Policy and experiences of professional integrationof young immigrants in the Walloon region (Belgium)

Altay A. Manço ()
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Altay A. Manço: IRFAM and University of Liege, Belgium.

Migration Letters, 2004, vol. 1, issue 1, 11-25

Abstract: This paper aims to identify obstacles to integration of young foreigners in the Walloon region and more generally in Belgium as a whole while presenting in a critical manner the actions undertaken by the local and/or regional actors and the public policies aimed at overcoming these obstacles. Since the 1960s, North Africans, Turkish and Sub-Saharan immigrants and their families have constituted the major component of non-European inflows into Belgium. It has been proved that youths of immigrant descent, in the absence of positive parental role models, often experience difficulties in breaking into the work arena. In order to go beyond local pilot initiatives and the experimental phase, the Walloon Region has set up integration policy measures for foreigners in the framework of the Centres régionaux d'intégration (CRI) , created under the Decree of 4th July 1996. The action of professional social integration handled by the CRI gives an impression of vagueness in the accomplishment of its role: frontline or rearguard, socioprofessional or general integration, local or "trans-regional work".

Keywords: immigrant integration; Belgium; Walloon; youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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