Essays about: "skilled migrants"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 essays containing the words skilled migrants.

  1. 1. Social Capital Theory and Highly-Skilled Female Migrants in the Swedish Workplace : A Qualitative Analysis

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Chloe Barbarich; [2023]
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    Abstract : Sweden continues to prioritise highly-skilled migration while restricting low-skilled migration, idealising the highly-skilled migrant as being easier to integrate into the labour market and into Swedish society at large. This project answers to these assumptions by investigating the lived experiences of highly-skilled female migrants in Sweden through the lens of social capital theory. READ MORE

  3. 2. Second Home, New Home

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Minghui Li; [2023]
    Keywords : urban village; urban regeneration; informal employment migrants; public space;

    Abstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE

  4. 3. Migration and labor market outcomes: a female perspective : A study on the impacts of the presence of female immigrants on native female employment rates through the skill channel.

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Alba Ruiz Casas; [2023]
    Keywords : Migration; employment; females; Europe;

    Abstract : Human migration is a phenomenon which has historically generated different responses and concerns among the inhabitants of host territories. Part of said concerns are related to the idea which holds immigrants accountable of decreases in the employment of natives. READ MORE

  5. 4. VFR Leisure Experiences of Italians and Chinese in Sweden  : A New Study Approach to Migrants’ Personal Networks Influence on Place Participation During (im)mobility Times

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Sara Fiorella Viviana Licata; [2022]
    Keywords : Highly skilled migrants; Chinese; Italians; Sweden; Personal networks; Immobility; VFR tourism; Place participation; Multicultural societies;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the Visit Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism experiences of highly skilled first-generation Italians and Chinese in Sweden. It focuses on personal networks influence on migrant hosts’ interaction and participation in the place and how the Covid-19 global immobility has changed the dynamics and the feelings towards the place. READ MORE

  6. 5. Self-Selection and Wage Consequences among Undocumented Central American Migrants in the United States - The Case of Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, and Salvadorian Migrants

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Beyhan Vurgun; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration; NACARA; Nicaragua; Guatemala; El Salvador; United States; Self-Selection; Wages; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : After the U.S. intervention, civil wars, and growing violence during the late 20th century, migration from the Central American countries to the U.S. READ MORE