scholarly journals Skilled Migration, Knowledge Transfer and Development: The Case of the Highly Skilled Filipino Migrants in New Zealand and Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila V. Siar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Knowledge Transfers ◽  
Filipino Migrants

This paper provides evidence that highly skilled migrants continue to remain connected with and deeply committed to their home country. These connections challenge the notion of knowledge and skills loss from high-skilled migration. Highly skilled migrants are also involved in remittance giving, which, although of the noneconomic type, offers new possibilities for building wealth. These are the so-called ‘knowledge transfers’ which consist of the flows of knowledge, skills and ideas to the home country. This paper analyses these knowledge transfers through the highly skilled Filipino migrants in New Zealand and Australia.

Multidimensional, complex and contingent: Exploring international PhD students’ social mobility

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146879682096670
Author(s):  
Rituparna Roy ◽  
Shinya Uekusa ◽  
Jeevan Karki
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Multidimensional Complex ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

This paper is a collaborative autoethnography (CAE) by three international PhD students from Bangladesh, Japan and Nepal who pursued (or who are currently pursuing) their studies in New Zealand. In contrast to previous research which largely advanced a simplistic, downward social mobility experience of international PhD students or highly skilled migrants in general, we argue that this experience is dynamic, complex and multidimensional in nature. In doing so, we turn to Bourdieu’s theory of capital. By focusing on less-direct economic resources (e.g. ethnicity, nationality, language and social networks), we explore the multidimensionality and convolution of our social mobility which stems from migration. Setting aside a narrative of adversity and downward social mobility among international PhD students, this paper emphasizes how we actively negotiated and dealt with shifting class identity and social mobility in the host countries.

scholarly journals Exploring the trajectories of highly skilled migration law and policy in Japan and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Wakisaka ◽  
Paul James Cardwell
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Highly Skilled Migration ◽  
Successful Recruitment ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Law

AbstractJapan and the UK appear to have few commonalities in terms of their history of and approach to migration law and policy. However, strong similarities in their contemporary approaches can be detected. Migration sits at the very top of the national political agendas and both have undertaken successive, major policy reforms over the past decade. Both have governments publicly committed to policies to attract ‘highly skilled’ migrants, with a restrictive approach towards ‘unskilled’ migrants. This article draws out the similarities and differences of migration law and policy in Japan and the UK via their respective legislative structures and policy trajectories on highly skilled migration. The article argues that Japan and the UK promote a market-driven model which enables highly skilled migration to be ‘sold’ to publics believed to be hostile to increased migration. Yet, the rapid changes in policy and revising of applicable rules often prevents the successful recruitment of highly skilled migrants to both countries.

Highly skilled migration in the urban Arctic: a Norwegian case study on skilled migrant labour market integration

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trine Medby Fossland
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Highly Skilled Migration ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Highly Skilled

ABSTRACTArctic Norway is a region with a shortage of highly skilled professionals and international expertise, in many work sectors. Fast growing cites attract people from other regions and also high skilled migrants. It is a paradox that skilled migrants often fail to get qualified work in the local labour market. To understand this and to capture the complexity of labour market participation, this article draws on interviews with recruitment agencies and highly skilled migrants, attending a recruitment programme initiated by the ‘Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry in Norway’. This paper draws on recent literature on highly skilled migration and analyses the complex and relational sides of labour market integration for skilled migrants in an urban Arctic town.

scholarly journals Highly Skilled or Highly Wanted Migrants? Conceptualizations, Policy Designs and Implementations of High-skilled Migration Policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Metka Hercog ◽  
Laure Sandoz
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Definition Of

This special issue offers an opportunity to delve into the construction of migrant categories through policy design and policy implementation. It proposes to widen the focus beyond immigration authorities in order to include actors that are in one or another way involved in the process of selecting, supporting or employing highly skilled workers and therefore also contributing to their definition. The aim of the special issue is to bring to the surface the indistinct objectives of immigration policies, and to analyse the interplay between policies, discourses and practices. More precisely, we discuss the argument that the definition of highly skilled migrants depends more on how potential migrants are viewed by interest groups than on migrants’ characteristics.

The Dutch battle for highly skilled migrants: policy, implementation and the role of social networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isik Kulu-Glasgow ◽  
Djamila Schans ◽  
Monika Smit
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Developed Nations

In recent years a growing competition for talent has emerged among developed nations. Policymakers across North-America, Australia and Europe have implemented targeted migration programs to attract global talent in order to gain the net positive effects associated with skilled migration. Research so far has mainly focused on analyzing such programs in traditional destinations for highly skilled migrants such as the United States, Canada and Australia. In this article we take the Netherlands as a case study of the more recent European involvement in the ‘race for talent’. We first describe how ‘highly skilled’ migrants are categorized in the various skilled migration schemes that exist in the Netherlands. Secondly, by using primary data on highly-skilled migrants who participated in one of these schemes we look at whether the policy measures attracted the intended target group. We conclude that policy measures that favor highly skilled migrants by themselves are not enough to attract talent. Having social capital in the Netherlands as well as the recruiting efforts of Dutch employers are more important in attracting highly skilled migrants. Also, being highly skilled does not necessarily mean that access to the Dutch labor market is without obstacles.

Stimulating Flexible Citizenship: The Impact of Dutch and Indian Migration Policies on the Lives of Highly Skilled Indian Migrants in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Katherine Kirk ◽  
Ellen Bal
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Corporate Rights ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Migration Theories ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper explores the relationship between migration and integration policies in the Netherlands, diaspora policies in India, and the transnational practices of Indian highly skilled migrants to the Netherlands. We employ anthropological transnational migration theories (e.g., Ong 1999; Levitt and Jaworsky 2007) to frame the dynamic interaction between a sending and a receiving country on the lives of migrants. This paper makes a unique contribution to migration literature by exploring the policies of both sending and receiving country in relation to ethnographic data on migrants. The international battle for brains has motivated states like the Netherlands and India to design flexible migration and citizenship policies for socially and economically desirable migrants. Flexible citizenship policies in the Netherlands are primarily concerned with individual and corporate rights and privileges, whereas Indian diaspora policies have been established around the premise of national identity.

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