CERC Public Seminar: 'Integrating Refugees in to Employment - Some experience from Europe'

Tuesday 6 March, 1:00-2:00pm
at Room 212, Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, The University of Melbourne

presented by

Richard Pearson

(Visiting Professor, Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex; and Research Director, Employability Forum)

This seminar co-hosted with

Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements and,

the Monash University Acercentre for the Economics of Education and Training

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Abstract

Refugees are an important but distinctive part of the inward migration in to developed countries. Refugees are not ‘voluntary’ migrants and usually need help integrating in to what is often a very different culture and work environment. The background of refuges is extremely diverse in terms of their ability to speak the ‘new’ language, adjust to a new culture, and their work skills, while many have backgrounds involving trauma and other types of disadvantage. This presentation will focus on some of the approaches adopted by the UK and selected other European governments in seeking their integration in to employment.

Biography

Richard has over has over 30 years research and consultancy experience relating to the labour market and international mobility. He has worked for the EC, OECD, government departments and major corporations. He was Director of the independent Institute for Employment Studies (IES), the UK’s leading independent centre for employment research and consultancy form 1992-2004 and is now an independent consultant. He is also Research Director at the Employability Forum, which supports and monitors the integration of refugees in to employment; a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex, and at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester, and also a member of the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) which sets the salaries of senior public sector figures and parliament in the UK. He has published widely and spoken at numerous conferences and corporate events, and for 10 years he wrote a monthly column for Nature, the international scientific journal.