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Gender, migration and the global race for talent /
The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally discriminate on gender grounds. Presenting the first book-length account of the global race for talent from a gender perspective, this text is aimed at g...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Boucher, Anna, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Gender, migration and the global race for talent / |c Anna Boucher. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Manchester : |b Manchester University Press, |c 2016. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2017 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2016. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Outline of the book; Part I: the global race for talent; Part II: gendering skilled immigration policy in Australia and Canada, 1988-2013; Four case studies of skilled immigration policies; Notes; Part I The global race for talent: global context; 1 Skill and gender: navigating the theoretical terrain; Introduction; Developing gender-aware indicators within immigration studies. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Developing new indicators of 'gender awareness' in skilled immigration policyGender mainstreaming processes: gender audits, gender units and gender-disaggregated data; Life course factors: gender issues over the working life; Age and career milestones; Defining 'skill'; Human capital theory; Feminist industrial relations, sociological and economics critiques of human capital theory; Structural impediments to skill accrual; Political negotiation and skills definition; Soft skills, care and defining skill; Language, skill and gender: intersectional considerations; Conclusion; Notes. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 2 Gender awareness of skilled immigration policies across the OECD: presenting the GenderImmi data setIntroduction; Development indicators of gender awareness within skilled immigration policies; Case selection and method for the skilled immigration data set; Method; Empirical findings and analysis; Gender mainstreaming processes: gender audits, gender units and gender-disaggregated data; Gendered career trajectories and life course events; Age; Work breaks and gendered life courses; Definitions of 'skill' and their implications for gender awareness. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Human capital methods of selection -- the choice between general and specific human capitalWage threshold methods of selection; Employer-determined methods of selection; Emotional labour and care work as skilled work; The obstacles of language proficiency; Concluding analysis; Notes; Part II Gendering skilled immigration policy in Australia and Canada, 1988-2013; 3 Gendering the policy process: venue shopping and diversity-seeking; Introduction; Understanding skilled immigration policy-making: economic explanations; Interest group explanations for variation in skilled immigration policies. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Political economy approachesPartisan explanations for immigration policy outputs; The venue shopping explanation for gender-aware immigration policies; Extending venue shopping to Westminster-inspired systems: diversity-seekers challenge bureaucratic control; The role of sympathetic bureaucrats; Legislative committees; Strong bicameralism; Federalism; Strong judicial systems; The engagement of 'diversity-seeking' feminist groups and immigrant Ưassociations within the venue shopping approach; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Changing the mix, 1988-2003: the shift from family to skilled immigration. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally discriminate on gender grounds. Presenting the first book-length account of the global race for talent from a gender perspective, this text is aimed at graduate students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of immigration studies, political science, public policy, sociology and gender studies and Australian and Canadian studies. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Women immigrants. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01177764 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Labor market |x Sex differences. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00990058 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Emigration and immigration |x Government policy. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00908700 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Public Policy |x Social Policy. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Central Government Policies. |2 bicssc | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Immigrantes. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Marche du travail |x Differences entre sexes. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Émigration et immigration |x Politique gouvernementale. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women immigrants. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Labor market |x Sex differences. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Emigration and immigration |x Government policy. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Canada. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204310 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Australia. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204543 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Australie |x Émigration et immigration |x Politique gouvernementale. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Canada |x Emigration and immigration |x Government policy. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Australia |x Emigration and immigration |x Government policy. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
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