High-Skilled Immigration: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract

Recent years have brought a new focus in immigration policies - increasing labour shortages and ageing populations have led advanced industrial countries to engage in a ‘global war for talent’. National governments have subsequently changed their policies in order to attract ‘the best and brightest’, but attempts in the European Union and globally are also visible. However, even high-skilled immigration creates winners and losers. This panel focuses on skilled economic migration and seeks papers with a comparative approach – be it at the national, European or international level. It encourages papers analysing policies from countries of destination and countries of origin, and those dealing with immigration policy outputs or outcomes. The papers should include a strong theoretical emphasis, drawing on the literature from migration studies and the wider political science discipline. Papers with quantitative and qualitative approaches are welcome, and so are contributions from immigration scholars and policy-makers. This panel will offer the opportunity to discuss an upcoming and important subfield in migration studies: high-skilled economic migration.

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