FEMIPOL – Integration of Female Immigrants in Labour Market and Society

The Lisbon Strategy of the EC (March 2000) acknowledges that the integration of migrants in cultural and social life serves to enhance the potential of European society for competitiveness, sustainable economic growth and greater social cohesion. In the Communication to the Council (2003) the EC lists, alongside young migrants, migrant women as a group that should be taken into account in formulating integration policies.

The FeMiPol project responds to these challenges by exploring and analysing the impact of integration policies on the position of migrant women within EU countries as a basis for the development of recommendations for appropriate integration policies. A central assumption is that integration policies should attend to the agency of the persons involved.

Therefore, the analysis of integration processes focuses not only on barriers for social integration and on their removal, but also on the strategies and life plans of the female migrants. On the basis of an agency sensitive biographical evaluation of policy, the project will formulate recommendations for better policies, both on the national and EU level, aimed at the integration of female migrants.

Link: http://www.femipol.uni-frankfurt.de/