Migration and Social Pathways

Guhlich, Anna

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“…Previous migration experiences and cultural norms, for instance, have been seen to be supporting narratives in their migration trajectories. Highly educated migrants move to enhance human capital accumulation and welfare improvement (Engbersen, 2012; Guhlich, 2017). This study found that many informants have previous migration experience before moving to Sorong, mainly for pursuing tertiary education.…”

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“Move backward to make a step forward”: Understanding the migration of the highly educated to Sorong City, West Papua, Indonesia

Malamassam

Hidayati

Setiawan

et al. 2021

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Highly educated people are mainly concentrated in big cities or metropolitan areas. However, some of them choose to move to less developed regions. Using information from in-depth interviews of 15 highly educated migrants that recently moved to Sorong City, a small city in easternmost Indonesia, this study examines the narratives behind their spatial movements. The findings show that promising career development is a critical factor in their migration decision-making process. Although most of them faced difficulties with the limited living amenities in Sorong city, the migrants managed to improve their employability and accelerate their social mobility. However, some migrants expressed their intentions to remigrate from the city in the future. This situation indicates the lack of migrants’ social integration and the challenges in the human capital accumulation in the region.

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“Move backward to make a step forward”: Understanding the migration of the highly educated to Sorong City, West Papua, Indonesia

Malamassam

Hidayati

Setiawan

et al. 2021

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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“…Every interview was transcribed verbatim and subsequently coded (Kvale, 2007). Unlike quantitative studies, which tend to pass over biography work and underestimate the ‘human face’ of highly skilled migrants (Ryan & Mulholland, 2014), this study focuses on the life stories of international scholars and policymakers (Guhlich, 2017; Kreber & Hounsell, 2014).…”

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Academic Migration to Poland: Policies and Paradoxes

Łuczaj

2022

Science, Technology and Society

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The skill-attracting policies encouraging the internationalisation of higher education are compatible with a modernisation discourse, at the heart of which lies a belief that international researchers are highly embedded super-achievers allured by targeted policies. By focusing on the life stories of foreign-born scholars working in Poland (100 in-depth interviews), and Polish department heads (20 interviews) this article revealed three paradoxes that should never have come to be according to the Western modernisation paradigm. The first paradox is related to the expectation that policies targeted at incoming scholars should be the first and foremost enticement for international scholars. The second paradox stems from the fact that some internationally mobile academics representing the humanities and social sciences—in their biographical narratives—highly criticise current academic policies focused on internationalisation. The third paradox is related to the fact that, counterintuitively, less embedded academic migrants perform better. This is an outcome of the life strategy of top-performing scholars, who decide to work in Poland only upon receiving a prestigious and temporary, often EU-funded, scholarship (e.g., Marie Curie). Building on the empirical material from Poland, this article introduces a new notion—the ‘internationalisation against the grain’ to embrace the paradoxes of internationalisation from many peripheral countries.

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Migration and Social Pathways

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“Move backward to make a step forward”: Understanding the migration of the highly educated to Sorong City, West Papua, Indonesia

“Move backward to make a step forward”: Understanding the migration of the highly educated to Sorong City, West Papua, Indonesia

Academic Migration to Poland: Policies and Paradoxes

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