Global Mobility of Highly Skilled People Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Self-initiated Expatriation

This volume examines self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), the category of highly skilled people whose movement from one country to another is by choice. Although they are not forced to relocate due to work, conflict or natural disaster, their migration pattern is every bit as complex. The book challen...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Habti, Driss (Editor), Elo, Maria (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:International Perspectives on Migration
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Rethinking Self-initiated Expatriation in International Highly Skilled Migration Driss Habti and Maria Elo
  • Part I: Self-initiated Highly Skilled Expatriates and Assigned Expatriates: Recent Developments: 2. Careers of Highly Educated Self-initiated Expatriates: Observations from Studies among Finnish Business Professionals Chris Brewster, Liisa Mäkelä and Vesa Suutari
  • 3. Local language acquisition among organizational and self-initiated Finnish expatriates in China Ling Eleanor Zhang and Jakob Lauring
  • Part II: Emerging Drivers and Migration Dynamics of Highly Skilled Expatriates: 4. Dynamics of Diasporic Life - Entry and Exit Behavior of Highly Skilled Self-initiated Expatriates Maria Elo and Johanna Leinonen
  • 5. Mapping drivers of Arab highly skilled self-initiated expatriation to Finland: Personal-professional life pendulum Driss Habti
  • 12. Self-initiated Expatriates and their Legal Rights in Finland: Incentives and Obstacles to Recruitment and Retention Jaana Palander
  • 13. Self-initiated Expatriation Rebooted: A Puzzling Reality - a Challenge to Migration Research, and its Future Direction Maria Elo and Driss Habti.
  • 6. How far can talent take you? Polish skilled mobility as self-initiated expatriation during and after the Cold War Anna Matyska
  • Part III: Integrated Networking and Capital mobilization: Relational Dynamics among Highly skilled Expatriates: 7. Together or Alone Together in Ethnically Diverse Work Communities: High-Skilled Expatriates and Social Networking in Finland Aini Pehkonen
  • 8. Finnish Citizens’ Encounters with the Social and Spatial Environment in Indian Mega-cities Nicol Saventti
  • 9. Coping with the boundaryless career: Focus on Finnish self-initiated expatriates in Poland Malla Mattila, Hanna salminen, Anna Astahova
  • Part IV: Embedding Place and Process of Integration and Adjustment: 10. Finnish Expatriates in Brussels: Dimensions and Types of Adaptation Johanna Saarentalo-Vuorimäki
  • 11. What about ‘expatriate children’? Child-level perspective on self-initiated expatriation of Finns Abroad Anu Warinowski