World Cities and the Limits to Global Control: A Case Study of Executive Search Firms in Europe's Leading Cities*

Boyle, Mark; Findlay, Allan; Lelièvre, Éva; Paddison, Ronan

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00330.x

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“…The migration channels concept has received considerable attention since it was first proposed (Beaverstock, 1991(Beaverstock, , 1994Boyle et aL, 1996;Champion, 1994;Cormode, 1994;Garrick, 1991;Tzeng, 1995). Early attempts to model migra?…”

Section: Clarifying the Channels Conceptmentioning

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A Migration Channels Approach to the Study of Professionals Moving to and from Hong Kong

Findlay¹,

Li²

1998

International Migration Review

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"This article evaluates the concept of migration channels, identifying the strengths and weaknesses that have emerged from use of a migration channels framework in international migration research. Using professional migration to and from Hong Kong in the 1990s as an empirical lens, it is argued that the meso-scale understanding offered by examining the effect of migration channels is valuable. This is illustrated in terms of the contrasting channels used by different professions, as well by migrants motivated to move by citizenship as opposed to career reasons."

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Section: Clarifying the Channels Conceptmentioning

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A Migration Channels Approach to the Study of Professionals Moving to and from Hong Kong

Findlay¹,

Li²

1998

International Migration Review

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“…Financial, trade and migration flows within this system do not, therefore, have any automatic equilibrating system tending towards the eventual removal of unevennesses, but rather mobility of capital and labour are inherent to the system (Sassen, 1988). High level international skill exchanges are needed to manage and monitor the dynamic of international capital flows, while migration of service labour to global cities ensures their continued attractiveness as sites of global control (Boyle et al, 1996). Nor will the resulting migration flows tend in the long run towards some 'innocent' regional integration through both high and low wage labour migration exchanges between countries, but to a highly structured regional ß Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1998 division of migrant labour relating to the economic demands of global cities on their hinterlands in terms of the physical and human resources over which they have political and social control.…”

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Migration transition or migration transformation in the Asian dragon economies?

Findlay¹,

Jones²,

Davidson

1998

Int J Urban Regional Res

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There has been a marked tendency to interpret the recent transformation of international migration systems in Eastern Asia in terms of a 'migration transition' model. The transition in these countries from net emigration to net immigration, with major inflows from poorer adjacent countries, is seen as being driven by an intricate regional pattern of uneven development but growing economic integration. This paper challenges this view through an examination of the trade, investment and migration linkages of the region's four dragon economies (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan). It argues that the key influences on their international migration streams reflect, above all, the functions of these states as second-order, global city regions. Their place in the global capitalist system creates a shared demand for very particular types of both highly skilled and unskilled labour, but the migration policies of the four states are independently, and therefore distinctively, socially constructed. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1998.

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“…One type of recruitment agency that typically enables the mobility of skilled workers at the high end of the labour market is executive search firms (Boyle et al, 1996) or 'elite labour market intermediaries' (Faulconbridge et al, 2008). Examples of these firms include Egon Zehnder, Korn Ferry and Spencer Stuart, who operate on a global scale, connecting applicants who hold and/or are looking to move into senior management positions.…”

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Intermediaries and destination reputations: explaining flows of skilled migration

Harvey

Groutsis

Broek

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Governments have increasingly commercialised their migration services, which has fuelled a mushrooming migration industry creating a ripe context for the central role of migration intermediaries. It is therefore timely to explore the new actors responsible for shaping contemporary flows of skilled migration. Drawing on the work of existing studies and a wide variety of secondary data, we argue that the range of intermediaries who have emerged as a result of the commercialisation process, have been poorly understood in the skilled migration and migration industries literatures. Discussion of these actors sheds important theoretical light on how intermediaries, destination reputations and skilled migration flows intersect. Accordingly, we outline six propositions that identify the interconnected relationship between migration intermediaries, reputation and skilled migration flows.

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World Cities and the Limits to Global Control: A Case Study of Executive Search Firms in Europe's Leading Cities*

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

A Migration Channels Approach to the Study of Professionals Moving to and from Hong Kong

A Migration Channels Approach to the Study of Professionals Moving to and from Hong Kong

Migration transition or migration transformation in the Asian dragon economies?

Intermediaries and destination reputations: explaining flows of skilled migration

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