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Yeoh, Brenda S. A.; Eng, Lai Ah

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“…Defining talent in migration beyond binary categories also has consequences for the measurement and building of composite indicators, which other contributions of this special issue aim to highlight. In a related work, Koser and Salt (, p. 287) argue that the difference between the highly skilled and “talent” may actually be far more difficult to distinguish simply based on occupational identifiers as it has been suggested in migration studies (see, for example, Cerna, ; Kapur & McHale, ); this is because “many graduates are not employed in jobs requiring high‐level expertise” (Yeoh & Lai, , p. 235). While more targeted, Shachar and Hirschl’s () study on “super talents” similarly reflects an academic interest in delineating “talent” from others.…”

Section: Findings: Defining “Talent” In the Migration And Management mentioning

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“…• consistently indicate high competence in areas of activity that strongly suggest transferable, comparable ability in situations where they have yet to be tested and proved to be highly effective, i.e., potential" (p. 35) Talent is considered to be, variously, high ability, giftedness and/or high potential Talent as qualities These abilities can be measured through demonstrable track record, and unproven but suspected potential Yeoh and Lai (2008) Migration-Geography "Talent" is broadly understood as a resource that adds value to the higher ends of the economic chain, as it combines education, knowledge, skills and creativity and spans various fields, including entrepreneurship, education, research and development, services and creative industries Talent as qualities Highly mobile skilled workers such as business creators, technical experts, technology innovators, health professionals, and those in scientific, educational and cultural sectors (based on Solimano, 2008) Sources: Authors, inspired by Gallardo-Gallardo et al (2013, p. 291) and Gallardo-Gallardo and Thunissen (2016).…”

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“…In these instances, “talent” is broadly understood as a resource that adds value to the higher ends of the economic chain, as it combines education, knowledge, skills, creativity, and spans various fields, including entrepreneurship, education, research and development, services, and creative industries (cf. Papademetriou et al, ; Yeoh & Lai, ).…”

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Defining “Talent”: Insights from Management and Migration Literatures for Policy Design

Černá¹,

Chou²

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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Taking the case of defining “talent,” a term that has been widely used but its definitions differ by discipline, organization, policy sector, as well as over time, we demonstrate how the basic definition of a policy subject may affect policy design and the assessment of policy outcomes. We review how “talent” is defined in two sets of literature, talent management and migration studies, and find that definitions fall under one of two categories: binary (“talent” as qualities) or composite (“talent” as a relational concept). The implications of our findings are epistemological and ontological; the findings point to diverse epistemological effects of definitions through developments of indicators, as expected, and they also reveal the policy designers’ ontological starting points. Ontological perspectives are significant because they ultimately determine whether the policy assessments carried out differ in degrees or in kind. In the case of defining “talent,” this means determining which objectives the designers would set (e.g., recruiting vs. cultivating vs. introducing competition), the policy instrumentation for achieving the goals (migration measures vs. education vs. lifelong learning vs. human resource policy), and the type of assessment for measuring policy outcomes (single vs. multiple indicators, qualitative vs. quantitative).

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Defining “Talent”: Insights from Management and Migration Literatures for Policy Design

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Chou²

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Yet, scholars have also cautioned against an overly optimistic interpretation of how academics overseas can contribute to their countries of origin. Similar to the issues besetting return migration, migrant faculty who wish to engage in collaborative projects or short‐term visits within their countries of origin can face a lack of support from local state officials, fears of persecution, or frustrating bureaucracies within local institutions (Teferra, ; Yeoh and Eng, ). Non‐migrant academics can also become resentful of the benefits that their overseas counterparts receive from the state, thus fuelling possible conflict between local and international collaborators (Altbach, ; Ortiga, ).…”

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Academic “Centres,” Epistemic Differences and Brain Circulation

Ortiga

Chou

Sondhi

et al. 2017

International Migration

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This article investigates the factors that shape how migrant academics engage with fellow scholars within their countries of origin. We focus specifically on the mobility of Asian‐born faculty between Singapore, a fast‐developing education hub in Southeast Asia, and their “home” countries within the region. Based on qualitative interviews with 45 migrant academics, this article argues that while education hubs like Singapore increase the possibility of brain circulation within Asia, epistemic differences between migrant academics and home country counterparts make it difficult to establish long‐term collaboration for research. Singapore institutions also look to the West in determining how research work is assessed for tenure and promotion, encouraging Singapore‐based academics to focus on networking with colleagues and peers based in the US and Europe rather than those based in origin countries. Such conditions undermine the positive impact of academic mobility between Singapore and surrounding countries within the region.

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“…Thus, diverse experiences of migrants with different qualifications can potentially lead to a diversity of experiences (see e.g. Lowell & Batalova, 2005;Rizvi, 2005b;Yeoh & Eng, 2008). Further, some of these studies examine the employment of migrants who have received their educational credentials in countries other than the country of immigration.…”

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Transnational mobilities of Australia-educated and domiciled professional migrants from Vietnam

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Within a global discourse of increasing human capital for competitive advantage, skilled migration following international education -known as two-step migration -has been used by governments as a human capacity building strategy. In government-commissioned reports and studies, the dominant use of economic frameworks describes two-step migrants as rational choice makers. Such approaches have the effect of disembodying transnational mobilities as homogeneous 'brain flows' across borders. In contrast, migrants have their own pursuits and experience circumstances affecting their subjectivities in transnational mobilities. By building on extant research on transnationalism, this thesis provides a more holistic picture of education-related and professional migration. It acknowledges the embodiment of transnational mobilities through the relational aspects of migrants' everyday lives, from forming decisions to migrate, to relocating to the host society and planning for the future. Therefore, understanding the relationality of transnational mobilities requires researchers to attend to skilled migrants' engagement with the world across multiple spaces and temporalities.In this study, I examine education-related migration from Vietnam to Australia, portrayed in policy discourse as a human capacity building strategy (Vietnam), and a dual national project of education Negotiation of transnational mobilities by the participants is explored in four major areas: decisions to migrate, relocation experiences, work and life aspirations, and uses of transnational ties. Drawing on Heidegger's phenomenology, I examine these four areas using the concept of being-in-the-world in terms of these migrants' interactions with others and things, the ways they followed and/or broke with public norms, as well as what mattered to them in their mobilities in relation to the surrounding world.ii This thesis contributes further understandings and elaborates distinctive features of two-step migration from Vietnam to Australia in place of earlier research which has analysed Asian migratory flows. The concept of being-in-the-world enables me to argue that two-step migrants from Vietnam in Australia negotiate transnational mobilities through their embeddedness in the socio-political, economic, educational and cultural structures in both countries in relation to their personal concerns and circumstances. Thus, I challenge the assumptions present in 'race for talent' policies that disembody professional migrants as homogeneous flows of human capital from one nation to another. Exploring migrants' entwinement with the world in intersecting domains enables me to add nuances to previous understandings of binaries in migration, including 'routes' and 'roots', agency and structure, and spatiality and temporality. I also extend my critique to approaches adopted in skilled migration research that examine separate influences from migrants' interactions with the world on their negotiations of mobilities.By re-conceptualising transnational mobilities as...

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Guest Editors’ Introduction

Cited by 29 publications

References 15 publications

Defining “Talent”: Insights from Management and Migration Literatures for Policy Design

Defining “Talent”: Insights from Management and Migration Literatures for Policy Design

Academic “Centres,” Epistemic Differences and Brain Circulation

Transnational mobilities of Australia-educated and domiciled professional migrants from Vietnam

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