In many EU countries, migrant women face double disadvantage in the labor market: as migrants and as women. Women perceived as Muslim or African face particular difficulties due to discrimination in access to the labor market. Women with a low educational level and women with a non-Western migration background work less often and are less often economically independent than both migrant men and local women.
Adult educators working with migrants will benefit from enhancing their competencies to support migrant women and to understand special challenges and needs of migrant women. Migrant women need support in their integration in the labour market. Encouragement of migrant women entrepreneurship skills is one of the overlooked ways to support their economic integration into the host society, but most integration efforts are mostly focused on language skills and education.
