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Fair Skilled Mobility: A Manifesto book cover

1st Edition

Fair Skilled Mobility A Manifesto

Edited By Izabela Grabowska, Mary Boatemaa Setrana Copyright 2026
248 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book sets out a new approach to the global flow of skilled migration, one based on ethical, fair, balanced and sustainable frameworks. Instead of focusing on human capital loss and ‘brain drain’, the book argues that we should look towards mutually beneficial outcomes. In a world where demographic shifts, rapid technological advancements connected to automation and AI-enhancement, and... Read more

Introduction
IZABELA GRABOWSKA AND MARY BOATEMAA SETRANA

PART I. Migration skill corridors, skill mobility and talent partnerships and ethical recruitment


1 Migration Skill Corridors
GODFRIED ENGBERSEN AND JULIA REINOLD


2 Skills Mobility Partnerships: Addressing global skills shortages more fairly?
CAITLIN KATSIAFICAS AND SABETH KESSLER


3 Pursuing an ethical labour migration process in transnational recruitment
COLLEEN BOLAND, TESSELTJE DE LANGE, KSENIJA IVANOVIĆ, AND ERICA SCHIMMEL


PART II. Empirical pathways of skill mobility: Case studies across continents


4 Reciprocal skill exchange mechanisms as a strategy to mitigate skill flow and promote mutual development: The case of Ghana


MARY BOATEMAA SETRANA, JUSTICE RICHARD KWABENA OWUSU KYEI, JOHN NARH, AND JOSEPH KOFI TEYE


5 Who bears the costs for vocational or academic training and education? The case of Germany’s skilled migration
programmes
HELEN SCHWENKEN AND JOHANNA ULLMANN


6 Bilateral labour agreements and migrant worker protection: The Philippine experience
GEOFFREY DUCANES, MARUJA M.B. ASIS, AND MARIA ANDREA SOCO-RODA


7 The role of stakeholder engagement in skill corridors: The case of Canada
HOMAYOUN SHIRAZI AND EMMA BOUILLARD


8 The impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-German migration skill corridors

IVANNA KYLIUSHYK, IRYNA LAPSHYNA, EMIL CHRÓL, AND VALENTYNA ZASADKO


9 Mobilising skilled people abroad: A strategic challenge for Morocco
MEHDI LAHLOU


10 Navigating skill flow: The case of India
S IRUDAYA RAJAN AND VARSHA JOSHI


PART III. Optimum allocation of skills of migrants, skill recognition and AI-assisted skill navigation


11 Optimum allocation of skills of migrants and automation
IZABELA GRABOWSKA AND AGNIESZKA BEZAT


12 Aligning skill formation and mobility strategies with sustainability goals
VIDMANTAS TŪTLYS, JONATHAN WINTERTON, AND VIOLETA CVETKOSKA


13 AI-driven decision support for fair migration
PAVEL SAVOV, KINGA SKORUPSKA, WITOLD SOSNOWSKI, AND ADAM WIERZBICKI


14 Conclusions and policy directions
IZABELA GRABOWSKA AND MARY BOATEMAA SETRANA

Biography

Izabela Grabowska is Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Kozminski University, Poland; Scientific Coordinator of Horizon Europe Link4Skills; and Director of Centre for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH). 

Mary Boatemaa Setrana is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana.

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