Mobilities of the Highly Skilled towards Switzerland

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Switzerland