Academic Mobility and Migration: What We Know and What We Do Not Know

Teichler, Ulrich

doi:10.1017/s1062798714000787

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“…While their social background provides sufficient resources to embark in student migration to Switzerland, the Swiss migration regime might offset these privileges after graduation. Establishing the importance and evolution of international student migration to Switzerland is no easy task, since the category "foreign students" includes people with very different life histories (Teichler 2015). In Switzerland, the literature has been particularly interested in the educational accomplishments of second-generation immigrants from European countries (Fibbi, Kaya, and Piguet 2003;Griga 2014), i.e.…”

Section: International Student Mobility From Non-eu Countries In Switmentioning

confidence: 99%

The transnational education to employment transition: Peruvian women and men professional and family trajectories in Switzerland

Seminario¹

2019

Journal of International Mobility

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Drawing on a life-course perspective, this paper focuses on the analysis of the transnational education to employment transitions that particularly shows the interdependence of professional and family trajectories in a migration context. I focus on Peruvian migration to study in a Swiss Higher Education institution and subsequent job-hunting in the Swiss labour market; and link them with transnational family configurations. I present two types of life-courses found among highly skilled Peruvian men and women: the concordance or discordance between education credentials and current employment conditions. Although many studies have emphasised the problems of validating foreign degrees as the greatest barrier for highly skilled foreigners, I argue that having a Swiss degree does not automatically guarantee adequate employment for Peruvian men and women in Switzerland. The findings clearly stress the ambivalent role of Swiss degrees for migrants, as well as, the heterogeneous impact of partnership and parenthood. These processes can be explained by different opportunities and limitations based on fields of qualification and dynamic gender normativity in couple's negotiations and employeremployee relations.

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Section: International Student Mobility From Non-eu Countries In Switmentioning

confidence: 99%

The transnational education to employment transition: Peruvian women and men professional and family trajectories in Switzerland

Seminario¹

2019

Journal of International Mobility

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“…Previous research focused on the spouse's role in academic mobility and international student migration (Bordoloi, 2015;Schaer, Dahinden, & Toader, 2016), and on the impact of binational marriages on highly skilled non-EU women's careers (Raghuram, 2004;Riaño, 2011). International student migration has also received increased attention from various scholars (King & Raghuram, 2013;Teichler, 2015), for instance regarding the legal situations and employment of foreign graduates (Hawthorne & To, 2014;Mosneaga & Winther, 2013;Suter & Jandl, 2008). While interdependencies of family and professional trajectories for highly skilled migrants have been increasingly analysed (Geddie, 2013;Varrel, 2011), research on the role of binational marriages in foreign graduates' employment transitions in the host country is rather scarce (Fleischer, 2011).…”

Section: Gender Norms In Binational Marriage: Mediation Of Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Femininities and masculinities in highly skilled migration: Peruvian graduates’ narratives of employment transitions and binational marriages in Switzerland

Seminario

2018

Migrat. Lett.

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Biographic research about migrant’s gender identities grasps tendencies of normativity change chronologically and transnationally. Transition to employment stories of Peruvian graduates from Swiss universities evoke continuities and changes in femininities and masculinities from Peru to Switzerland. Binational marriages that mediate employment transition after graduation play an ambivalent role in the attainment of jobs commensurate to skills. Career, partner, and care are key elements of transgressing and reinforcing non/hegemonic masculinities and un/desirable femininities from super scientist women to failing male breadwinners. Feminization of highly skilled migration from Peru is linked to urban middle classes where femininities are increasingly based on career advancement. However, these professional-oriented femininities might be neutralized in favour of care-oriented femininities from family models in Switzerland. While Peruvian female graduates constructed an ideal of care/career integration predominantly, male counterparts emphasized the risk of career success at the expense of partnership.

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“…In the article "Academic Mobility and Migration: What We Know and Do not Know" written by Teichler (2015), the author claims that although internationalization of the scientific world is a key issue in public attention and policy, the actual information base on migration and mobility of "teachers in higher education", "scholars", "academics" or "researchers" has remained weak. Most available statistics focus on "foreign" students or "foreign" scholars rather than persons mobile for academic and scientific purposes and provide information only on a single moment rather than on the life course of moving between countries.…”

Section: Analysis Of Foreign Resourcesmentioning

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Formation of Academic Mobility of Future Foreign Language Teachers by Means of Media Education Technologies

Wang

Gorbunova²,

Masalimova

et al. 2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The relevance of research: Modern transformations in society and education pay special attention to the increase of the quality of teaching staff training, making new requests for competitive specialists in the world labor-market. According to the demands of educational laws and regulations, modern teacher is meant to be competent in his own sphere of work, have a number of professional skills, be flexible and mobile, be capable to work efficiently in compliance with international standards, be prepared for professional and personal growth. At the same time, an increased competition at the world labor-market requires new approaches to training future teachers with regard to increased demands for the specialists who are capable to adapt to modern world standards. The purpose of the research: The purpose of this research is to identify efficient forms and means of academic mobility of future foreign language teachers. Research methods: The leading research method that tests hypothesis is pedagogical experiment (ascertaining, forming and control stages of experiment) and also the method of processing of quantitative results of the research. 270 future foreign language teachers took part in the experimental research where 138 respondents belonged to an experimental group and 132 future teachers belonged to a control group. Results of the research: the model of formation of academic mobility of future foreign language teachers was designed and scientifically grounded. Formation of academic mobility is implemented by means of media-education technologies, methodological principles which include systemic, competency-based, synergetic, student-oriented approach and the following principles such as humanization, viability, self-education, succession, continuity, dialogism. The proposed model was realized in three stages (motivational-cognitive, organizational-action-based, professionalcommunicative) and provided for gradual acquisition by future educators the motivation for academic migration and their ability to master their foreign language communicative competence. The purpose of the above mentioned model is to develop such personal qualities which will contribute to students' readiness to get education in foreign educational environment. The result of the realization of the model is the formation of the academic mobility of foreign language teachers on a creative level. Relevance of the research: The efficiency of the proposed model of formation of academic mobility of future foreign language teachers by means of media education technologies has been proved and confirmed by the statistics of the experiment. Materials of the article can be useful for students, teachers of educational institutions of higher education, foreign language teachers who write projects, course works, qualifying projects and other types of scientific works. Wang & Gorbunova / Academic Mobility of Future Foreign Language Teachers 960

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Academic Mobility and Migration: What We Know and What We Do Not Know

Cited by 148 publications

References 29 publications

The transnational education to employment transition: Peruvian women and men professional and family trajectories in Switzerland

The transnational education to employment transition: Peruvian women and men professional and family trajectories in Switzerland

Femininities and masculinities in highly skilled migration: Peruvian graduates’ narratives of employment transitions and binational marriages in Switzerland

Formation of Academic Mobility of Future Foreign Language Teachers by Means of Media Education Technologies

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