The Human Face of Global Mobility

by Favell,Adrian

• ISBN13: 9781412805209
• ISBN10: 1412805201
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Drawing on the work of a long-standing discussion group at the Center for Comparative and Global Research of UCLA’s International Institute, contributions to The Human Face of Global Mobility explore the reality behind assumptions about new global migration trends. Articles challenge widely held views about the elite characteristics of these migrants, the costs and consequences of the brain drain said to follow from the migration of skilled workers, the determinants of national policies on high skilled migrants, and the presumed effortlessness of professional mobility in an integrating world. The volume also sheds new light on international student migration, the politics of temporary, non-immigrant workers in the United States, new international forms of regulating movement, and realities of everyday lives of multinational employees in the world’s transnational cities.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	vii
1. The Human Face of Global Mobility: A Research Agenda	1
Adrian Favell, Miriam Feldblum and Michael Peter Smith
Part One: Global and Regional Contexts
2. The Competition State and Multilateral Liberalization of Highly Skilled Migration	29	(24)
Sandra Lavenex
3. From Migrants to Movers: Citizenship and Mobility in the European Union	53	(28)
Ettore Recchi
Part Two: Highly Skilled Migration in the United States
4. "The Best and the Brightest": Immigrant Professionals in the U.S.	81	(22)
Jeanne Batalova and B. Lindsay Lowell
5. Disaggregating Immigration Policy: The Politics of Skilled Labor Recruitment in the U.S.	103	(28)
Gary P. Freeman and David K. Hill
6. Interests and Institutions in Skilled Migration: Comparing Flows in the IT and Nursing Sectors in the U.S.	131	(28)
Jeannette Money and Dana Zartner Falstrom
Part Three: The Human Face of Global Mobility
7. Symbolic Analysts or Indentured Servants? Indian High-Tech Migrants in America's Information Economy	159	(22)
Paula Chakravartty
8. Students without Borders? Migratory Decision-Making among International Graduate Students in the U.S.	181	(30)
Katalin Szelényi
9. Wired for Work: Highly Skilled Employment and Global Mobility in Mobile Telecommunications Multinationals	211	(36)
Ödül Bozkurt
10. London as Eurocity: French Free Movers in the Economic Capital of Europe	247	(28)
Adrian Favell
Bibliography	275	(28)
Index	303