CORE Platform Annual Report 2017-2018

Working Roma
This project was funded by the European Union
– JUST/2014/RDIS/AG/DISC – and aimed at
providing new tools, based on the exchange of
best practices, to prevent intolerance in the
labour market towards migrants.
The majority of working age migrants and foreigners in Central and Southern Europe do not
have a job and many have been out of work for a considerable length of time.
The high levels of unemployment of working migrant people are most often perceived as a
problem of scarce supply-side in the labour market, due to low levels of education and
professional qualifications of migrants and foreigners. However, there is another dimension,
less spoken and recognised, that is discrimination.
Discrimination significantly aggravates the situation and causes systemic exclusion from
employment for a large number of the migrant and foreign communities.
For this particular project, CORE Platform partnered with Paragon Europe and embarked on
a mission to overcome this discriminatory environment in Malta and within the Maltese
business community.
In May and June 2017, the first workshops on the issue were held at the premises of the
Foundation for Human Resources Development in Sliema and Paragon Europe in Mosta
respectively, with a number of
entrepreneurs, employers, as well as the
migrants and foreigners themselves
actively participating in the debates.
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