| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-237) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. |
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Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Australia. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Government policy. |
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Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Canada. |
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Labor market -- Sex differences.
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Labor market -- Sex differences. |
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Labor market. |
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Women immigrants.
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Women immigrants. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boucher, Anna. Gender, migration and the global race for talent. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 0719099455 (DLC) 2015303347 (OCoLC)920729893 |
| ISBN |
9781784997137 (electronic book) |
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1784997137 (electronic book) |
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0719099455 |
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9780719099458 |
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