Title: Immigrant integration in the labour market THE SRI LANKA PROJECT
1Immigrant integration in the labour marketTHE
SRI LANKA PROJECT
- Workers mobility an experience in Tuscany
2The background immigrants in the Italian labour
market
- Illegal immigrants working as family assistants
Problem Presence is highly fragmented in the
territory
Resource Increasing requests for family
assistants
3The background immigrants in the Italian labour
market
- Overcoming problems and exploiting resources
The Italian Government and Regione Toscana worked
out a programme
- to promote and improve the synergies between all
authorities
GOALS
- to organize the human resource represented by
family assistants coming from extra EU countries
4The actors
- Italian Government
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- Sri Lanka Government
Intentions Agreement
Project development
- NGO experienced in international cooperation
- Regione Toscana (employment and social units)
- Provinces of Florence, Pistoia, Prato and Siena
(territories)
- Families (for whom immigrants work)
- School of italian language ( language learning
fundamental in family assistants training)
- Training agencies (tutorship and organization of
vocational training)
5The Project step 1
In Italy
Vocational guidance
- Regione Toscana and Provinces
- - Information and selection of families
- Organization of specific trainings for workers
- Covering travel costs
- Giving a contribution to families
Selection (by Regione Toscana and NGO)
- Welfare Ministry (local officies)
- bureaucratic work to provide a visa to the
workers
People to take part in the 1 training step
6The Project step 2
- Families ranking completed
- 57 workers arrived in Italy from Sri Lanka
Reception and Tutorship
to help workers with their inclusion in the
families.
7The Project step 2
Family assistants
Help to family inclusion (tutor)
Support network to answer workers labour
requirements
Improvement of linguistic and vocational
competencies
8Evaluation
Positive evaluation of the outcomes of the Project
- 85.5 of Sri Lankans still in Italy
- 71 still working as family assistants
High percentage due to the support network
organised by Regione Toscana and Provinces
9SWOT
Strengths
Weaknesses
- Synergistic work among all organisations
- Support network to help workers and to prevent
loss of human and labour resources
- Cultural and linguistic differences
- Peculiarity of people involved (assisted),
difficulty in accepting a foreign assistant
- Opportunities
- To curb illegal immigration
- To offer qualified workers to local employers
- Threats
- Workers exiting the project prior to its
conclusion