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Title: Immigrant integration in the labour market THE SRI LANKA PROJECT


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Immigrant integration in the labour marketTHE
SRI LANKA PROJECT
  • Workers mobility an experience in Tuscany

2
The 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
3
The background immigrants in the Italian labour
market
  • Overcoming problems and exploiting resources

The Italian Government and Regione Toscana worked
out a programme
  • stable employment
  • to promote and improve the synergies between all
    authorities

GOALS
  • to organize the human resource represented by
    family assistants coming from extra EU countries

4
The actors
  • Italian Government
  • 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)

5
The Project step 1
  • In Sri Lanka

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
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The 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.
7
The Project step 2
Family assistants
Help to family inclusion (tutor)
Support network to answer workers labour
requirements
Improvement of linguistic and vocational
competencies
8
Evaluation
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
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SWOT
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
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