TY - BOOK AU - Isaakyan,Irina AU - Baglioni,Simone AU - Baglioni,Simone AU - Isaakyan,Irina AU - Triandafyllidou,Anna AU - Triandafyllidou,Anna TI - Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand: A Biographical Perspective T2 - IMISCOE Research Series SN - 978-3-031-14009-9 PY - 2023/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature KW - Labour economics KW - bicssc KW - Migration, immigration & emigration KW - Sociology: work & labour KW - Economic migration and settlement KW - Labour market integration KW - Labour market integration policies and practices KW - Micro sociology of integration KW - Migrant agency KW - Migrant biographies KW - Migrant kinship networks KW - Migrant support organisations KW - Migration and asylum trajectories KW - Migration and integration KW - Narrative biographic analysis in migration studies KW - Qualitative study of EU integration KW - Sensitive issues in migration research KW - Turning point analysis in migration research N1 - Open Access N2 - Through an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and migration/asylum trajectories. The book gives voice to the migrants and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market integration process, in the first years of immigration. It adopts a critical, qualitative perspective but does not remain ethnographic. The book rather refers the migrants' own voice and experience to their own expert knowledge of the policy and socio-economic context that is navigated. Each chapter brings into dialogue the migrant's intersubjective experiences with the relevant policies and practices, as well as with the relevant stakeholders, whether local government, national services, civil society or migrant organisations. The book concludes with relevant critical insights as to how labour market integration is lived on the ground and on what migrants 'do' with labour market policies rather than on what labour market policies 'do' to or for migrants UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/bdcddf3d-6ee4-4a64-aa8c-e2163b598cc0/978-3-031-14009-9.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60161 ER -