Integration of Highly Skilled Migrants in the Workplace: a Multi-level Framework

Riemsdijk, Micheline van; Basford, Scott

doi:10.1007/s12134-021-00845-x

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“…Immigrant entrepreneurship is important not only for economic development but also to help accelerate the integration process in destination countries. From this perspective, failing to give sufficient attention to female migrant entrepreneurship will also cause problems in the integration process itself (Van Riemsdijk & Basford, 2022). This is why female entrepreneurship has become a well-developed research area compared to immigrant entrepreneurship, which is very much lacking in terms of both theoretical contexts and studies conducted (Pyong & Bozorgmehr, 2018).…”

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Immigrant entrepreneurship and gender dimensions: A systematic review

Sarihasan

Dajnoki²,

Al-Dalahmeh³

2023

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Purpose: This paper discusses whether the gender dimension of immigrants influences their entrepreneurial activities in host societies. Human capital theory, social capital theory, and disadvantage theory are used to explore immigrant entrepreneurship and its understanding as a migration research field worthy of more attention.Design/methodology/approach: Based on the systematic analysis of literature and peer-reviewed papers, a comprehensive analytical framework was developed. This framework is provided with an overview to discover the 20 articles written between 2000 and 2021 from different countries are discussed.Findings: It has been found that female immigrant entrepreneurs face many different challenges to sustain their businesses in the host countries, based on their human capital, social-capital, and disadvantage perspectives. Consequently, this research adds to the literature on female immigrants and has practical implications for policymakers and the immigrant community.Social Implications: The implication of this study is that destination countries should do something to improve the human and social capital of female immigrants to decrease the disadvantages they face.Originality/value: In this study, we specifically consider female immigrant enterprises to be as important as male enterprises in the destination countries to support the social and economic integration of migrants. On the other hand, this study also shows the disadvantages female immigrant entrepreneurs face before establishing a business and after starting their entrepreneurial activities.

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Immigrant entrepreneurship and gender dimensions: A systematic review

Sarihasan

Dajnoki²,

Al-Dalahmeh³

2023

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“…accepting local norms) is the only viable path to local career success (e.g. Harrison et al ., 2019; van Riemsdijk and Basford, 2022). Finally, the third type of HSMs was identified as “career conformists”, that is, accepting reality as it is, acknowledging positives and accepting negatives.…”

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“…In this domain, studies have also addressed migrants' motivation to move and integrate as well as their readiness to cope with a variety of challenges experienced locally (e.g. Cerdin et al ., 2014; Zikic and Richardson, 2016; van Riemsdijk and Basford, 2022). One of the major challenges and most commonly researched topics related to skilled migrant careers in the host country has been their inability to secure employment commensurate with their level of education.…”

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“…On the other hand, there is also a need to focus on organizational and talent management efforts to support integration into local organizations (e.g. Crowley-Henry and Al Ariss, 2018; Harrison et al ., 2019; van Riemsdijk and Basford, 2022).…”

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“…These barriers may relate to individual-level issues (e.g. language proficiency, absence of local network) (Crowley-Henry and Al Ariss, 2018; Nolan and Liang, 2022; Koveshnikov et al ., 2022) or may be much more systemic and, thus, harder to address, as they center at the level of the organizational system, culture, local norms and societal attitudes (van Riemsdijk and Basford, 2022). For instance, Risberg and Romani (2021) found that HSMs in Sweden are seen as a threat to organizational “normality”, meaning that managers and colleagues feel more comfortable working with people like themselves rather than people coming from other countries.…”

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Being an “outsider in”: skilled migrants' career strategies in local organizations

Usanova

Zikic²,

Vaiman³

2023

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PurposeAlthough the literature on the careers of skilled migrants is growing, relatively little is known about their experiences inside host country organizations. This article is a replication and an extension of a study by Zikic et al. (2010) on career challenges and coping strategies of skilled migrants. In contrast to the replicated study, where the focus was on the unemployed pool of talented migrants, in this study, the authors look at the career experiences of those who are already employed. Similar to the study of Zikic et al. (2010), the authors seek to explore how migrants understand their careers and what approaches they use to enact career opportunities from the perspective of “insiders” in local organizations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a qualitative explorative approach. Based on 24 in-depth interviews with highly qualified specialists, who were hired for positions in Luxembourg corresponding to their professional profiles, the authors explore what challenges they face at the workplace and how they tackle them.FindingsThis research not only replicates the study of Zikic et al. (2010) but also extends the authors’ knowledge of the careers of skilled migrants in the context of local organizations. By focusing on employed skilled migrants, the authors open a “black box” of their career challenges and strategies and extend an earlier career typology (Zikic et al., 2010) into what happens within local organizations. In particular, this study identifies two major challenges that skilled migrants experience, namely, “trying to fit in” and “managing career mismatch”. Then, it shows three unique strategies that skilled migrants use to manage their careers. This allows us to cluster skilled migrants into three categories that the authors conceptualized, namely “workhorses”, “career rebels” and “career conformists”.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature on the careers of skilled migrants by theorizing the experiences of migrant careers after organizational entry. It also contributes to the talent management literature by providing nuanced insights into the challenges, strategies and profiles that this global talent has.

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“If you smile, they smile”: Explaining highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine

Reinold,

Hooijen,

Özer

2024

Population Space and Place

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Creating a welcoming environment is high on policy makers' agendas to attract highly educated migrants. It is unclear, however, which factors contribute to migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by exploring the factors influencing highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. We develop a conceptual framework that differentiates between the host country's institutional (e.g., public services for migrants) and societal (e.g., tolerance, friendliness) incorporation capacity and the migrants' personal incorporation capacity (e.g., personality traits). The study follows a mixed methods research design using survey data (n = 391) and serial interviews (wave1: n = 67; wave2: n = 49) with highly educated migrants in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine, a cross‐border region between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The quantitative and qualitative findings indicate that all three indicators of the incorporation capacity framework contribute to migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. The societal incorporation capacity emerges as most important in the analysis. Lastly, interview findings emphasise the importance of language across all incorporation capacity dimensions. The paper contributes to the literature on high‐skilled migration, and particularly on high‐skilled migrants' experiences in the host country.

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Integration of Highly Skilled Migrants in the Workplace: a Multi-level Framework

Cited by 12 publications

References 49 publications

Immigrant entrepreneurship and gender dimensions: A systematic review

Immigrant entrepreneurship and gender dimensions: A systematic review

Being an “outsider in”: skilled migrants' career strategies in local organizations

“If you smile, they smile”: Explaining highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine

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