The aim of integration is naturally to have refugees participating in society, in the same way as everyone else. According to very recent international comparative research involving 31 countries, including European countries, USA and Canada (Migrant Integration Policy Index, MIPEX), Finland offers the fourth best possibilities for integration. The study focused mainly on evaluating the impact of national legislation and policy on working life, family reunification and discrimination...
The report presents the experiences and aspirations of refugee women. More than anything, the women wished for themselves and their families to be integrated successfully into Finnish society and able to contribute to their new country. Their suggestions for improvements were not made in a spirit of complaint, rather because they wish to enhance the asylum and integration experience of their communities and that of asylum-seekers and refugees to whom Finland has given a chance to start a new life...Read more
UNHCR: Dialogue with Refugee Women in Finland
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
