Highly Skilled Migrant and Non-Migrant Women and Men: How Do Differences in Quality of Employment Arise?

Riaño, Yvonne

doi:10.3390/admsci11010005

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“…Extant literature shows that female migrants in the family context tend to be invisible (Filippi & Guarna, 2018). This means their need for integration and their potential skills contribution in the host country are often overlooked (Riaño, 2021). The skills that are not utilised or underutilised represent a waste that may weaken the economic benefits of migration (OECD/ILO, 2016).…”

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A framework for the labour market integration of female accompanying spouses in South Africa

Zinatsa

Saurombe²

2022

SA j. ind. psychol.

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Orientation: The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda highlights that migration is key to inclusive growth and economic development. For economic development to be realised, the full integration of skilled migrants into the labour market is essential.Research purpose: This research aimed at exploring the labour market experiences and self-initiated strategies of accompanying spouses, also referred to as tied migrants, in their attempt to achieve labour market integration (LMI) in South Africa.Motivation for the study: Skilled migration of tied migrants remains understudied in the Global South context. Thus, this study sought to fill this gap.Research approach/design and method: The study used a qualitative research approach to interrogate the experiences of accompanying spouses in South Africa. Thirteen one-on-one interviews were conducted, each lasting for 1.5 h on average. Thematic analysis was applied to the data.Main findings: Self-initiated strategies that reflect agency and a pushback on governing technologies by accompanying spouses can facilitate integration into the South African labour market. However, these strategies do not guarantee full LMI. The broad exclusionary context, premised on ethnicised rationalities that characterise the South African labour market, makes full LMI difficult to achieve, particularly in the absence of support for integration.Practical/managerial implications: This study makes practical contributions by making policy recommendations which consider the global agenda for women, especially concerning gender equality and empowerment.Contribution/value-add: Skilled migration in the global south remains significantly under-researched and there is evidence of significant gaps in literature particularly pertaining to migration by skilled women migrants. This research contributes to bridging this gap.

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A framework for the labour market integration of female accompanying spouses in South Africa

Zinatsa

Saurombe²

2022

SA j. ind. psychol.

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“…Research evidences the interplay of multiple and important barriers among university-educated migrant women and insecure conditions to validate professional degrees in the countries of destination (Christiansen and Kristjánsdóttir 2022;Kofman 2012;Liversage 2009;Rodríguez and Scurry 2014). In addition, the gendered division of labour in the family sphere has a significant impact on their employment opportunities (Föbker 2019;De Miguel et al 2015;Mulholland and Ryan 2014;Seminario and Le Feuvre 2021;Riaño 2021). As this body of research confirms, the interaction of contexts and barriers influences women's agency and their insertion into the labour market.…”

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confidence: 75%

Highly Educated Women: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Labour Integration in an Emotional Migratory Process

Maiztegui Oñate,

Di Martino,

Aristegui

2023

Social Sciences

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This article explores the barriers and the strategies of a group of highly educated foreign women to obtain a job-education matching situation in the Basque Country (Spain) where they all permanently settled following a binational heterosexual marriage. Drawing on 21 biographical interviews with women from Latin America and Europe, we examine new perspectives on the complexity and fluidity between their professional pathways and family projects. For that, we apply an intersectional lens to analyse their life experience. Our results show that respondents involved in a feminised labour market (education and health) have fewer difficulties to find a job-education match. In other cases, becoming self-employed is a way to gain independence and flexibility by running an open market-oriented business. Interviewees identified language, lack of personal networks, family reconciliation, traditional gender roles and the transferring of cultural capital as the main barriers for their incorporation into the labour market. The study finds that marriage support is not enough to overcome the barriers. We argue that for a more comprehensive understanding of labour integration of highly educated migrant women, motivation and agency, linked to family support, should be considered factors to cope with structural inequalities.

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“…In the country from which workforce outflows, unemployment falls, and wages rise, monetary assets are received from individuals who found employment abroad. In a country receiving immigrants, they limit wage increases; they take on many onerous works performed in worse conditions, which natives of that country are unwilling to undertake (Gosh, 1996;Riaño, 2021;Ricci, Crivellaro, and Bolzani, 2021).…”

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Migration and Sustainable Development: The Use of Ukrainian Workers’ Potential on the Polish Labour Market

Włodarczyk¹

2021

ERSJ

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Purpose: This paper features a case of using the potential brought in by workers from Ukraine who arrived in Poland. The paper's main objective involves assessing the evolution of Ukrainian citizens' potential by Polish employers and proposing recommendations for steps to be taken in the future by local governments and individual employers about the employment of immigrants from Ukraine to fulfill the assumptions of sustainable development. Design/Methodology/Approach: The presented article features both theoretical considerations and the results of the author's research. For these deliberations, the results of the author's research were used (in the form of a diagnostic survey) conducted between 03.2019 and 04.2020 among the citizens of Ukraine who resided in Poland. Findings: The analysis of the conducted study allows claiming that the potential of migrants from Ukraine is not fully utilized to fulfill the current needs of the Polish labor market. Practical Implications: The conclusion after analyzing the gathered theoretical and empirical material, demonstrating the need to undertake and devise an entire set of actions in order to implement the sustainable development in the operation of Polish companies and, in particular, to use the capabilities of the incoming workers. Such actions ought to be conducted both at the level of organizations, at a local level, and the level of the entire economy. Originality/Value: The conducted research may be treated as a pilot study to research the issue further.

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Highly Skilled Migrant and Non-Migrant Women and Men: How Do Differences in Quality of Employment Arise?

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

A framework for the labour market integration of female accompanying spouses in South Africa

A framework for the labour market integration of female accompanying spouses in South Africa

Highly Educated Women: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Labour Integration in an Emotional Migratory Process

Migration and Sustainable Development: The Use of Ukrainian Workers’ Potential on the Polish Labour Market

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