{"id":2322,"date":"2018-07-27T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:21:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:21:31","slug":"understanding-access-to-the-labour-market-through-migration-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"Understanding access to the labour market through migration channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Laure Sandoz<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/1369183X.2018.1502657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/1369183X.2018.1502657<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract test\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">\n<p>The mobility of the \u2018highly skilled\u2019 has become widely researched but only a few researchers have approached this category of migrants from a critical perspective. This article argues that understanding how \u2018highly skilled migrants\u2019 are constructed necessitates considering the conditions in which migration takes place as well as the perceptions and practices associated with these conditions. It uses the concept of \u2018migration channels\u2019 to investigate the enabling and disabling factors associated with different migration situations. The analysis draws on biographic interviews with highly educated migrants in Switzerland, and supplements these with expert interviews and ethnographic observations of people working in institutions that support, guide, or control migrants\u2019 access to the labour market. The article shows that categories of migrants are artificial and often do not coincide with lived realities. Migrants actively develop strategies to achieve their personal aspirations, but they also depend on the opportunities available in their environment. The concept of \u2018migration channels\u2019 enables us to capture this interplay between structures and agency by showing how different actors shape the opportunities and constraints faced by different groups of migrants, and how migrants actively deal with them. This concept thus fosters a critical yet empathic understanding of migration experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"abstractKeywords\">\n<div class=\"hlFld-KeywordText\">KEYWORDS: Highly skilled migrants<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>migration channels<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>labour-market access<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>migration intermediaries<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Laure Sandoz Source : https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/1369183X.2018.1502657 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[285,362,7,9,55,19,83,110,230],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-285","tag-access-to-employment","tag-article","tag-english-language","tag-high-skilled-immigrants","tag-labour-market","tag-labour-market-policy","tag-mobility","tag-pathways"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}