Legal Migration for Work and Training: Mobility Options to Europe for Those Not in Need of Protection

EU Member States are struggling to deliver on the European Union's call to expand channels for foreign workers as a way to meet labor market needs and potentially tackle spontaneous migration. And their focus has been more on attracting high-skilled workers, rather than filling the low- and mid...

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Published in:Policy File 2019
Main Authors: Beirens, Hanne, Le Coz, Camille, Hooper, Kate, Popp, Karoline, Schneider, Jan, Suss, Jeannette
Format: Report
Language:English
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Immigration
Migration Policy Institute
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Summary:EU Member States are struggling to deliver on the European Union's call to expand channels for foreign workers as a way to meet labor market needs and potentially tackle spontaneous migration. And their focus has been more on attracting high-skilled workers, rather than filling the low- and middle-skilled jobs that are increasingly open yet for which few channels to bring in third-country nationals exist. This report, which concludes a two-year research project conducted by the Research Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR) in cooperation with MPI Europe, provides an overview of mobility options open to low- and middle-skilled foreign workers, distilling findings from an analysis of policy in the European Union and case-study countries France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden.