A webinar about underemployment and long-term integration challenges.
Many Nordic regions face labour shortages while highly skilled migrants already living there remain underemployed or overlooked. This webinar explores how regions can better use existing migrant skills, drawing on data, migrant perspectives and regional examples. Organised together with the Nordic Welfare Centre, it focuses the discussion on labour market inclusion, employers and untapped regional potential.
Programme
13:00 | Opening words |
| 13:05 | Presentation: Why attracting migrants is not enough, Debora Birgier, Nordregio What do we mean by highly skilled and what makes the Nordics a particularly interesting region to focus on? |
| 13:20 | Presentation: First findings on bottlenecks and enablers , Nora Sanchez-Gassen, Nordregio How do we study something so complex and what do migrants identify as barriers and factors that help? |
| 13:35 | Panel Discussion: What stands in the way? Do our first findings reflect reality? What is seemingly impossible to change? And which Nordic regions break the mold? Hear our panelists’ experiences and challenges facing the labour market head on. |
| 14:20 | Wrap up and closing words |
| 14:30 | End |
