High-Skilled Migration: Drivers and Policies

This volume offers a comparative perspective on the drivers, dynamics, and policies of high-skilled migration. Expertise on major countries and regions of destinations and origin of high-skilled migrants explores the evolution, impact, and implications of migration-relevant policies in attracting, selecting, and retaining high-skilled migrants in the context of other economic, political, or social factors that affect the migration decisions of skilled and highly skilled people. The variety of contributions in this volume aims to provide a comprehensive, multi-faceted assessment of the dynamic relationship between skill-shortages, skill production, high-skilled migration processes, and migration policy making, highlighting from different thematic and disciplinary perspectives the variety of approaches addressing high-skilled migration and its multiple economic, political, and social drivers. After a comparative assessment of high-skilled migration processes and policies, this book provides analysis of migration processes and policies of three major groups of skilled migrants which receive significant political and public attention, namely, students as the precursors of future high-skilled workers, as well as scientists and health professionals as ‘prototypes’ of sought-after migrants employed in occupations of major economic and social relevance.