Active employment policies in the current crisis and its application to immigrants as collective priority

Abstract

The very high unemployment figures define the pressing need to stress the active employment policies, mainly in the case of groups with special difficulties in integrating into the labor market. However, among the groups categorized as such in the Employment Act, and titled for the same as «burning question», are the immigrants whose primary treatment in active employment policies poses certain difficulties in its confrontation with immigration regulations, raises some misgivings in times of crisis and suggests serious doubts about its implementation.

This work aims to investigate the priority treatment for immigrants in active employment policies in times of crisis, starting with brief comments about the concept, classification and legal framework of active employment policies, in which it makes a special reference to the «anti-crisis» reforms, and wherein on the basis of decentralization of the competence discusses some of the most representative cases, to answer to the most evocative questions: which immigrants can be treated as a priority group of active employment policies?, are immigrants actually a collective priority in employment policies?, are the integration policies the true and unique active employment policies?