AMIGA Active MIGrAnts on the Labor Market – a German-Polish Cooperation
The project was co-funded by the German and Polish European Social Fund (ESF), nr POKL.07.02.01-30-092/12
Duration:
1.06.2013 – 31.05.2015
Coordinator in Poland:
Karolina Sydow
Project team:
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Natalia Bloch, Izabella Main
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Patricia Krolik
Streetworkers:
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Izabela Czerniejewska
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Agata Kochaniewicz
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Agata Pakieła
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Robert Rydzewski
Coordinator in Germany:
Magdalena Ziółek-Skrzypczak
(the Department of Labor and Economic Development in the City of Munich)
Strategic partner:
City of Poznań
Project goals
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Increase social and professional integration of migrants by facilitating their labor force participation
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Provide better access to information on services and opportunities in the host country
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Establish long-term collaboration between and among different institutions assisting migrants
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Promote migrants’ contribution to the host society
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Exchange best practices with other EU countries
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Develop support strategies for migrants in the local labor market with focus on three target groups:
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migrant entrepreneurs
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foreign university graduates and students
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unemployed migrants
Project goals in Poznań:
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Bridge migration and integration research and practice,
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Discover untapped potentials in the context of global skill shortages,
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Ensure migrants’ access to information about living and working conditions in Poland and in Poznań,
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Raise the awareness about migration among local residents
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Provide recommendations how to support migrants’ potentials, taking the experience of the “old” EU member States into account and comparing them with the situation in Poland and Poznań.
Publications
♦ K.Sydow, U.Schulz, M.Ziółek-Skrzypczak (ed.) Strategies to support migrants in the labor market. Experience with the AMIGA project in the context of old and new migration cities in the EU, Munich 2015.[pdf]
♦ N. Bloch, I. Main, K. Sydow (red.), Nie dość użyteczni. Zmagania imigrantów na lokalnym rynku pracy (Not Useful Enough. The Struggle of Immigrants in the Local Labor Market), Poznań: Centrum Badań Migracyjnych UAM 2015. [link]
