UID:
almahu_9949384044402882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781317024071
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1317024079
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9781315555584
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1315555581
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9781317024064
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1317024060
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9781317024057
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1317024052
Content:
The increasing global competition of knowledge economies has begun a new era of labour migration, as economies chase 'the best and the brightest': the movement of highly skilled workers. This book examines the experiences of highly educated migrants subjected to two distinct and incompatible public discourses: one that identifies them in terms of nationality and presupposed religion, and another that focuses on their education and employment status, which suggests that they deserve the best treatment from societies engaged in the global 'race for talent'. Presenting new empirical research collected in Amsterdam, Barcelona and London amongst highly educated migrants from Turkey, the author draws on their narratives to address the question of whether such migrants should be apprehended any differently from their predecessors who moved to Europe as 'guestworkers' in the twentieth century. With attention to the reasons for which highly skilled workers choose to migrate and then stay (or not) in their 'host' countries, their connection to their multiple homes and the ways in which they meet the challenges of integration - in part by way of their position in relation to other migrants - and their acquisition of citizenship in the 'host' country, The Migration of Highly Educated Turkish Citizens to Europe offers insights on an under-researched trend in the field of migration. The author develops three nexuses - the mobility/migration nexus, the mobility/citizenship nexus, and the mobility/dwelling nexus - to account for the embedded sense of mobility that underlies these 'new' migrants and offers a holistic picture about their trajectory from 'arrival to settlement' and all that lies in-between. As such, it will appeal to scholars in the fields of sociology and political science with interests in migration and mobility, ethnicity and integration.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Making sense of highly educated migration: the case for mobility nexuses -- Why migrants from Turkey? -- Why Amsterdam, Barcelona and London? -- Mobility nexuses -- Notes -- References -- PART I: The mobility/migration nexus -- 1. Elsewhere starts here -- Personal motives, constraints and facilitators of migration -- Educational motives -- Professional motives -- Family-related motives -- Mobility motives -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 2. Temporalities of migration: from (non-)return to mobility -- What is 'further stay'? -- Professional reasons -- Family reasons -- Quality of life factors -- Return, settlement or remigration? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- PART II: The mobility/citizenship nexus -- 3. Mobility enabling citizenship -- Naturalization studies: individual, communal and contextual factors -- The benefits of naturalization -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 4. To naturalize, or not to naturalize -- The meaning of citizenship -- The impact of citizenship policies -- The policies of dual citizenship -- The collateral damage of naturalization: single citizenship? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- PART III: The mobility/dwelling nexus -- 5. 'Distance is a state of mind': travelling in dwelling, dwelling in travelling -- Metaphoricity of transnational practices: travelling and dwelling in multiple spaces -- Travelling in dwelling -- Dwelling-in-travelling: home, homeland, homesickness -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 6. New vs. old diversity: between emplacement and threatened mobility -- Super-diversity, ethnic hierarchies and boundary-making -- Where new migrants meet 'old diversity' -- Concluding remarks -- Notes.
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315555584
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