Anna Boucher

Gender, migration and the global race for talent

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the gendered terrain of skilled immigration policies across twelve countries and thirty seven skilled immigration visas. It argues that while skilled immigration policies are often gendered, this outcome is not inevitable and that governments possess considerable scope in policy design.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099458
• ISBN-10: 0719099455
• Artikelnr.: 42797448

Autorenporträt

Anna Boucher is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The global race for talent: global context 1. Skill
and gender: navigating the theoretical terrain 2. Gender awareness of
skilled immigration policies across the OECD: presenting the GenderImmi
Dataset Part II: Gendering skilled immigration policy in Australia and
Canada, 1988-2013 3. Gendering the policy process: venue shopping and
diversity-seeking 4. Changing the mix: the shift from family to skilled
immigration, 1988-2003 5. New selection grids: points tests and gender
effects, 1993-2003 6. Targeting skills during the global financial crisis,
2007-13: gendered winners and losers? 7. Mining booms and Nanny-Gate: the
gendered terrain of temporary economic immigration, 2007-13 8. Activist
mobilising, state sponsorship and venue shopping capabilities Appendix 1.
Elite interviews conducted with relevant Australians Appendix 2. Elite
interviews conducted with relevant Canadians Appendix 3. Methodological
appendix and elite interviewing schedule Bibliography