Through an inter-subjective lens this open access book investigates the initial labour market
integration experiences of these migrants refugees or asylum seekers who are characterised by
different biographies and migration asylum trajectories. The book gives voice to the migrants
and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market
integration process in the first years of immigration. It adopts a critical qualitative
perspective but does not remain ethnographic. The book rather refers the migrants' own voice
and experience to their own expert knowledge of the policy and socio-economic context that is
navigated. Each chapter brings into dialogue the migrant's intersubjective experiences with the
relevant policies and practices as well as with the relevant stakeholders whether local
government national services civil society or migrant organisations. The book concludes with
relevant critical insights as to how labour market integration islived on the ground and on
what migrants 'do' with labour market policies rather than on what labour market policies 'do'
to or for migrants.
