High-Skilled Migration

Drivers and Policies

Edited by Mathias Czaika

Features contributions from leading figures in the field
Focuses on high-skilled migration policies, their making, consequences, and limitations
Provides a state-of-the-art overview on this vibrant and rapidly expanding field of social-scientific research

High-Skilled Migration

Drivers and Policies

Edited by Mathias Czaika

Description

Political and scientific debates on migration policies have mostly focused on governments' efforts to control or reduce low-skilled, asylum, and irregular migration or to encourage the return migration of these categories. Less research and constructive discourse has been conducted on the role and effectiveness of policies to attract or retain high-skilled workers. An improved understanding of the drivers and dynamics of high-skilled migration is essential for effective policy-making, as most highly developed and emerging economies experience growing shortages of high-skilled labour supply in certain occupations and sectors, and skilled immigration is often viewed as one way of addressing these.

Simplistic assumptions that high-skilled migrants are primarily in pursuit of higher wages raise the expectation that policies which open channels for high-skilled immigration are generally successful. Although many countries have introduced policies aimed at attracting and facilitating the recruitment of high-skilled workers, not all recruitment efforts have had the desired effects, and anecdotal evidence on the effectiveness of these programmes is rather mixed. The reason is that the rather narrow focus on migration policy coincides with a lack of systematic and rigorous consideration of other economic, social, and political drivers of migration, which may be equally - or sometimes even more - important than migration policies per se. A better understanding of migration policies, their making, consequences and limitations, requires a systematic knowledge of the broader economic, social and political structures and their interaction in both origin and destination countries.

This book enhances this vibrant field of social scientific enquiry by providing a systematic, multidisciplinary, and global analysis of policies driving international high-skilled migration processes in their interaction with other migration drivers at the individual, city, national, and international level.

High-Skilled Migration

Drivers and Policies

Edited by Mathias Czaika

1:High-Skilled Migration: Introduction and Synopsis, Mathias Czaika
2:High-Skilled Migration in Times of Global Economic Crisis, Mathias Czaika and Christopher Parsons
3:High-Skilled Migration and the Limits of Migration Policies, Ronald Skeldon
4:Female High-Skilled Migration: The Role of Policies, Anna Boucher
5:European High-Skilled Migration Policy: Trends and Challenges, Lucie Cerna
6:Shifts in Selective Migration Policy Models: A Comparison of Australia, Canada, and the US, Rey Koslowski
7:High-Skilled Migration Policy Challenges from a US Perspective, Michael S. Teitelbaum
8:High-Skilled Immigration and Innovation, Alessandra Venturini, Sona Kalantaryan, and Claudio Fassio
9:High-Skilled Migration and the Attractiveness of Cities, Michael C. Ewers and Ryan Dicce
10:Attracting and Retaining International Students as Skilled Migrants, Lesleyanne Hawthorne
11:International Student Mobility: Sending Country Determinants and Policies, Mary M. Kritz and Douglas T. Gurak
12:Internationalisation and Diversification of Academic Careers, Sorana Toma, Maria Villares-Varela, and Mathias Czaika
13:Postdoctoral Destination Decisions: Advice from Asian-born, Western-Trained Bio-Scientists, Anju Mary Paul
14:What Fundamentals Drive the Immigration of Physicians? A Panel Data Analysis of OECD Countries, Yasser Moullan
15:Recruitment Policies of Non-EU/EEA Nurses and Ethical Issues: A Comparison of the UK, France, and Switzerland, Angèle Mendy
16:Staunching the Flow: The Brain Drain and Health Professional Retention Strategies in South Africa, Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda
17:Conclusion, Mathias Czaika

High-Skilled Migration

Drivers and Policies

Edited by Mathias Czaika

Author Information

Edited by Mathias Czaika, Director of International Migration Institute, University of Oxford

Mathias Czaika is an Associate Professor in Migration and Development and Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford. Mathias is leading an interdisciplinary research group focusing on the drivers and dynamics of international migration processes and their impacts. His wider research interest is to understand the role and relative importance of migration policy in shaping patterns of international migration. His publications include The Political Economy of Refugee Migration and Foreign Aid (Palgrave, 2009), and he has published in numerous journals such as Demography, Population and Development Review, International Migration Review, European Union Politics, and the Journal of Peace Research.

Contributors:

Anna Boucher, University of Sydney.
Lucie Cerna, University of Oxford.
Abel Chikanda, University of Kansas.
Jonathan Crush, Balsillie School of International Affairs .
Mathias Czaika, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford.
Ryan Dicce, Texas A&M University.
Michael C. Ewers, Qatar University.
Claudio Fassio, University of Lund.
Douglas T. Gurak, Cornell University.
Lesleyanne Hawthorne, University of Melbourne.
Sona Kalantaryan, European University Institute.
Rey Koslowski, University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).
Mary M. Kritz, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Angèle Flora Mendy, University of Lausanne.
Yasser Moullan, University of Reunion Island and University of Oxford.
Christopher R. Parsons, University of Western Australia.
Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College.
Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex and Maastricht University.
Michael S. Teitelbaum, Harvard Law School.
Sorana Toma, Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE), Center for Quantitative Sociology.
Alessandra Venturini, University of Turin.
María Villares-Varela, University of Birmingham.