Rethinking International Skilled Migration (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Riemsdijk, Micheline van; Wang, Qingfang

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In today's global knowledge economy, competition for the best and brightest workers has intensified. Highly skilled workers are an asset to companies, knowledge institutions, cities, and regions as they contribute to knowledge creation, innovation, and economic growth and development. Skilled migrants cross, and many times straddle, international borders to pursue professional opportunities. These spatial relocations provide opportunities and challenges for migrants and the cities and regions they inhabit.

How have international skilled migratory flows been formed, sustained, and transformed over multiple spaces and scales? How have these processes affected cities and regions? And how have multiple stakeholders responded to these processes? The contributors to this book bring together perspectives from economic, social, urban, and population geography in order to address these questions from a myriad of angles. Empirical case studies from different regions illuminate the multiscaled processes of international skilled migration. In particular, the contributions rethink skilled migration theories and provide insights into: the experiences of highly skilled labor migrants and international students; issues related to transnational activities and return migration; and policy implications for both immigrant source and destination countries. It also charts a future research agenda for international skilled migration research.

Rethinking International Skilled Migration provides a comparative perspective on the experiences of skilled migrants across the local, regional, national, and/or global scale, paying particular attention to spatial and place-based dimensions of international skilled migration. It will be of interest to scholars and professionals in international migration, regional and national development policymakers, international businesses, and NGOs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317420767
• Artikelnr.: 46757572

Autorenporträt

Micheline van Riemsdijk is J. Harrison and Robbie C. Livingston Associate Professor of Population Geography at the University of Tennessee, USA. Qingfang Wang is an Associate Professor of Geography and Public Policy at the University of California Riverside, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Rethinking International Skilled Migration: A Placed-based
and Spatial Perspective
MICHELINE VAN RIEMSDIJK AND QINGFANG WANG
PART I
International Student Migration
2 Producing International Student Migration: An Exploration of the Role of
Marketization in Shaping International Study Opportunities
ALLAN FINDLAY, RUSSELL KING, AND ALEXANDRA STAM
3 Complex Decisions: Factors Determining International Students' Migrations
HEIKE ALBERTS
4 European Mobile Students, (Trans)National Social Networks, and
(Inter)National Career Perspectives
CHRISTOF VAN MOL
5 Mental Health and the Student-migrant Experience: Sources of Stress for
Norwegian Quota Scheme Students
SCOTT BASFORD
6 Chinese Student Migrants in Transition: A Pathway from International
Students to Skilled Migrants
WAN YU
7 Internationalization, Localization, and the Eduscape of Higher Education
in the Global South: The Case of South Africa
ASHLEY GUNTER AND PARVATI RAGHURAM
PART II
Transforming Cities, Transforming Lives
8 "London is a Much More Interesting Place than Paris": Place-comparison
and the Moral Geographies of Highly Skilled Migrants
JON MULHOLLAND AND LOUISE RYAN
9 High-skilled Migrants, Place Ties, and Urban Policymaking: Putting
Housing on the Agenda
JÖRG PLÖGER
10 Homogenizing the City: Place Marketing to Attract Skilled Migrants to
Stavanger and Kongsberg
MICHELINE VAN RIEMSDIJK
11 Expatriate Mobility, Firm Recruitment, and Local Context: Skilled
International Migration to the Rapidly Globalizing City of Dubai
MICHAEL C. EWERS AND RYAN DICCE
PART III
Transnational Lives and Return Migration
12 Exodus, Circulation, and Return: Movements of High-skilled Migrants from
India in a Transnational Era
ELIZABETH CHACKO
13 Immigration Policy Change and the Transnational Shaping of Place
MARGARET WALTON-ROBERTS
14 Experiences of Returned Chinese Migrants in Higher Education Examined
through a Case Study
QINGFANG WANG, LI TANG, AND HUIPING LI
15 Diverging Experiences of Work and Social Networks Abroad: Highly Skilled
British Migrants in Singapore, Vancouver, and Boston
WILLIAM S. HARVEY AND JONATHAN V. BEAVERSTOCK
16 Conclusion: Themes, Gaps, and Opportunities for Rethinking International
Skilled Migration
HARALD BAUDER
Index