Migrant knowledge workers: An empirical study of global Sydney as a knowledge city

Hu, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.011

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“…Baum (1997) concludes that it is important to consider the global city social polarization thesis within both a global and a local context. Hu (2014b) extends the argument to focus on migrant knowledge workers employed in the knowledge-intensive industries and highly skilled occupations in Sydney, which clearly indicate different patterns between international and internal migrants.…”

Section: Social Transformationmentioning

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Global City and Migration: A Critical Review for Sydney, Australia

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2014

Chn. J. Urb. Environ.Stud

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as a global city and the economic, social, and spatial transformations. Concerning migration, it addresses its increased scale and complexity, spatial settlement and movement, and social polarization and spatial inequality. The article identifies two gaps in the literature: Missing migration in the global Sydney discourse, and failure to address the interplay between global Sydney and migration. Based upon the thematic patterns of the literature, and the identified gaps, some critical reflections are made to suggest a future research agendautilizing global Sydney as a meaningful spatial scale for contemporary migration analysis, and developing the analytical frameworks and methodologies that integrate both global Sydney and migration research.

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Global City and Migration: A Critical Review for Sydney, Australia

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2014

Chn. J. Urb. Environ.Stud

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“…Global mobility includes people movement from Australia (internal migration) and from overseas (international migration). Internal migration and international migration are determined by the direction of movement, not by the country of birth; both internal migration and international migration include people born in Australia and overseas [40]. In 2006-2011, returning Australians (Australia-born people) accounted for 10% of international migration, after China and India only as the third largest group by country of birth.…”

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Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Hu¹

2015

Economies

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Abstract:The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical framework linking global city and migration, and empirically apply it to Sydney. We build a set of indexes to measure global competitiveness, global migration, and global mobility of communities across global Sydney. The findings reveal that global competitiveness-the defining capacity of Sydney as a global city-has very weak association with global migration that measures the stock of foreign born population, but has very strong association with global mobility that measures the people movement in recent years. These findings call for a redefinition of migration to incorporate people movement to better capture the interplay between global city and migration.

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“…Many studies on urban agglomeration have shown what makes well-educated people move to regions, which helps to fortify the absorptive capacity of regions [2,8,9]. However, attracting well-educated people could be challenging to lagged regions [10].…”

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Analyzing Determining Factors of Young Graduates’ Decision to Stay in Lagged Regions

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Kim²

2020

Sustainability

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This study identifies what factors have effects on college graduates’ decisions to stay for jobs in lagged regions using a bivariate probit model with sample selection. The results show that strong preferences for a home village and a university region contribute to the decision about job location concerning the regions. In addition, low living costs have much significant impact on spatial choice compared with economic factors, such as the levels of wage and job security. The long-term economic growth of lagged regions could be affected by a preference of high-school graduates to attend local universities.

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Migrant knowledge workers: An empirical study of global Sydney as a knowledge city

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Global City and Migration: A Critical Review for Sydney, Australia

Global City and Migration: A Critical Review for Sydney, Australia

Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Analyzing Determining Factors of Young Graduates’ Decision to Stay in Lagged Regions

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