Nowadays labor migration level is growing exceptionally fast and influences states’ migration policies significantly. Finland has prioritized labor migration encouragement as facilitating high-qualified labor migrant’s inflow will bias the country's economy, industry, and demography favorably.
Finnish migration policy places a particular emphasis on integration aspects as it aims to attract and retain labor migrants in the country. In order to achieve needed labor migration increase, the Talent Boost program was developed. The aim of the program is to establish conditions under which international specialists, graduated international students and qualified labor migrants would like to work and stay in Finland.
While performing the program, integration phase has a particular significance to retain specialists in Finland and to make Finnish labor market more competitive on the global market. In this regard, Finnish municipalities create various integration projects aimed to tailor municipal’s specific circumstances and facilitate international specialists’ integration and to elaborate the most efficient national-wide integration policy.
The article explores Finnish integration policy aims and methods and particular emphasis puts on the examination of the Talent Boost program and instruments it uses.