International Labor Migration through Multinational Enterprises

Tzeng, Rueyling

doi:10.1177/019791839502900107

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“…Firstly, as recognized by world city researchers, skilled workers move as part of a tour of duty in transnational corporations (TNCs) (Beaverstock and Smith 1996;Lassen 2006). In order to climb the organizational hierarchy, workers in TNCs (and NGOs) must often fulfill time requirements at offices abroad (Tzeng 1995). Another determinant of highly-skilled migration is based on the individual strategies of migrants.…”

Section: The Mobility Of Highly-skilled Migrantsmentioning

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Migrants, markets and multinationals: competition among world cities for the highly skilled

Ewers

2007

GeoJournal

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Urban areas compete with one another for people, goods, capital, ideas and other inputs of economic activity. Under the rubric of globalization, instead of only maintaining or improving the initial stock of assets in a city, the power of a place to attract outside flows of economic activity from elsewhere is increasingly important to economic development. Similarly, global or world cities are characterized as the command and control points through which these global economic flows operate. In response to the heightened mobility of highly-skilled labor across national borders, research has begun to examine the role of international human capital as an economic flow. This paper will examine the role of places in determining where the highly-skilled go in the global economy by viewing global city command and control functions as requiring unique labor flows. By reviewing the evidence found in the literature, we can better understand the potential for urban areas to compete for highly-skilled labor in the global economy. Known indicators of place attractiveness are assessed to examine the relationship between the economic trajectories of cities and their labor requirements. Cities are situated between firms and states as the key place-based actors which influence the mobility of highly-skilled labor. Finally, the paper also examines measurement issues and methodological problems in creating indices of world cities as well as explores possibilities for new research.

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Section: The Mobility Of Highly-skilled Migrantsmentioning

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Migrants, markets and multinationals: competition among world cities for the highly skilled

Ewers

2007

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“…For example, the Japanese Foreign Ministry (1997) in its annual report on Japanese living abroad records 10,687 Japanese living in Taiwan in 1996, mostly residing there on long-term visas. Research on migration through multinational enterprises based in Taiwan records a doubling of the numbers of expatriates (mainly Japanese) during the five-year study period (Tzeng, 1995), while Hugo (1995) also comments on the very significant scale of skilled immigration to Taiwan from the USA. Kanjanapan (1992) and Tzeng (1995) both identify two kinds of white collar migrants participating in these professional transient flows.…”

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Migration transition or migration transformation in the Asian dragon economies?

Findlay¹,

Jones²,

Davidson

1998

Int J Urban Regional Res

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There has been a marked tendency to interpret the recent transformation of international migration systems in Eastern Asia in terms of a 'migration transition' model. The transition in these countries from net emigration to net immigration, with major inflows from poorer adjacent countries, is seen as being driven by an intricate regional pattern of uneven development but growing economic integration. This paper challenges this view through an examination of the trade, investment and migration linkages of the region's four dragon economies (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan). It argues that the key influences on their international migration streams reflect, above all, the functions of these states as second-order, global city regions. Their place in the global capitalist system creates a shared demand for very particular types of both highly skilled and unskilled labour, but the migration policies of the four states are independently, and therefore distinctively, socially constructed. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1998.

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“…In addition to transfers within the internal labour market of transnational compa nies (Tzeng, 1995), several other migration channels were also shown to be responsible for structuring highly skilled migrant flows around the globe (Gould 1990;. These included transnational family networks, recruitment agencies and inter-institutional exchanges, for example, between universities and between health services in different countries.…”

Section: Literature Stream S Associated W Ith Skilled M Igrationmentioning

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What's in a research agenda? An evaluation of research developments in the arena of skilled international migration

Findlay

Cranston

2015

International Development Planning Review

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What' s in a research agenda? An evaluation of research developments in the arena of skilled international migrationResearch o n skille d in te rn a tio n a l m ig ra tio n has d e v e lo p e d s ig n ific a n tly in th e last 2 5 years. This p a p e r review s pro g re ss in u n d e rs ta n d in g th e stru ctu rin g p o w e r o f tra n s n a tio n a l c o m p a n ie s a n d in te rn a tio n a l re c ru itm e n t a g e n cie s in sh a p in g g lo b a l ta le n t flo w s. It a rg u e s th a t fo u r m a in stran d s in th e research lite ra tu re flo w fro m th is: w o rk in in te rn a tio n a l h u m a n reso u rce m a n a g e m e n t; a n a lysis o f th e m ig ra tio n -d e v e l o p m e n t nexus; studies o f city d e v e lo p m e n t a sso cia te d w ith cre a tiv e k n o w le d g e w o rk e rs ; a n d c u ltu ra l g e o g ra p h ie s o f e x p a tria te id e n titie s. This p a p e r in te rp re ts tre n d s in research o n these to p ic s in re la tio n to th e w id e r issue o f h o w so m e s o cia l scientists ha ve b e c o m e m o re reflexive a b o u t th e ir e n g a g e m e n t w ith research a n d thus have re -p o s itio n e d th e n a tu re o f w h a t is co n s id e re d to be th e c o n te m p o ra ry research a g e n d a o n skille d m ig ra tio n . This re -p o s itio n in g is re c o g n is e d to ha ve strengths b u t a ls o d iffic u ltie s fro m a p o lic y p e rspective.K e yw ords: skille d in te rn a tio n a l m ig ra tio n , g lo b a l ta le n t, m ig ra tio n -d e v e lo p m e n t nexus, e x p a tria te p ra c tice s, im m ig ra tio n p o lic ie s Allan M. Findlay is Professor in the

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International Labor Migration through Multinational Enterprises

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

Migrants, markets and multinationals: competition among world cities for the highly skilled

Migrants, markets and multinationals: competition among world cities for the highly skilled

Migration transition or migration transformation in the Asian dragon economies?

What's in a research agenda? An evaluation of research developments in the arena of skilled international migration

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