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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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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
About the author
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.
Summary
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 geogr
