The role of language skills in the settling-in process – experiences of highly skilled migrants’ accompanying partners in Germany and the UK

Föbker, Stefanie; Imani, Daniela

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1314596

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“…Furthermore, she begins her paper with an autobiographical example of how work placement with a particular employer shapes a skilled migrant's experiences. In Föbker and Imani (2017)'s paper gendered experiences of mobility are an important topic, but they show that the linked lives of the male partners they accompany are crucial, and so is the labour market because it does not require that the working partner speaks the language of the host country. Grigoleit-Richter (2017) mainly addresses gender, but also the 'gendered and ethnicised conditions of Germany's technology sector'.…”

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“…The second paper by Föbker and Imani (2017) takes up the issue of female tied movers and their strategies to settle in after migration. Their empirical work is situated in the concept of cultural capital and its conversion in the host country setting.…”

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“…It brings together seven papers that deal with skilled migration. The papers by Leung (2017), Föbker and Imani (2017), Grigoleit-Richter (2017) and Roohi (2017) are most closely related to the theme of gender, identity and social inequality. The papers by Kirk, Bal, and Janssen (2017) and Kõu, Mulder, and Bailey (2017) fit best under the theme of life courses and linked lives.…”

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2017

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“…Chiswick (1978) suggested that migrants sometimes lack specific skills, which leads to migrant (self-)selection into low-skilled jobs and cohort effects. Volume 7 | Issue 2 | Additionally, both migrants (Chiswick, Rebhun and Beider, 2016) and their families (Föbker and Imani, 2017) face language barriers in host countries. Another type of barrier relates to the national orientation of the educational systems, leading to the question of transferability of qualifications (Chapman and Iredale, 1993).These obstacles imply higher financial costs of integration, which mostly lead to an increased burden for the host country welfare system.…”

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Labour Market Transition Differences between Natives and Immigrants in EU Economies

Botrić¹

2018

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The recent economic crisis has had an adverse effect on the labour markets of European economies and certain population groups have been disproportionally affected by it. Increased migration flows may very well have created further pressures on the labour markets of host countries. The focus of the analysis here is on differences in transitions from unemployment to employment and vice versa between native and immigrant populations in European economies during the 1998-2015 period. The analysis reveals different outcomes to transitions from unemployment to employment, where in certain countries and years, the unemployed natives find proportionally more jobs, while in other countries and years, it is the immigrants. In most of the countries, however, employed immigrants are more likely to lose a job than natives. In addition to identifying the immigrant-native gap, the characteristics of individuals as potential contributing factors to the gap have also been assessed. The results of this analysis show that similar individual characteristics exert a different influence on the immigrant-native gap in labour market outcomes in different countries. Thus, similar individual characteristics are rewarded differently in different countries, i.e., their labour markets.

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“…Among academic migrant, tied movers are usually also highly skilled. Usually they are confronted with downward class mobility when their (male) partners lead a move, if occupation is used as a proxy (see also Föbker and Imani 2017). But before we make a classical 'brain waste' conclusion, I will provide the narrative from Citra, wife of an Indonesian scholar.…”

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Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

Leung

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Geographic mobility is increasingly perceived worldwide as a key to academic excellence, career advancement and upward social mobility. Drawing on long-term qualitative fieldwork data, this paper interrogates the impact of academic mobility in reconfiguring class and gender identities among students, early professionals and their families from Hong Kong and Indonesia who have studied or received further training in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. This analysis problematises the crude 'academic mobility → upward social mobility' formula and considers international academic mobility as a contextual, dynamic and multi-directional process. Through this process social positions and identities of the moving individuals and families are negotiated in an on-going manner as migrants insert into, depart from and re-insert into the various social milieus where their mobility trajectories touch ground. Narratives of interviewees illustrate the complexity and contradictions in class and gender configurations as students move across borders. They show how these individuals are inserted in contrasting social positionings, and experience how a particular social class or gender position carries different connotations. The paper concludes with a few conceptual and methodological reflections.

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The role of language skills in the settling-in process – experiences of highly skilled migrants’ accompanying partners in Germany and the UK

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

Highly skilled migration between the Global North and South: gender, life courses and institutions

Highly skilled migration between the Global North and South: gender, life courses and institutions

Labour Market Transition Differences between Natives and Immigrants in EU Economies

Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

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