Local employment centers to support migrants’ socio- economic integration in the primary sector
A multi-stakeholder effort for migrant workers’ effective integration into employment and the local community
GA number: 101140836
Funded by: AMIF Duration: 01/05/2024 – 30/04/2027
Challenge
A 2018 European Commission study on skills and labour market needs in the primary sector highlighted that migrant workers often lack the necessary language skills, professional qualifications, and recognition of prior learning to fully participate in the labour market. Limited proficiency of the spoken language makes them struggle to understand instructions, communicate with co-workers and supervisors, and access essential services.
These workers endure poor working conditions, low wages, and job insecurity. Limited access to support services, particularly in rural areas that lack the infrastructure to meet their needs—including language training, skills development, and access to information about job opportunities—intensifies these issues.
Furthermore, weak cooperation among key stakeholders, along with migrants’ challenging working and living conditions, hinders trade unions and labor inspectors from locating them and providing necessary protection.
Innovation
Primacenters aims to promote multi-stakeholder efforts to facilitate the effective socio-economic integration of migrant workers, both women and men, into the primary sector. By fostering cooperation, the initiative focuses on developing and piloting tailored services and mechanisms to enhance skills recognition, provide targeted support, and ensure the protection of their rights and well-being.
Action
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or AMIF. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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