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Highly-Skilled Migration : IMISCOE Short Reader.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weinar, Agnieszka.
Other Authors: Klekowski von Koppenfels, Amanda.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility
  • Contents
  • List of Boxes
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Statement of Objectives
  • 1.2 Organisation of the Book
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Highly Skilled Migration: Concept and Definitions
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Highly-Skilled Migrants as Workers
  • 2.2.1 Data-Driven Research on Highly-Skilled
  • 2.2.2 The Notion of "Skill"
  • 2.2.3 Migrant, Expatriate or Mobile Professional?
  • 2.3 Contested Categories
  • 2.3.1 International Students
  • 2.3.2 Spouses - Trailing or Not
  • 2.3.3 Refugees - Reluctant Non-workers
  • 2.4 Geography and Skills
  • 2.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3: The State and the Highly Skilled Immigrant
  • 3.1 State Policies and Highly Skilled Migration
  • 3.1.1 Why Countries Develop Highly Skilled Migration Policies
  • 3.1.1.1 Immigration Policies for Highly Skilled
  • 3.1.1.2 Policies Targeting Brain Drain and Brain Gain
  • 3.2 Measuring Policy Effects: Many Faces of Success and Failure
  • 3.2.1 Labour Market and Professional Life: Two-Level Approach
  • 3.2.1.1 Macro-level Challenges
  • 3.2.1.2 Meso-level Challenges
  • 3.2.1.3 Facing Soft Barriers in Return Migration
  • 3.2.2 From Segregation to Integration? Expatriates and Immigrants
  • 3.2.2.1 Highly Skilled Immigrants: Importance of a Place
  • 3.2.2.2 From "Trailing Spouses" to Highly Skilled Migrants: Gender Dimension of Integration
  • 3.3 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Highly-Skilled Migrants in the Transatlantic Space: Between Settlement and Mobility
  • 4.1 Transatlantic Migration System - A Case Study
  • 4.2 Emerging Patterns of Mobility: The Case of Transatlantic Migrations in Twenty-First Century
  • 4.3 Drivers of the Contemporary Mobility in the Transatlantic Context
  • 4.3.1 Open Border Migrants
  • 4.3.2 Semi-open Borders Migrants
  • 4.3.3 Selected Temporary Migrants.
  • 4.3.4 Closed Borders
  • 4.4 Highly Skilled as Agents in Their Own Lives - A Northerners' Story
  • 4.5 Brain Flows in the Transatlantic Context
  • 4.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Conclusions
  • 5.1 Definitions
  • 5.2 Integration of the Highly Skilled
  • 5.3 Mobility Patterns
  • 5.4 Direction of Further Research
  • References.

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