FRA Paper : 'Legal entry channels to the EU for persons in need of international protection: a toolbox'

In its recent paper ' Legal entry channels to the EU for persons in need of international protection: a toolbox' the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA) recommended the use of labour mobility schemes providing the right to work and travel to persons in need of international protection as a way to provide a safe and legal avenue towards the EU. 

We reproduce hereafter the part of the paper on labour mobility schemes: 

Labour mobility

A person seeking protection is often at the same time also a worker, a researcher, an artist, an athlete or an entrepreneur. However, living in a refugee camp or trying to flee from a conflict makes it more difficult to apply for labour or related mobility schemes, due to limited access to information and bureaucratic requirements that are difficult for applicants to fulfil. In light of their plans to return home as soon as possible, some refugees may primarily be looking for temporary migration opportunities. Provided the option for applying for asylum remains open, immigration schemes could be made more accessible for people in need of protection staying in a third country. For refugees, it is often difficult or impossible to meet the required criteria of such immigration schemes. One possibility for the legal entry of refugees is to strengthen labour mobility schemes focusing on groups of people in need of protection. Special programmes for legal labour migration set up with countries that experience forced displacement can in principle also benefit persons in need of protection.