Skilled migrant women and citizenship

2003 ◽  
pp. 261-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umut Erel
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Skilled Migrant

scholarly journals Skilled Migrant Women’s Experiences of the Job Search Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Lehtovaara ◽  
Marjut Jyrkinen
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Employment Level ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Job Application ◽  
Search Processes ◽  
Skilled Migrant

In this article, we address how skilled migrant women experience job search processes in Finland, and the expectations and emotions that arise from these workforce encounters, which we explore through unique qualitative data. Although Finland relies strongly on principles of equality and inclusion, highly educated migrant women face major difficulties in job application processes. The employment level of migrant women in Finland is low compared to other Nordic countries, and even though migrant women are more educated than migrant men and their Finnish language skills are better, they encounter many hurdles in employment. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation is getting more difficult for many women with non-Finnish background.There are multiple hurdles in highly educated women workers’ employment, which relate to structural and cultural aspects and which end up in discrimination in recruitment processes.

scholarly journals Highly Skilled Migrant Women: Achievements and Contributions in Knowledge-Based Economies

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Rosa Grimaldi ◽  
Francesca Crivellaro ◽  
Daniela Bolzani
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
Skilled Migrant

Competition among developed industrialised countries for highly skilled migrants has increased in recent decades with the onset of the knowledge-based economy and society (Triandafyllidou and Isaakyan 2014) [...]

Barriers and Resources for Highly-Skilled Migrant Women with a STEM Background in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 17951
Author(s):  
Daniela Bolzani ◽  
Rosa Grimaldi ◽  
Francesca Crivellaro
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Skilled Migrant

scholarly journals Perceived Employability of Highly Skilled Migrant Women in STEM: Insights from Labor Market Intermediaries’ Professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Aurora Ricci ◽  
Francesca Crivellaro ◽  
Daniela Bolzani
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Labor Market Intermediaries ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Skilled Migrant ◽  
Market Intermediaries

While global economies are in a tremendous need for talented workers that could fill vacancies in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, available evidence shows that highly skilled migrants with a background in these fields are not protected from brain waste and deskilling. In this paper, we add to the previous literature on the employability of highly skilled migrant women from the specific—and under-investigated—perspective of labor market intermediaries. We specifically investigate what the barriers and resources are for employability of highly skilled migrant women in STEM, as perceived by labor market intermediaries’ professionals; and what the training needs are that labor market intermediaries’ professionals perceive to effectively work with this target group. We use unique explorative survey data collected in 2018 in five countries (Greece, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom) from professionals working in diverse labor market intermediary organizations. We find that these professionals perceive the employability of migrant women in STEM as rather low, and strongly determined by migrant women’s psychological capital. Professionals in Southern Europe perceive structural barriers as more important than those in other countries. Professionals display training needs related to ad-hoc mentoring and networking competences for this specific target group. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.

scholarly journals Highly Skilled Migrant and Non-Migrant Women and Men: How Do Differences in Quality of Employment Arise?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Yvonne Riaño
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Life Course Analysis ◽  
Skilled Migrant

Research shows that highly skilled migrant women often have poor quality jobs or no employment. This paper addresses two research gaps. First, it provides a comparative perspective that examines differences and commonalities in the quality of employment of four highly skilled groups: migrant- and non-migrant women and men. Four statistical indicators are examined to grasp these differences: employment rates, income, adequacy of paid work, and employment status. The results highlight the role of gender and country of birth: Swiss-born men experience the best employment quality, and foreign-born women the worst. Second, it offers a family perspective to study how the employment trajectories of skilled migrant women develop in time and place in relation to their partners’. The qualitative life-course analysis indicates that skill advancement is more favourable for migrant and non-migrant men than for migrant and non-migrant women. However, skill advancement for migrant women depends greatly on the strategies enacted by domestic partners about how to divide paid employment and family work, and where to live. The statistical study draws on recent data from Swiss labour market surveys. The life-course analysis focuses on 77 biographical interviews with tertiary-educated individuals. Participatory Minga workshops are used to validate the study results.

scholarly journals Symbolic (Self-)Identifications of Care Workers in Diasporic Media: Romanian Migrant Women in Italy

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Irina Diana Mădroane
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Skilled Migrant

AbstractThe article looks at a corpus of personal stories told by Romanian migrant women who work as caregivers in Italy or by journalists, from the women’s perspective, in two Romanian diasporic publications. It aims to gain an insight into the ways the narrators use the diasporic media space to (re)situate themselves in relation to the home and host societies. A methodological framework that incorporates elements from narrative analysis and critical discourse analysis is applied for examining the (self-)construction of agency and social roles, the negotiation of belonging to social categories, and the positionings that emerge, including towards dominant worldviews and discourses on low-skilled migrant women. The findings indicate that the women narrators build their identities in a complex interplay of (dis-)empowering stances, using their experience of migration to attain agency and to contest, but also reaffirm, in a transnational context, traditional gender roles, occupational and class stigmas, and stereotypical perceptions of nationality.

“I’m Not Sure if That Was a Cultural Thing”: Stories from NESB Skilled Migrant Women in Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
pp. 14808
Author(s):  
Juliana Mutum ◽  
Melissa A. Parris ◽  
Uma Devi Jogulu
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Skilled Migrant
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