Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent

Anna Boucher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
9780719099458 (ISBN)

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This book analyses the gendered terrain of skilled immigration policies across twelve countries and thirty seven skilled immigration visas. It argues that while skilled immigration policies are often gendered, this outcome is not inevitable and that governments possess considerable scope in policy design. -- .

The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally discriminate on gender grounds. Existing gendered differences in the global labour market related to life course trajectories, pay gaps and gendered divisions in occupational specialisation are also present in skilled immigration selection policies. Presenting the first book-length account of the global race for talent from a gender perspective, Gender, migration and the global race for talent will be read by graduate students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of immigration studies, political science, public policy, sociology and gender studies, and Australian and Canadian studies. -- .

Anna Boucher is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Sydney -- .

Introduction
Part I: The global race for talent: global context
1. Skill and gender: navigating the theoretical terrain
2. Gender awareness of skilled immigration policies across the OECD: presenting the GenderImmi Dataset
Part II: Gendering skilled immigration policy in Australia and Canada, 1988–2013
3. Gendering the policy process: venue shopping and diversity-seeking
4. Changing the mix: the shift from family to skilled immigration, 1988–2003
5. New selection grids: points tests and gender effects, 1993–2003
6. Targeting skills during the global financial crisis, 2007–13: gendered winners and losers?
7. Mining booms and Nanny-Gate: the gendered terrain of temporary economic immigration, 2007–13
8. Activist mobilising, state sponsorship and venue shopping capabilities
Appendix 1. Elite interviews conducted with relevant Australians
Appendix 2. Elite interviews conducted with relevant Canadians
Appendix 3. Methodological appendix and elite interviewing schedule
Bibliography -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2016
Zusatzinfo	Graphs\|Diagrams
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780719099458 / 9780719099458
Zustand	Neuware