The Belgium government has presented a plan to integrate asylum seekers into the labor market by training them in the fields of catering and hotel management. This helps migrants to learn a trade while their asylum application is being processed and also fills a labor shortage.
Portugal and Morocco signed an agreement on Wednesday, highlighting legal minutiae for Moroccans to come to live and work in the EU member state. The deal is part of ongoing efforts to fight illegal migration and human trafficking on both sides.
The Italian organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) has denounced that living conditions of migrant farm workers in Gioia Tauro, located in the southern region of Calabria, remain critically precarious.
The Italian labor policies agency and the UNHCR have signed an agreement to engage in activities to foster greater inclusion of refugees in the national labor market.
In the French city of Rennes, a group of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are training to work in restaurants. Most of them have never even held a kitchen knife before they started this program, but they are full of motivation about the opportunity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.