Wanted and Welcome? Policies for Highly Skilled Immigrants in Comparative Perspective /

 This book considers the origins, performance and diffusion of national immigration policies targeting highly skilled immigrants. Unlike asylum seekers and immigrants admitted under family reunification streams, highly skilled immigrants are typically cast as “wanted and welcome” as a consequence of...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Triadafilopoulos, Triadafilos (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Σειρά:Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Dismantling White Canada: Race, Rights and the Origins of the Points System
  • Creating Multicultural Australia: Local, Global and Transnational Contexts
  • Re-forming the Gates: Postwar Immigration Policy in the United States
  • Part II
  • Talent Matters: Immigration Policy-setting as a Competitive Scramble Among Jurisdictions
  • Skilled Immigration Policy in the United States: Does Policy Admit “Enough” Skilled Workers?
  • Pointless: On the Failure to Adopt an Immigration Points System in the United States
  • Part III
  • Closing the Gaps between Skilled Immigration and Canadian Labour Markets: Emerging Policy Issues and Priorities
  • Accreditation and the Labour Market Integration of Internationally Trained Engineers and Physicians in Canada
  • Integrating International Medical Graduates: The Canadian Approach to the Brain Waste Problem
  • Skilled Enough? Employment Outcomes for Recent Economic Migrants in Canada Compared to Australia
  • Part IV
  • The Politics and Policy of Highly Skilled Immigration under New Labour, 1997-2009
  • Germany: Reluctant Steps Towards a System of Selective Immigration
  • Wasting the Cultural Capital of Newcomers? Integrating Skilled Migrants into the British and German Labor Market.