working in europe

• European Union

The European Commission has created a page to self assess which immigration category different workers fit into, providing access to key information on residency and immigration requirements. Here's an overview.

• Italy

The National Chamber of Italian Fashion (CNMI) on June 20 presented its project "Fashion Deserves the World," thanks to which 15 young refugees and migrants who want to have a career in fashion will be able to study and find work in Italian companies.

• Italy
• Senegal

Two Senegalese fishermen, who have been working legally in Italy for some time on board a fishing boat in Lampedusa, watch surprised as thousands of other migrants file past them in the hope of a better life in Europe.

• Germany

A study from the Institute for Employment Research in Germany has found that female refugees face more obstacles to joining the job market than their male counterparts.

• Italy

A study by the Italian chambers of commerce associations Unioncamere and Infocamere has found that one out of every ten enterprises is led by immigrants.

• Germany
• Namibia

Iyaloo Akuunda is a qualified nurse. She was born in Namibia but she couldn't find work there, so she decided to apply for a job in Germany. Through a recruitment agency and a lot of study, she landed a job in Düsseldorf. DW followed her journey from Namibia to Germany.

• Germany
• Senegal
• Syria

2020 has been a difficult year for many people the world over. A global health pandemic, economic problems and even more people displaced than before were just some of the challenges we all faced. But to try and spread a bit of cheer as the year comes to a close, InfoMigrants decided to look back at some of the migrant success stories we reported on in 2020 in the world of work.

• Italy

The Constitutional Affairs Committee in the Italian Lower House of Parliament has approved a Democratic Party (PD) amendment to the security decree that would abolish the Italian quota system limiting the number of foreigners who can regularly enter the country for work.

• Italy

Three associations in Italy have called on authorities to hire foreign doctors and nurses with regular Italian work permits. The associations argued it's illegitimate to exclude foreign doctors from civil service exams during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Egypt
• Germany
• Syria

When people think of a German restaurant, they usually think of potatoes, schnitzel and sauerkraut. But thanks to the arrival of more than one million migrants and refugees since 2015, Germany's culinary landscape has transformed notably.

• Italy

Unions and migrant rights organizations in northeastern Italy have presented a handbook to explain the "world of work" in a clear and simple manner to both migrants and Italians who struggle with written Italian. The book is available in five languages.

• Albania
• Bangladesh
• India

A total of 80,366 applications for migrant regularization in Italy have been submitted in the first month of the scheme, which began on June 1 as part of post-COVID-19 relaunch measures. The vast majority of the cases have already been processed. However, the Italian interior ministry said the number of applications is continually growing.