Rethinking knowledge and skills in migration: A spatial–temporal perspective

Migrant workers' employment pathways are mainly analysed by observing their behaviour in receiving societies.In dialogue with critical studies of mobility, migration, and skill, we argue that the 'transnational mixed embeddedness' approach, used to analyse migrant businesses, should extend to include migrant workers.Based on multi-sited ethnography, we discuss the phenomenon of Chinese migrant workers in Italy who exploit the transnationally embedded opportunities to access training courses in China.We discuss the transnational workers' agency in circumnavigating socially constructed notions of training and skill, and stress the transformative logic of the migrant trajectories as transnational mobility influences the trainees' perspectives.

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The making of a skilled worker: the transnational mixed embeddedness of migrant workers

Ceccagno

Gao

2022

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Rethinking knowledge and skills in migration: A spatial–temporal perspective

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The making of a skilled worker: the transnational mixed embeddedness of migrant workers

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