Current best practices

AuthorMatthias Mahlmann
Pages90-92
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10 CURRENT BEST PRACTICES
Relevant best practices include the following:
There are many initiatives for the integration of migrants that offer support in various
spheres of life, tailored to the needs of migrants with the aim of fostering equal
standing and non-discrimination in society from after-school tuition to sport.453 It
is notable that in April 2019, employment agencies or job centres provided guidance
to 189 000 refugees, while a total of about 373 000 refugees were registered as
underemployed.454 Furthermore, in January 2019, 84 000 refugees were supported
by labour market policy measures, an increase of 4 % from 2018.455 The state
provides numerous funding opportunities for companies hiring refugees, ranging from
language courses to integration grants. R ecognised refugees can directly enter the
labour market. Asylum seekers and persons with provisional residence status are not
allowed to work for the first three months of legal residence in Germany. Thereafter,
there is limited access to the labour market. As a rule, asylum seekers can also begin
vocational training after three months and tho se with provisional residence status
can begin such training from the first day of t he confirmation of their statu s. The
training must lead to a recogni sed pr ofessional qualification. There are numerous
programmes to support companies offering such training.456
fair@school initiative of the Anti-Discrimination Agency
A significant joint initiative between the Anti-Discrimination Agency and the
publishing house Cornelsen in 2019 has been the fair@school (Schools against
Discrimination) competition,457 which was successfully launched in 2017. The aim is
to support and promote engagement at school and the award-winning projects are
intended to provide examples of how schools can work for diversity. The competition
is open to everyone working at a general or voc ational school in Germany, including
school administrators, teachers, and ( school) social pedagogues, who are publicly
campaigning against discrimination at their school and initiatin g relevant projects.
Grants for project funding for measures to combat discrimination
On January 8 2019, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women
and Youth issued the guidelines according to which the Federal Office of
Administration (Bundesverwaltungsamt) (BVA) will distribute project funding for
measures combatting discrimination (with effect from January 2019 until December
2022).458
The Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency created a series of videos of people engaged
in the fight against discrimination. Th e vid eos have been circulated on Facebook,
Instagram and YouTube.459
453 Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge) (BAMF),
https://www.bamf.de/DE/Themen/Integration/AkteureEhrenamtlicheInteressierte/EhrenamtlichesEngageme
nt/Integrationsprojekte/integrationsprojekte-node.html.
454 Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit: Statistik/Arbeitsmarktberichterstattung) (2019),
Berichte: Arbeitsmarkt kompakt Fluchtmigration Nürnberg, available in German at:
https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Statistikdaten/Detail/201904/fluchtmigration/fluchtmigration/fluchtmigra
tion-d-0-201904-pdf.pdf.
455 Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit: Statistik/Arbeitsmarktberichterstattung) (2019),
Berichte: Arbeitsmarkt kompakt Fluchtmigration Nürnberg, available in German at:
https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Statistikdaten/Detail/201904/fluchtmigration/fluchtmigration/fluchtmigra
tion-d-0-201904-pdf.pdf.
456 See https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/fluechtlinge-in-arbeitsmarkt-integrieren-448994.
457 For more information in German, see: www.fair-at-school.de.
458 See, in German,
http://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Dokumente_ohne_anzeige_in_Publikat
ionen/Foerderaufruf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2.
459 See www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/Aktuelles/DE/2019/20191011_Videoreihe_machen.html.

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