Talent Migration Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Germany and Singapore. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cerna, Lucie; Chou, Meng-Hsuan
• Is Part Of: Journal of immigrant & refugee studies. Volume 21:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 73
• Page End: 88
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- Germany -- highly-skilled -- migration -- Singapore -- talent; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Social work with immigrants -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.8753097305
• DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2022.2128494
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1556-2948

Abstract

ABSTRACT: We compare Germany and Singapore to see how their approaches toward talent migration governance have evolved in the last decade and whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected these developments. Building on the Highly-Skilled Immigration Index (HSII), our discussions show Germany becoming very welcoming of high-skilled labor migrants, and Singapore becoming increasingly selective in which labor migrants it admits into the City State. Our findings reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic has not changed the direction of policies in Germany and Singapore, but it has affected talent migration rates.