The Migration of Highly Educated Turkish Citizens to Europe: From Guestworkers to Global Talent

ISBN-13: 9781472479358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 158 str.

Zeynep Yanasmayan

Opis

The increasing global competition of knowledge economies has begun a new era of labour migration, as economies chase 'the best and the brightest' the movement of highly skilled workers. This book examines the experiences of highly educated migrants, subjected to two distinct and incompatible public discourses: one that identifies them in terms of nationality and presupposed religion, and another that focuses on their education and employment status, which highlights their contribution to host societies and suggests that they deserve the best treatment from societies engaged in the global 'race for talent'. Presenting new empirical research collected in the UK, the Netherlands and Spain amongst highly educated migrants from Turkey, the author draws on their narratives to address the question of whether such migrants should be apprehended any differently from their predecessors who moved to Europe as 'guestworkers' in the twentieth century. With attention to the reasons for which highly skilled workers choose to migrate and then stay (or not) in their host countries, their connection to their home nation and the ways in which they meet the challenges of integration - in part by way of their position in relation to other migrants - their acquisition of citizenship and the decision concerning naturalisation in the host country, The Migration of Highly Educated Turkish Citizens to Europe offers insights on an under-research trend in the field of migration. As such, it will appeal to scholars in the fields of sociology and political science with interests in migration and mobility, ethnicity and integration.

O autorze

Zeynep Yanasmayan is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. Her research interests include migration and citizenship studies, governance of religious diversity, and law and society. She has previously published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Citizenship Studies and Turkish Studies, and is co-editor of Belief, Law and Politics: What Future for Secular Europe?