T his article presents empiric research on respondents’ self-identification of ethnicityin such culturally homogenous country as Lithuania and comparisons among three occupational sectors: education, healthcare and business. T he results reveal the difficulty when attempting to self-identity ethnicity resulting in high nonresponse rate. Furthermore, results indicate effects of occupational background of the respondent and influence of EU membership on the perceived ethnicity. T he contextualisation of results within social and historical context of the country is outlined, as well as methodological implications.

This article examines the complex interactions of policy and media discourses and public attitudes as contextual factors which contribute to the creation of a social-cultural environment for the integration of refugees. It applies comparative integration context, system justification and sanctioned theories and identifies the discursive practices and implications for maintaining the existing socio-political system of the host country. Critical discourse analysis of policy, media, semi-structured and focus groups interviews of experts, refugees, and policy actors reveal the normative assumptions about integration policies which provide the prospects for interpretation about the creation of both distances and opportunities for interaction between the host society and refugees.

Trafficking in human beings is not a contemporary social phenomenon as its history reaches the ancient times. Recently it has become especially important because of the increasing scope of migration influenced by economic crisis in Europe and worldwide. The article investigates the phenomenon of human trafficking focusing on the social policy measures in victims of human trafficking (re-)integration into the labour market process. The research is based on the analysis of the situation in three EU member states – Austria, Finland and Lithuania, focusing on the role of NGOs and their activities in provision of social assistance for the victims of human trafficking in integration into the labour market process.