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In the light of technological developments, the EU integration processes and the globalization of the labour market, international migration in the Baltic Sea region is today more diverse, more rapidly changing and more challenging than ever before. The expert seminar Labour migration in the Baltic Sea countries: trends and prospects took a closer look at…
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The financial crisis has confronted the Baltic region with new challenges. The Baltic States have experienced negative economic growth rates, reductions in real wages and high unemployment rates. The countries in the Baltic Sea region are also facing a large common demographic challenge as a result of declining birth rates , ageing populations and increasing…
12 år sedan
When Iraqis migrate to Sweden, social networks are their primary information source. The duration of migrants’ residence permits and the sort of jobs the migrants get have important implications for their integration. These are some conclusions from The New Way In, a Migrant Perspective, based on interviews with 45 Iraqi migrants, carried out by Global…
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The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) has led to increased international cooperation on migration issues. The challenge for the Swedish chairmanship 2014 will be to turn the ideas generated by the forum into concrete actions on the ground. This according to Demetrios Papademetriou, President of the Migration Policy Institute, who next week participates…
