Mobilities of the Highly Skilled Towards Switzerland : The Role of Intermediaries in Defining Wanted Immigrants. - Sandoz, Laure (Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019)
4.1.1 Headhunters: Finding the Right Person -- Negotiating a Candidate's Value -- Analysing Personality -- 4.1.2 Relocation Agents: Motivating People to Move -- Constructing Smooth Relocations and Status -- Retaining Valuable Employees by Taking Care of Their Families -- 4.1.3 Portrait: The Job Search Experiences of a Colombian Couple -- 4.2 Allocating Experts to Projects: The Case of Management Consultants -- 4.2.1 Constructing an Elite Status -- 4.2.2 Portrait: The Early Career of a Management Consultant -- 4.2.3 Recruiting Consultants -- 4.2.4 Providing Flexible Labour -- 4.2.5 Managing Mobility Infrastructures -- 4.2.6 The Mechanisms of Outsourcing -- 4.3 Mobility as the New Norm? -- References -- Chapter 5: Unequal Access to Support and Privileges -- 5.1 A Statistical Approach to Relocation Support -- 5.1.1 Important Variables -- Education -- Gender -- Nationality -- Professional Sector -- 5.1.2 The Preferences of Employers -- 5.1.3 The Mechanisms of Inequality -- 5.2 A Migration Channel Approach to Privileges -- 5.2.1 Channelling Privileges -- 5.2.2 The Family-Oriented Channel -- 5.2.3 The Company-Oriented Channel -- 5.2.4 The Study-Oriented Channel -- 5.2.5 The Protection-Oriented Channel -- 5.2.6 Portrait: The Struggles of an Eritrean Man Towards Family Reunification -- 5.3 Brain Gain or Body Shopping? -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- References.
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