The Human Face of Global Mobility : International Highly Skilled Migartion In Europe, North America And The Asia-Pacific

About the Contributors vii 1. The Human Face of Global Mobility: A Research Agenda 1 Adrian Favell, Miriam Feldblum and Michael Peter Smith Part One: Global and Regional Contexts 2. The Competition State and Multilateral Liberalization of Highly Skilled Migration 29(24) Sandra Lavenex 3. From Migrants to Movers: Citizenship and Mobility in the European Union 53(28) Ettore Recchi Part Two: Highly Skilled Migration in the United States 4. "The Best and the Brightest": Immigrant Professionals in the U.S. 81(22) Jeanne Batalova and B. Lindsay Lowell 5. Disaggregating Immigration Policy: The Politics of Skilled Labor Recruitment in the U.S. 103(28) Gary P. Freeman and David K. Hill 6. Interests and Institutions in Skilled Migration: Comparing Flows in the IT and Nursing Sectors in the U.S. 131(28) Jeannette Money and Dana Zartner Falstrom Part Three: The Human Face of Global Mobility 7. Symbolic Analysts or Indentured Servants? Indian High-Tech Migrants in America's Information Economy 159(22) Paula Chakravartty 8. Students without Borders? Migratory Decision-Making among International Graduate Students in the U.S. 181(30) Katalin Szelényi 9. Wired for Work: Highly Skilled Employment and Global Mobility in Mobile Telecommunications Multinationals 211(36) Ödül Bozkurt 10. London as Eurocity: French Free Movers in the Economic Capital of Europe 247(28) Adrian Favell Bibliography 275(28) Index 303