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