This essay examines the trajectories of skilled labor migrants within a global South-North migration matrix using an interdisciplinary framework. Focusing on Nigeria's huge brain drain phenomenon, the essay draws from the limited available data on the field, interpreting those data through theoretical perspectives from postcolonial studies, Marxism, cultural studies, and human geography. The study spotlights the example of the United States of America as a receptacle of skilled migrants and raises questions of social justice along the North-South divide. The research demonstrates that contrary to the dominant image promoted by some elements in the Western media of migrants as irritants or criminals who disturb well-cultivated, advanced World economies and social spaces, 1 those nations benefit highly from Africa's (and other migrant countries') labor diasporas, especially the highly skilled professionals.
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Tracking Skilled Diasporas
Globalization, Brain Drain, and the Postcolonial Condition in Nigeria
Nduka Otiono
Waves of Dispossession
The Conversion of Land and Labor in Bali’s Recent History
Anette Fagertun
, and exploitative forms of work ( Breman and van der Linden 2014: 924 ; Fagertun 2017b ). The direction of tourism development today toward luxury hotels, spas, and exclusive attractions increases the demand for skilled labor, yet most of the low
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 108–125 (18 total)
Apprenticeship and Learning by Doing
The Role of Privileged Enclaves in Early Modern French Cities
Jeff Horn
that only rarely did they pay even modest fees. 5 Nor did their “apprenticeship” last very long because there was tremendous demand for productive, skilled labor in this rapidly growing city. Bordeaux's guild masters mobilized their political muscle to
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- Research Article
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- 97–113 (17 total)
Enforcing Apartheid?
The Politics of “Intolerability” in the Danish Migration and Integration Regimes
Julia Suárez-Krabbe and Annika Lindberg
group consists of foreigners who are favored because of Denmark's unmet need for specialists and other types of skilled labor, whereas the third group includes refugees, particular groups of migrants from the Global South arriving in Denmark until the
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 90–97 (8 total)
The Dialectical Identity of Eastern Germans
Joyce Marie Mushaben
unemployment rate for fifteen-twenty-four year-olds was 28 percent, 57 percent for those who had not completed their training. 22 Ironically, the eastern states now face a significant skilled-labor shortage, still due to a lack of major capital investment in
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 55–71 (17 total)
Introduction
Precarious Connections: On the Promise and Menace of Railroad Projects
Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk
definitely include Edelman's eloquent ethnographic account about shunters’ work in a contemporary railroad yard in Sweden. 40 Running a railroad requires more than physical infrastructures and technologies. First and foremost, it requires skilled labor by
Moving on
Italy as a stepping stone in migrants’ imaginaries
Anna Tuckett
Southern European countries, migrants are ambiguously viewed as “useful invaders” ( Ambrosini 1999 ). Unlike in some Northern European countries, such as Denmark and the Netherlands, where many migrants have fulfilled a demand for high-skilled labor
An Inconvenient Expertise
French Colonial Sailors and Technological Knowledge in the Union Française
Minayo Nasiali
World War II, however, many in the industry claimed that African sailors did not have the aptitude for more skilled labor and therefore their place in the changing maritime economy was tenuous at best. But in the 1950s, African sailors facing
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- Research Article
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- 117–138 (22 total)
Bridging “green” asymmetries through crises
How a Chinese green bond has landed in Portugal
Giulia Dal Maso
producers ( Christophers 2016 ; Knuth 2018 ). As the story goes, the West holds all the high technology and expertise, China boasts cheap and skilled labor, which makes it a giant energy-manufacturing leader and net exporter. Despite its focus in the last
Book Reviews
Helga Druxes, Christopher Thomas Goodwin, Catriona Corke, Carol Hager, Sabine von Mering, Randall Newnham, and Jeff Luppes
regions. At the same time, German youth look outward, and local firms recruit skilled labor from abroad. Infrastructure—this category includes Strukturpolitik , defined as “a mandate for policies designed to shape and influence the structure of the
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Book Review
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- 111–130 (20 total)