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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163984603321

Autore

Cairns David

Titolo

The Consequences of Mobility [[electronic resource] ] : Reflexivity, Social Inequality and the Reproduction of Precariousness in Highly Qualified Migration / / by David Cairns, Valentina Cuzzocrea, Daniel Briggs, Luísa Veloso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-46741-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 191 p. 1 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Industrial sociology

Labor economics

Social structure

Equality

Human geography

Social policy

Migration

Sociology of Work

Labor Economics

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Human Geography

Comparative Social Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The Mobility Dream and its Consequences -- 2. Mobility Contexts -- 3. New Dilemmas in Europe’s Race for Global Talent: A Wrong Turn for Tertiary Education? -- 4. Working for Europe? Managing Erasmus+ in the Austerity Era -- 5. Recruiting Interns and Keeping them ‘Externs’: Mobility Paradoxes in Internship Governance -- 6. Being a Researcher: Professional Stability and Career Trajectories in Science and Technology -- 7. The Unsettled Future: Future Challenges in Highly Qualified



Mobility.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing its education systems and labour markets to international competition. While acknowledging the potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal many of the negative consequences arising from flaws in mobility governance and inequalities in access to opportunities, arguing that when the management of mobility goes ‘wrong’, we are left with a heightened level of precariousness and the reproduction of social inequality. This discussion will be of interest to those working within Europe’s mobility infrastructure, as well as policymakers in the mobility field and students and scholars from across the social sciences.