The question of skill in cross-border labour mobilities. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Michiel Baas.
• Editors: Liu-Farrer, Gracia; Yeoh, Brenda S. A; Baas, Michiel
• Contents: 1. Introduction—Social construction of skill: an analytical approach toward the question of skill in cross-border labour mobilities Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Michiel Baas 2. Skilled or unskilled? The reconfiguration of migration policies in Japan Nana Oishi 3. Shifting employabilities: skilling migrants in the nation of emigration Yasmin Y. Ortiga 4. Becoming global talent? Taiwanese white-collar migrants in Japan Yen-Fen Tseng 5. Who are the fittest? The question of skills in national employment systems in an age of global labour mobility Gracia Liu-Farrer and Karen Shire 6. Intermediaries and transnational regimes of skill: nursing skills and competencies in the context of international migration Margaret Walton-Roberts 7. The work that brokers do: the skills, competences and know-how of intermediaries in the H-2 visa programme Rubén Hernández-León 8. From cooks to chefs: skilled migrants in a globalising culinary field James Farrer
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (144 pages)
• Subjects: 331.62; Foreign workers; Skilled labor; Discrimination in employment; Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000852325; 9781000852288
• Related ISBNs: 9781032448695
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