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Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Female High-Skill Migration: Concepts and Dynamics
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Female High-Skill Migration: A Sector-Specific Approach
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Problems and Solutions: Towards a New Understanding of the Female High-Skill Migrant in Europe
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Reviews
" [...] this volume's incisive and wide-ranging analysis suggests that the implications for skilled migrants are far from positive, with widespread deskilling, especially among women. Isaakyan and Triandafyllidou have, for the first time, brought together a brilliant set of case studies from across Europe in a range of sectors to argue that the the gendered outcomes of the crisis for highly skilled migrants has been far from gender-neutral. This is a wonderful contribution to both the literature on the crisis and on skilled migration." - Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UK
"There is a lot of noise but not much research on high skill migration in Europe. Triandafyllidou and Isaakyan's edited book fills the void, providing first-hand data and adding an original interpretative angle to the general picture. With an admirable variety of sources and methods, the authors outline how the looming Euro-crisis further exacerbates gender-based differences in migration trajectories. As public debate on the effects of intra-EU mobility abounds, this volume is a healthy antidote to the all-too common, over-simplified contrast between low-skill and high-skill migrants." - Ettore Recchi, Sciences Po, France
"Ever wondered who are these 'best and brightest' that countries try to attract with their policies on high skill migration? Ever wondered what the crisis did to these policies? This book shows the gender bias involved, and the indirect but powerful impact of the crisis on high skill female migrants, leaving female migrants mostly underpaid and overqualified. A brilliant contribution to migration, recession and gender scholarship!" - Mieke Verloo, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laura Bartolini, European University Institute, Italy
James Buchan, Queen Margaret University, UK
Lucie Cerna, University of Oxford, UK
Isabel Craveiro, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Mathias Czaika, University of Oxford, UK
Sondra Cuban, Western Washington University, USA
Matthew Dixon, University of Oxford, UK
Gilles Dussault, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Portugal
Carmen González Enríquez, National University of Distance Education, Spain
Ruby Gropas, European University Institute, Italy
Pawe? Kaczmarczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland
Marta Moskal, University of Glasgow, UK
Kyoko Shinozaki, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Mikolaj Stanek, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High Skill Migration and Recession
Book Subtitle: Gendered Perspectives
Editors: Anna Triandafyllidou, Irina Isaakyan
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137467119
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46710-2Published: 26 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46711-9Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 308
Topics: Sociology of Work, Migration, Gender Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Public Law