The European Union (EU) is a political-economic union of 28 member nation states which while retaining their independence have agreed to operate according to common policies framed by the Union pertaining to trade, regional development, agriculture, security etc. These laws and policies aims to create a single integrated market and ensure free movement of people, goods, capital and services within the market. 26 of the member states of the EU have also agreed to create the Schengen Area by the Schengen Agreement of 1985, whereby these countries abolished all border control and passport system in order to function as a single country for travel and trade purposes. The countries which are not a part of this are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Romania,
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The most frequent reason cited for discrimination is that the immigrants have acquired their education and skills from very different contexts and often in different language. It is commonly observed that discrimination in case of immigrants is high during the hiring process and lower henceforth because the employer not having much idea about the productivity of the immigrant is more likely to depend on personal experiences with the immigrant employee to decide on his subsequent promotion or wage increase, however this may not always be the case. Discrimination against the immigrants becomes a serious hurdle in their path of integration into the host country’s society and is a violation of the fundamental human right of equal treatment enshrined- among others- in the Universal declaration of Human rights of 1948. Such labour market discrimination would results in not only a loss of opportunity for the migrants but will also for the economy and the employers in the host country, who may be deprived of skilled labourers. It will also have negative impacts such alienation of the immigrants, loss of their trust in host country’s institutions (such a police, courts) and lack of investment on part of the immigrants in education and training. The job related terms and conditions to social security as practiced in UK under ‘5 tier points system’ has lead to immigrant accepting jobs at a lower wages to be eligible for social security. Study by Johanna Schmeller the has shown that in Germany while skilled labourers from Eastern Europe, France and USA have fairly equal chances of employment as the Germans, the Asian and North African immigrants have the worst prospects of landing a job. Cases of immigrants anglicising their names to secure a job abounds, while those fleeing persecution often have to leave documents of their education and work experience behind leading to
The most frequent reason cited for discrimination is that the immigrants have acquired their education and skills from very different contexts and often in different language. It is commonly observed that discrimination in case of immigrants is high during the hiring process and lower henceforth because the employer not having much idea about the productivity of the immigrant is more likely to depend on personal experiences with the immigrant employee to decide on his subsequent promotion or wage increase, however this may not always be the case. Discrimination against the immigrants becomes a serious hurdle in their path of integration into the host country’s society and is a violation of the fundamental human right of equal treatment enshrined- among others- in the Universal declaration of Human rights of 1948. Such labour market discrimination would results in not only a loss of opportunity for the migrants but will also for the economy and the employers in the host country, who may be deprived of skilled labourers. It will also have negative impacts such alienation of the immigrants, loss of their trust in host country’s institutions (such a police, courts) and lack of investment on part of the immigrants in education and training. The job related terms and conditions to social security as practiced in UK under ‘5 tier points system’ has lead to immigrant accepting jobs at a lower wages to be eligible for social security. Study by Johanna Schmeller the has shown that in Germany while skilled labourers from Eastern Europe, France and USA have fairly equal chances of employment as the Germans, the Asian and North African immigrants have the worst prospects of landing a job. Cases of immigrants anglicising their names to secure a job abounds, while those fleeing persecution often have to leave documents of their education and work experience behind leading to