The new project enhance labour opportunities for women in the Nordic countries
30.11.2017
The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland is taking part to the new two-year project (2017–2018) which object is to enhance better and suitable employment for immigrant women. The project will produce practical approaches that employers and companies can implement and identify possibilities for networking between immigrant women, local public and private actors and employers.
The aim of the project is to identify policies and practices that have
been aimed for improved labour market integration for immigrant women in
three small and medium-sized cities in Finland, Iceland and Sweden.
Also, the researchers are identifying and analyzing success factors and
challenges in those policies and practices, based on the experiences by
actors in charge of the labor market program/support, as well as on
experiences by women who have taken part in them.
The study is
hosted by the new UArctic thematic network on migration and funded by
the Nordic Gender Institute (NIKK). The project is coordinated by the
University of Akureyri and it is conducted in collaboration with the
Arctic Centre and Nordregio. At the Arctic Centre the study is led by
the professor Timo Koivurova and executed by PhD Candidate Nafisa
Yeasmin.
More information:
PhD Candidate Nafisa Yeasmin
Leader of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Migration
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
+358 40 484 4256, nafisa.yeasmin(at)ulapland.fi