Recommended paper: Supporting employees with a refugee background during onboarding
Finding a job is an important step, but what happens after recruitment also shapes whether people can use their competences, participate in workplace life and continue to develop. In their open-access paper Leading vulnerable workers without patronizing them: Lessons from onboarding employees with a refugee background, Renate Ortlieb, Lena Knappert and Elena Ressi examine how […]
Recommended paper: How migration experiences can build knowledge and competences
Migration experiences are often discussed in terms of the challenges people face when leaving their home country and starting again somewhere new. But these experiences can also involve learning, adaptation and the development of new knowledge and competences. A recent paper by Yecid Ortega and Rebecca Oxford, Immigrants’ and refugees’ ‘funds of knowledge(s)’ on the […]
In the Shadow. Women on the Move: Giving a Voice to Migrant Women
The journeys of migrant women are often told through numbers, statistics, or administrative categories. Yet behind each journey lie personal stories, experiences, choices, and realities that are often complex and invisible. In the Shadow. Women on the Move is a documentary co-directed by Marie Ruiz, Associate Professor of British Studies at the University of Picardie […]
How refugee women are transforming the labour market: From barriers to breakthroughs
By Stefania Tudorache | APIDI, Portugal Refugee women arrive in Europe with skills, ambition and resilience, yet often face a steep climb into stable work. Structural barriers such as limited recognition of qualifications, language gaps, childcare responsibilities and restricted access to finance, slow their integration into jobs and business ownership. European research shows these obstacles […]
Three Countries, Three Approaches, One Shared Mission: Empowering Migrant Women Across Europe
What happens when a ProfilPASS, a digital web app, and an innovative training programme come together with the determination of local organisations involved in accompanying the social integration of migrant women across Europe? You get more than project deliverables. You get transformation in motion. Over the past months, our EmpowerHer project has reached an exciting […]
The role of stakeholders in supporting migrant women’s onboarding
Migrant women bring valuable skills, experience, and perspectives to the workforce. When they enter employment in a new country, effective onboarding can help them quickly understand workplace expectations, build professional relationships, and apply their abilities with confidence. This process works best when different stakeholders collaborate to create clear and supportive pathways into employment. Starting a […]
Empowering refugee women to thrive in the workforce: A Pathway to Inclusion and Prosperity
By Stefania Tudorache | APIDI, Portugal Refugee women in Europe face a “double disadvantage” on the job market, combining the challenges of displacement with entrenched gender inequality. One study found that only 13% of recently arrived refugee women in Germany were employed in 2017, a striking gap compared to 74% of native German women. Overcoming […]
The idea behind EmpowerHer: Unlocking Europe’s potential through inclusive integration
By Katrin Echtermeyer | Wisamar, Germany In a time of rapid societal transformation, the call for more inclusive and resilient communities has never been louder. Across Europe, migrant women remain one of the most underrepresented yet promising groups in the labour market. EmpowerHer sets out to change that—not only through targeted skill-building but by creating […]