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a definition of Inclusion

• 2) Emancipation policies
• strenghtening of positions
• training and work
• house
• education
• health
• family
• networks (friends, neighbours, work)
• associations and groups
• narrowing the gap with indigenous people
• social mobility, active social roles

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Inclusion should...

• refer to a concept of Social Integration
• be tuned with parallel processes of integration
  (civic cultural)
• integrate values, knowledges and competences of
  national sub-groups
• welcome proposals and contributions from
  different parties (in particular involvment of
  migrants organizations in the drawing of
  inclusion policies)

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EQUAL Tantetinte WG5 research Best
Practices

• SOCIAL and WORK INCLUSION of immigrants
• ---------the product---------
• Methods
• Legislation
• comparison / evaluation

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RESEARCH - 1 - methods

• Analysis
• legislation
• inclusion projects from public and private
  organizations
• national and EU reports on inclusion
• evaluation reports of real inclusion practices
• Comparison
• reception and emancipation policies
• work inclusion, indicators and good practices
• social inclusion, indicators and good practices
• classification of immigrants newcomers,
  irregulars, short-period residents, long-period
  residents, second generation

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RESEARCH - 2 - legislation

• Legislative orientations
• EU
• Member States

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RESEARCH - 3 - comparison

• Evaluation of work inclusion practices in Italy,
  France, Germany
• labour market
• professional training
• access to work irregular work
• public sector, access
• work progress
• syndicalization
• immigrants entrepreneurship

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RESEARCH - 4 - comparison

• Evaluation of social inclusion practices in
  Italy, France, Germany
• house, access and residential segregation
• access to social and sanitary services
• access to education
• family protection
• promotion of extra-family relations
• horizontal social mobility
• vertical social mobility
• second generations

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RESEARCH - 5 - comparison

• Integration of ethnical minorities in Romania and
  Bulgaria
• Management of migration flows in Albania and
  Morocco
• contrast to clandestine migration
• facilitation of readmission
• agreements with European Commission
• bi-lateral agreements