From Marseille to Île-de-France: IPERIA's role in deploying Lab Migration

Published on: 05/06/2023Updated on: 05/06/2023

On Tuesday, May 30, the official launch of Lab Migration for domestic work took place in Île-de-France in the presence of Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labor, Full Employment and Integration. After Marseille, where the project was launched in 2022, and the experiment has been carried out since last February, new candidates will begin their professionalization pathway this autumn in Île-de-France.

The stakes are high: taking action for an inclusive policy and meeting the needs of the domestic work sector. This is the whole ambition of Lab Migration: supporting foreign-born individuals through an integration pathway in the individual employment and domestic work sector. This personalized pathway is based on skills, the French language, and citizenship.

Born in Marseille, Lab Migration grows in Île-de-France

On May 30, Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labor, Full Employment and Integration, attended the launch event of Lab Migration, organized by FEPEM, at La Fabrique Marais in Île-de-France. After Marseilles, where the project was launched in 2022 and the experiment has been conducted since last February, new candidates will begin their professionalization pathway this autumn in Île-de-France.

The stakes are high: taking action for an inclusive policy and meeting the needs of the domestic work sector. This is the full ambition of Lab Migration: supporting foreign-born individuals through an integration pathway in the individual employment and domestic work sector. This personalized pathway is based on competencies, French language skills, and civic rights.

IPERIA closely supports Lab Migration candidates

Baptiste Lenfant, Managing Director of Groupe Domicile & Compétences, during his speech at the launch conference reminded attendees of IPERIA's role in this project: offering eligible participants a comprehensive pathway, ranging from guidance to employment follow-up and pathway security. "Taking into account people's personal and professional life journeys," the program helps foreign-born candidates prepare for one of the sector's three professional qualifications: "Childcare provider/childminder," "Dependency personal carer," or "Family assistant."

Baptiste Lenfant also discussed the personalized approach that characterizes Lab Migration and the dual civic track designed by the University of Home Care Services, our partner, to facilitate the working relationship between employees and their individual employers.

Lab Migration: initial results, future candidates

The launch conference provided an opportunity, through the screening of a short video, to review the journey of the first candidates in Marseille, whose support will end in mid-June. Women (exclusively) who have improved their French language skills, developed competencies adapted to different audiences (babies, children, elderly people, families, etc.), and, more generally, have become familiar with the family assistant profession.

Alongside them, attentive, caring, and highly committed trainers confirmed this experiment's decidedly individualized and human approach. Minister Olivier Dussopt emphasized: "Lab Migration is a very good example of successful integration. Home-based professions are among those that couldn't function if individual employers didn't hire non-EU foreign workers."

Lab Migration will soon reach other milestones: the end of the first four-month support pathway for Marseille candidates and the launch of other cohorts in this region.

In Île-de-France, support for the first candidates will begin this autumn. This experiment is certainly highly anticipated in the region that uses domestic work the most, with 639,942 individual employers, 251,258 employees, and 151,058 jobs to be filled by 2030*.

* Source : Observatory of Domestic Employment