Emigration, Immigration, and the Quality of Membership: On the Political Economy of Highly Skilled Immigration Politics

Kolb, Holger

doi:10.1057/9780230292536_4

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“…While the profile of the “deserving” (Chauvin, Garcés‐Mascareñas, and Kraler, ) labour migrant varies in and across states according to specific production regimes, a growing interest in skilled and highly‐skilled migrants is widely observed (Kolb, ).…”

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“…While the profile of the "deserving" (Chauvin, Garc es-Mascareñas, and Kraler, 2013a) labour migrant varies in and across states according to specific production regimes, a growing interest in skilled and highly-skilled migrants is widely observed (Kolb, 2010). Despite the overall limited numbers of such migrants, the intensified effort that states devote to attracting them should be understood in light of the manifold advantages they are supposed to bring to national economies and societies (Boeri, 2012).…”

Section: Emerging Themes In the Labour Migration Literature: Towards mentioning

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Looking for the Best and Brightest? Deservingness Regimes in Italian Labour Migration Management

Bonizzoni

2018

International Migration

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It is often maintained that contemporary foreign labour recruitment programs have taken an increasingly selective stance and that skills are increasingly crucial in granting migrants easier access and stronger welfare and residency rights in receiving countries. The paper provides a retrospective account of the evolution of Italian labour migration management, paying attention to the changing selection criteria reflected in some of its “front, back and side doors”. It will be shown that Italian labour migration management is increasingly embracing a bifurcated regime of deservingness. Despite some recent tentative signs of change towards an increased evaluation of high skills as a selection principle embedded into a competitiveness‐driven frame, over the last decades labour migration management has been largely dominated by the recruitment of a low‐skilled workforce. The paper discusses the emergence of a specific construction migrants’ deservingness placing Italy in a peculiar position in a European context.

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Section: Emerging Themes In the Labour Migration Literature: Towards mentioning

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Section: Emerging Themes In the Labour Migration Literature: Towards mentioning

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Looking for the Best and Brightest? Deservingness Regimes in Italian Labour Migration Management

Bonizzoni

2018

International Migration

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“…Discussions of highly‐skilled programmes often overlook the fact that they frequently consist of a number of different policy instruments. Kolb (2010) has usefully divided such admission policies into three main types: employer‐driven procedures, sector‐based measures for pre‐determined skills and human capital‐based instruments. Intra‐company or corporate transfers, which are now a major form of entry into the UK and the USA (Salt and Wood 2011; Freeman and Hill 2006), are an example of employer‐driven procedures while policies for specific sectors such as information and communications technology (e.g.…”

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Inequalities in the (De‐)Commodification of Labour: Immigration, the Nation State, and Labour Market Stratification

McGovern

2012

Sociology Compass

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In an era when globalization has supposedly challenged the ability of the nation state to manage economic affairs, I shall argue that the state not only still matters but that it also plays a major role in processes of labour market stratification for migrant workers. Using the organizing concepts of commodification and de-commodification I review the growing comparative literature on government policies for economic migration to show how skill-based admissions policies, restrictions on freedom of employment, as well as differential access to social rights and citizenship generate durable forms of categorical inequality. What is perhaps unique about economic immigration is that these inequalities are underpinned by legislation and, in the case of the highly skilled, requirements for formal certification. The paper concludes by calling for further research within this rapidly growing field to explain how these complex patterns of inequality have emerged and whether they extend beyond the small number of cases that have been examined repeatedly in the existing literature.

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An Examination of the Attitudes and Behaviors of Turkish Doctors and Medical Students towards Emigration

Gencer,

Erol,

Çelik

et al. 2024

Black Sea Journal of Health Science

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Objective: In this study, it is desired to investigate the attitudes and behaviors of doctors and medical school students towards brain drain. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted between the dates of 14.11.2022 – 31.12.2022 at Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University (AFSU). It was made to first-year medical faculty students and AFSU Faculty of Medicine Doctors. The sample of the study consisted of 691 students and 110 doctors. SPSS 26.0 statistical package program was used in the analysis of the data. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square analysis were used. Results: In the study, there are 784 (97.9%) citizens of the Republic of Turkey and 17 (2.1%) foreign nationals. It was observed that 491 (61.3%) of the participants were women and 691 (86.3%) were students. When the opinions of the participants about thinking of working abroad were examined, 429 (53.6%) people stated that they wanted to work, 123 (15.4%) did not want to work, and 249 (31.1%) people were undecided. If you want to practice medicine abroad, would you consider returning? 180 (42%) answered yes, 114 (26.6%) no and 135 (31.5%) undecided. Do you think language exams are an obstacle for you to go abroad? To the question, 628 (78.4%) of the participants answered yes, 99 (12.4% answered no) and 74 (9.2%) stated that they were undecided. 628 (78.4%) answered yes, 99 (12.4%) said no, 74 (9.2%) stated that they were undecided. Conclusions: Higher income, better treatment (Respect, love, understanding,.. ), insecurity , as one of the reasons why doctors want to go abroad. These include working conditions, technologically equipped healthcare systems abroad, travel opportunities, and career and further education opportunities. With the increasing number of staff, Doctors think that their specialty training will be insufficient, and with this thought, doctors want to go abroad. It has been observed that the rate of those who want to practice medicine abroad and the rate of those who want to return when they go are high. It has been determined that the foreign language problem is an important obstacle for brain drain. It can be understood that, due to the high rate of participants being undecided in case of an increase in working wages in Turkey, doctors may give up going if their wages increase.

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Emigration, Immigration, and the Quality of Membership: On the Political Economy of Highly Skilled Immigration Politics

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Looking for the Best and Brightest? Deservingness Regimes in Italian Labour Migration Management

Looking for the Best and Brightest? Deservingness Regimes in Italian Labour Migration Management

Inequalities in the (De‐)Commodification of Labour: Immigration, the Nation State, and Labour Market Stratification

An Examination of the Attitudes and Behaviors of Turkish Doctors and Medical Students towards Emigration

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