Project ‘Strategic document on the integration policy for foreigners granted asylum’ (4 April 2016 to 30 September 2016) under the National Programme of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund for 2014-2020

Abstract

The purpose of the strategic document on the integration policy for foreigners granted asylum (‘FGAs’) (‘the Document’) is to set the goals, objectives and integration areas of the FGA integration policy in Lithuania, to define the principles and instruments for implementing the integration policy and to establish FGA integration (policy) indicators and evaluation criteria in accordance with the provision that the refugee integration policy is an integral (component) part of the immigration, asylum and foreigner integration policy and a cornerstone of the asylum policy making it possible to employ the existing economic and social asylum (policy and process) capacity. Given the links between the asylum policy and refugee integration processes, the Document associates those processes through specific integration indicators, e.g. the legal status, labour market participation, vulnerability, equal opportunities, naturalisation, etc.