High Skill Migration and Recession (eBook)

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.

Laura Bartolini, European University Institute, Italy James Buchan, Queen Margaret University, UK Lucie Cerna, University of Oxford, UK Isabel Craveiro, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Mathias Czaika, University of Oxford, UK Sondra Cuban, Western Washington University, USA Matthew Dixon, University of Oxford, UK Gilles Dussault, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Portugal Carmen González Enríquez, National University of Distance Education, Spain Ruby Gropas, European University Institute, Italy Pawe? Kaczmarczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland Marta Moskal, University of Glasgow, UK Kyoko Shinozaki, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Mikolaj Stanek, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.