Locational preferences of high‐level overseas talent returning to China: Evidence from microdata analysis

Liu, Ye; Huang, Cui‐Ying; Zhang, Fangfang; Ma, Haitao

doi:10.1002/psp.2650

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“…Others may break the stay/return binary by moving to another country after graduation. Poststudy migration choices thus result from a combination of personal‐ and family‐related factors and perceptions of home, host countries, as well as other countries (Liu et al, 2023; Soon, 2012).…”

Section: Education‐migration Nexus and Lifestyle Mobilitiesmentioning

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It's not all about money: Understanding Chinese student switchers in Britain

Huang,

Cohen

2023

Population Space and Place

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This study challenges the assumption that international students from the Global South migrate to advanced Western economies primarily for economic gain and social distinction. Through temporally focused interviews with Chinese student switchers in the United Kingdom, that is, migrants who moved from China for university and remain working in situ after graduation, we examine how lifestyle factors may come into play in evoking and accommodating (im)mobilities. Our findings reveal how participants' experiences before, during and after international education are narrated as an entanglement of affective and rational concerns. We highlight how their migration decisions are driven by the search for a desired lifestyle that features work–life balance and a perceived release from a work‐oriented and socially pressurized life in China. Yet, their final emplacement remains an open question due to familial responsibilities in China and Chinese citizenship regulations. The study provides an original conceptual amalgamation of student migration and lifestyle mobility, and sheds further light on the importance of life courses in international student migration literature and lifestyle mobility studies.

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It's not all about money: Understanding Chinese student switchers in Britain

Huang,

Cohen

2023

Population Space and Place

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Why do Chinese overseas doctoral graduates return to China? The push‐pull factors and the influence of gender and gender norms

Liu,

Morgan

2024

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Although attention has been paid to return migration internationally, research studies on why Chinese overseas doctoral graduates return to China are few. A study that considers gendered motivations has yet to be found. Using a qualitative study with 31 Chinese overseas doctoral graduate returnees, this study examines factors influencing graduates' reasons for returning to China and how these relate to Chinese gender and gender role‐related cultural norms. Using the push‐pull theory and the concepts of gender (as an individual characteristic) and gender norms, the study shows that the reasons for return were gendered, with females motivated by family and emotional factors and males by economic and career benefits. The study identifies inequalities derived from traditional gender roles and cultural norms that persist in China. This has implications for state policy, higher education institutions and future research.

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Retention of the highly educated migrants: from the perspective of urban e-service capability

Zhaoyuan,

Xiaofeng

2024

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Background Talent is a crucial resource for economic and social development, serving as the driving force behind urban progress. As China experiences rapid growth in digital city construction, the capability of e-services continues to improve incessantly. In China, the new-generation highly educated migrants (NGHEMs) account for ~ 20–30% of the total floating populations. This study aimed to explore the settlement intention of new-generation highly educated migrations in China from the new perspective of urban e-service capabilities. Furthermore, the mechanism of the urban e-services on the settlement intention on the NGHEMs will be proved. Methods This paper employed data of China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2017 and Evaluation Report of Government E-service Capability Index (2017). Descriptive analyses were conducted to investigate the factors influencing the settlement intention of NGHEMs in the destination city. Based on the principle of utility maximization, LASSO regression was employed to select individual and city characteristics that determined the settlement intention of NGHEMs. The impact of urban e-services on settlement intention was analyzed by using ordinal logit model. Additionally, robustness check, endogeneity analysis, and heterogeneity analysis were performed to validate the benchmark regression results. Finally, mediation model was employed to examine whether urban e-services enhance the settlement intention of NGHEMs by improving urban livability and urban innovation. Results The results indicate that the urban e-services promote the NGHEMs’ settlement intention in the destination cities. Moreover, the results are still robust through a series of robustness tests. Furthermore, from the perspective of individual and regional heterogeneity, urban e-services significantly enhances the settlement intention of NGHEMs with male and female, married and urban household registration, and urban e-services can promote the settlement intention of NGHEMs with over 3 million inhabitants and those in the eastern regions of China. Finally, the intermediary effect test shows that urban e-services promote the settlement intention of NGHEMs through urban livability and urban innovation. Conclusion This study highlights the important impact of urban e-services on the settlement intention of new-generation highly educated migrants. The conclusions of this study provide suggestions for the government to use when designing policies to enhance the settlement intention of the NGHEMs and to improve the development of urban e-services.

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Locational preferences of high‐level overseas talent returning to China: Evidence from microdata analysis

Cited by 3 publications

References 68 publications

It's not all about money: Understanding Chinese student switchers in Britain

It's not all about money: Understanding Chinese student switchers in Britain

Why do Chinese overseas doctoral graduates return to China? The push‐pull factors and the influence of gender and gender norms

Retention of the highly educated migrants: from the perspective of urban e-service capability

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