322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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Alongside flows of trade and capital, the free movement of professionals, technical personnel, and students is seen as a key aspect of globalization. Yet not much detailed empirical research has been completed about the trajectories and experiences of these highly skilled or highly educated international migrants. What little is known about these forms of "global mobility," and the politics that... Read more
1: The Human Face of Global Mobility: A Research Agenda; 1: Global and Regional Contexts; 2: The Competition State and Multilateral Liberalization of Highly Skilled Migration; 3: From Migrants to Movers: Citizenship and Mobility in the European Union; 2: Highly Skilled Migration in the United States; 4: “The Best and the Brightest”: Immigrant Professionals in the U.S.; 5: Disaggregating Immigration Policy: The Politics of Skilled Labor Recruitment in the U.S.; 6: Interests and Institutions in Skilled Migration: Comparing Flows in the IT and Nursing Sectors in the U.S.; 3: The Human Face of Global Mobility; 7: Symbolic Analysts or Indentured Servants? Indian High-Tech Migrants in America’s Information Economy; 8: Students without Borders? Migratory Decision-Making among International Graduate Students in the U.S.; 9: Wired for Work: Highly Skilled Employment and Global Mobility in Mobile Telecommunications Multinationals; 10: London as Eurocity: French Free Movers in the Economic Capital of Europe
Biography
Adrian Favell
