scholarly journals Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Meier
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Expenditure Patterns

Thinking Outside of the Box: Exploring a Conceptual Synthesis for Research in the Area of Athletic Labor Migration

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Elliott ◽  
Joseph Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Highly Skilled

The global migrations of athletic workers have increased dramatically in magnitude, composition, and direction in recent years. Studies examining these migrations have, however, remained limited to specific areas and have restricted their vision to those workers employed in the athletic sector. Few studies have drawn on concepts derived from research tracing the migrations of workers in other areas: the highly skilled for example. This paper shows how an understanding of athletic labor migration could be extended by drawing on research from the area of highly skilled labor migration. The paper also proposes a potential framework for future research in this area.

scholarly journals Interethnic partnerships of Western Europeans: between preferences and opportunities

2008 ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Braun ◽  
Ettore Recchi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Migrant Groups

Previous studies on determinants of social integration of migrants in the destination countries, and of interethnic partnerships in particular, converge in attributing importance to the same set of variables. This study aims at providing a further test of the generality of findings across different contexts using survey data of intra-European adult migrants, a group which differs in many respects from the hitherto mainly analyzed migrant groups. High-skilled labor, study, retirement, and “quality of life” migration are well represented, while low-skilled labor migration which dominates traditional research in the field is of minor importance, yet still present.

International Migration within and from the East and Southeast Asian Region: A Review Essay

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Skeldon
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Contract Labor ◽  
Migration Systems ◽  
The U.S

Five migration systems are described: settler, student, contract labor, skilled labor, and refugee. Settler migration to the U.S., Canada and Australia has consisted primarily of family members; the future may bring a greater emphasis on highly skilled and business categories. Contract labor migration, particularly to the Middle East, has provided jobs, foreign currency through remittances and greater participation of women, but also led to illegal migration, skills drain, and labor abuses. The hierarchy of development has led to intra-regional flows: (1) skilled labor mainly from Japan to other countries in the region, and (2) contract labor and illegal migration from the LDCs to the NIEs and Japan.

scholarly journals Migration Infrastructure

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 122-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biao Xiang ◽  
Johan Lindquist
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Field Research ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Term Field

Based on the authors’ long-term field research on low-skilled labor migration from China and Indonesia, this article establishes that more than ever labor migration is intensively mediated. Migration infrastructure – the systematically interlinked technologies, institutions, and actors that facilitate and condition mobility – serves as a concept to unpack the process of mediation. Migration can be more clearly conceptualized through a focus on infrastructure rather than on state policies, the labor market, or migrant social networks alone. The article also points to a trend of “infrastructural involution,” in which the interplay between different dimensions of migration infrastructure make it self-perpetuating and self-serving, and impedes rather than enhances people's migratory capability. This explains why labor migration has become both more accessible and more cumbersome in many parts of Asia since the late 1990s. The notion of migration infrastructure calls for research that is less fixated on migration as behavior or migrants as the primary subject, and more concerned with broader societal transformations.

scholarly journals Beyond Nations and Nationalities: Discussing the Variety of Migrants’ Identifications in Russian Social Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Natalia D. Tregubova ◽  
Maxim L. Nee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Interaction Ritual ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
Country Specific

This article examines how transnational labor migrants to Russia from the five former Soviet Union countries – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – identify themselves in social media. The authors combine Rogers Brubaker's theory of identifications with Randall Collins' interaction ritual theory to study migrants' online interactions in the largest Russian social media (VK.com). They observed online interactions in 23 groups. The article illuminates how normative and policy contexts affect the Russian Federation's migration processes through a detailed discussion of migrants' everyday online interactions. Results reveal common and country-specific identifications of migrants in their online interactions. Migrants from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan employ identifications connected to diasporic connections. Migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in their identifications refer to low-skilled labor migration to Russia as a fact, a subject for assessment, and as a unifying category. For these countries, the present and the future of the nation is discussed in the framework of evaluation of mass immigration to Russia.

Economic Models of Migration of Skilled Labor and Preliminary Empirical Evidence

2013 ◽  
pp. 51-82
Author(s):  
Nada Zouag ◽  
Ahmed Driouchi ◽  
Cristina Boboc
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Positive Spillovers

This chapter introduces the major trends that have affected the perception of the migrations of skilled labor. Different models are introduced to capture the impacts of the decisions of skilled emigrants. The last and the more up to date models are the ones related to the new economics of skilled labor migration and its likely positive spillovers into education and research. Attempts to compare the best known models are also pursued in this chapter with preliminary empirical assessments based on some available data. The results attained confirm the promising role of these models of the new economics of skilled labor migration.

Economic Models of Migration of Skilled Labor and Preliminary Empirical Evidence

2016 ◽  
pp. 1687-1717
Author(s):  
Nada Zouag ◽  
Ahmed Driouchi ◽  
Cristina Boboc
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Positive Spillovers

This chapter introduces the major trends that have affected the perception of the migrations of skilled labor. Different models are introduced to capture the impacts of the decisions of skilled emigrants. The last and the more up to date models are the ones related to the new economics of skilled labor migration and its likely positive spillovers into education and research. Attempts to compare the best known models are also pursued in this chapter with preliminary empirical assessments based on some available data. The results attained confirm the promising role of these models of the new economics of skilled labor migration.

What Human Capital, Which Migrants? Returned Skilled Migration to Slovakia from the UK

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan M. Williams ◽  
Vladimir Baláž
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

This article contributes to the understanding of skilled labor migration by exploring some of the differences in the economic behavior of three contrasting groups of returned skilled labor migrants from Slovakia to the United Kingdom: professionals and managers; students; and au pairs. Formal professional experiences and training provide only limited understanding of the value of working/studying abroad. Instead, there is a need to look at particular competences, such as interpersonal skills and self-confidence, as well as the role of social recognition. The empirical results also emphasize the importance of spatiality and temporality when analyzing skilled labor migration.

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