Highly-skilled labour migration in Switzerland: household strategies and professional careers
- The article investigates household strategies in the context of highly-skilled labour migration. It focuses on the ways highly-skilled migrants are taking up residence in Switzerland. The analysis shows different household strategies based on the perception of a further professional move. The perceived likeliness of a further move implies household strategies characterized by a high motility: the household remains ready to move and mobilises dedicated organisations (like outplacement agencies or international schools). When a further move is neither perceived nor wanted, the household develops more anchored strategies which are often cheaper. In order to cope with frequent mobilities, the analysis shows that household strategies are deeply gendered.
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| Author: | Florian Tissot |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-427356 |
| URL: | http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/60214713/Working-Paper_No_10.pdf |
| Parent Title (English): | Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" ; No. 10 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" (10) |
| Publisher: | Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2016 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/01/31 |
| Tag: | career strategies; family strategies; gender; highly-skilled migration; international work |
| Page Number: | 28 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 400130394 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
