Essays on attracting and retaining highly educated migrants

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Blijfkansen van afgestudeerde internationale studenten uit het Nederlandse hoger onderwijs en hun impact op arbeidsmarktramingen

“…In een Europese overzichtsstudie wijst Weisser (2016) bovendien op de taalkundige en culturele nabijheid van een land, maar ook de algehele institutionele kwaliteit, stabiliteit en toegankelijkheid als bepalend voor blijfkansen. De relatie tussen baankansen en taalvaardigheid kan echter verschillen per beroepssector, organisatie en regio (Cörvers et al 2021;Reinold 2023).…”

“…Ook kan de mate waarin het beheersen van het Nederlands noodzakelijk is voor baankansen regionaal verschillen, bijvoorbeeld door de regionale sectorsamenstelling. Zo is het spreken van Nederlands in de zorg meestal van groter belang dan in de ICT-sector(Cörvers et al 2021) en vraagt het op Nederland georiënteerde midden-en kleinbedrijf (MKB) vaker om Nederlandse taalvaardigheid van internationale werknemers dan internationaal opererende bedrijven(Reinold 2023).…”

“If you smile, they smile”: Explaining highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine

“…This serves as a basis to develop our conceptual framework about how migrants' feelings of being welcome are shaped by the host country's perceived institutional and societal incorporation capacity as well as the migrants' personal incorporation capacity (see Figure 1). 5 1 This study builds on earlier research on "Highly educated migrants' perceptions of the Euregional welcoming culture", which was commissioned by the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) in the framework of the INTERREG-V-A project youRegion (Reinold, 2021). The EMR is an interesting case study because of ongoing efforts to create a euregional welcome culture for high-skilled migrants.…”

“…An institutional welcoming culture is defined as a top-down approach to increase openness and tolerance towards migrants among the population. The usual focus on high-skilled migrants highlights the utilitarian nature of this type of welcoming culture, which is motivated by the host country's self-interest to harness the economic benefits of attracting and retaining high-skilled migrants (Föbker et al, 2014;Gill, 2018;Hamann & Karakayali, 2016;Imani et al, 2015;Kösemen, 2017;Reinold, 2021). High-skilled migrants are known for being amongst the most mobile individuals, who often remain in the host country for a limited period (Weinar & Klekowski van Koppenfels, 2020) and who have a "pragmatic relationship to places" (Plöger & Becker, 2015, p. 1521.…”

“…Welcoming migrants means more than just granting them residence permits, but relies upon "human warmth" (Gill, 2018, p. 91). On a local level, political efforts to create a welcoming culture often include services to support the migration and settling-in process (Föbker et al, 2014) and the organisation of welcome events to facilitate networking and getting to know the new place of residence (Reinold, 2021). Accordingly, creating a welcoming environment is especially important for the reception of newly arrived migrants and their initial experiences in the host country and should not be confused with migrant integration.…”