University of Lapland
The university of Lapland is a northern most university in Finland with four faculties and more than 5500 students. There are 647 members of staff. University of Lapland has always been an impulse for regional Arctic development, Arctic interdisciplinary research and resilience of Arctic people in the changing Arctic is the focus that supports practice by giving public access to the knowledge acquired through research using the competences of the University of Lapland. Faculty of Education offers teacher training along with many other pioneering programs.
There are different other research groups who are following a number of strategic goals:
- interdisciplinary research programme
- Norther well-being, education and work
- training for teachers and external partners;
- Culture based service design
- Communities and changing work
- Minority law and research
- Northern anthropology
The Uarctic thematic network on Arctic Migration has strong background to research on migration and refugee issues. The University of Lapland is one of the national partners of SIRIUS-network is working for the integration of immigrant youth and children in the changing Arctic. The University of Lapland represented in the major social and economic network organizations in the Arctic region and has an important role in the social regional development. The Arctic Centre belongs to the university is a research institute is well known for its research profile also has been focusing on highly skilled immigrant and their socio-economic integration in the region.
The Arctic Centre of University of Lapland has a research group on Arctic Migration are working nationally and internationally for the socio-economic integration of immigrants. The interest of this research group includes how as to understanding global migration governance in regional level, the challenges of migration governance to establish a greater coherence across the arctic region. Special attention has been given to comprehensive governance strategies for accelerating economic integration of immigrants along with highly-skilled immigrants, since good governance reinforces economic integration that underpin the relative resilience of emerging economy in the global north. The research indeed focuses on third-country nationals (non-EU citizens) with a foreign diploma want
to work in the EU. Which also causes unemployment and underemployment. It promotes arbitrary assessments and indirect discrimination among employers. Many researches also argued that immigrants lack language skills, non-recognition of their credentials are the main reason of unemployment and underemployment that also be the reason of unsuccessful integration. Non-EU citizens strive for an inclusive society; therefore, non-European degrees need to validate within a short period after arriving is an important thematic area need further focus.
Other relevant projects:
FOLO- Foreign lounge (2015-2018) where specific actions focused on education and skills of
immigrant that they have acquired from their country of origin. FOLO also determined to integrate highly skilled immigrant based on their degrees, but which is clearly came into account in the FOLO report that it is very hard to get job for those immigrants who has non-EU higher degrees from their country of origin. Thus, it is potentially important to focus on those non-Eu citizens to have their diploma recognized.
Step2Job is aiming to promote the employment of high-level Lappish immigrants in the open labour market by recognizing and developing their skills. The project will develop a new model for the identification and development of immigrant skills, which will map out the skills gaps and employment challenges of the immigrant, in cooperation with the working life. The project identifies different ways of skills recognitions; Their Finnish language skills and professional vocabulary management are evolving. The project will ended this year and the report of this project will utilized in this project.
Key persons:
Nafisa Yeasmin holds a PhD in international relations and coordinates the research group “Arctic Migration”. She is also leading the Uarctic Thematic Network on Arctic Migration. She is the national coordinator of the SIRIUS network brings together key stakeholders in migration and education from around Europe, including policy makers, researchers, practitioners and representatives of migrant communities. (SIRIUS, 2019). Her research interest focuses on newfound problems and challenges along the side of the already existing ones of Arctic migration. Cultural differences, acceptance of foreign citizens within local
communities, integration into local communities and labour market are some of the issues, which need cooperation in order to contribute to innovative solutions.
There are different other research groups who are following a number of strategic goals:
- interdisciplinary research programme
- Norther well-being, education and work
- training for teachers and external partners;
- Culture based service design
- Communities and changing work
- Minority law and research
- Northern anthropology
The Uarctic thematic network on Arctic Migration has strong background to research on migration and refugee issues. The University of Lapland is one of the national partners of SIRIUS-network is working for the integration of immigrant youth and children in the changing Arctic. The University of Lapland represented in the major social and economic network organizations in the Arctic region and has an important role in the social regional development. The Arctic Centre belongs to the university is a research institute is well known for its research profile also has been focusing on highly skilled immigrant and their socio-economic integration in the region.
The Arctic Centre of University of Lapland has a research group on Arctic Migration are working nationally and internationally for the socio-economic integration of immigrants. The interest of this research group includes how as to understanding global migration governance in regional level, the challenges of migration governance to establish a greater coherence across the arctic region. Special attention has been given to comprehensive governance strategies for accelerating economic integration of immigrants along with highly-skilled immigrants, since good governance reinforces economic integration that underpin the relative resilience of emerging economy in the global north. The research indeed focuses on third-country nationals (non-EU citizens) with a foreign diploma want
to work in the EU. Which also causes unemployment and underemployment. It promotes arbitrary assessments and indirect discrimination among employers. Many researches also argued that immigrants lack language skills, non-recognition of their credentials are the main reason of unemployment and underemployment that also be the reason of unsuccessful integration. Non-EU citizens strive for an inclusive society; therefore, non-European degrees need to validate within a short period after arriving is an important thematic area need further focus.
Other relevant projects:
FOLO- Foreign lounge (2015-2018) where specific actions focused on education and skills of
immigrant that they have acquired from their country of origin. FOLO also determined to integrate highly skilled immigrant based on their degrees, but which is clearly came into account in the FOLO report that it is very hard to get job for those immigrants who has non-EU higher degrees from their country of origin. Thus, it is potentially important to focus on those non-Eu citizens to have their diploma recognized.
Step2Job is aiming to promote the employment of high-level Lappish immigrants in the open labour market by recognizing and developing their skills. The project will develop a new model for the identification and development of immigrant skills, which will map out the skills gaps and employment challenges of the immigrant, in cooperation with the working life. The project identifies different ways of skills recognitions; Their Finnish language skills and professional vocabulary management are evolving. The project will ended this year and the report of this project will utilized in this project.
Key persons:
Nafisa Yeasmin holds a PhD in international relations and coordinates the research group “Arctic Migration”. She is also leading the Uarctic Thematic Network on Arctic Migration. She is the national coordinator of the SIRIUS network brings together key stakeholders in migration and education from around Europe, including policy makers, researchers, practitioners and representatives of migrant communities. (SIRIUS, 2019). Her research interest focuses on newfound problems and challenges along the side of the already existing ones of Arctic migration. Cultural differences, acceptance of foreign citizens within local
communities, integration into local communities and labour market are some of the issues, which need cooperation in order to contribute to innovative solutions.
