China is attempting to take measures to manage the environmental risks of its overseas investments; the China Green Finance Committee and the Foreign Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly released the “Chinese Initiative on Environmental Risk Management for...

Collaboration between scientists working in China and Europe confronts political pressure to decouple, disengage, withhold, and withdraw. As geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions grow, the value of scientific networks has been placed under scrutiny and called into question. At the same time...

Highly skilled workers are central in today’s global knowledge economy, playing a central role in countries’ rigorous pursuit of attracting and retaining highly qualified labor migrants. This becomes particularly important to Sweden, a post-industrial country at the very forefront of...

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Georgia and Turkey experienced significant inflows of tens of thousands of Russian and Belarusian IT (information technology) specialists who chose to leave their countries in opposition to the war, to avoid military conscription, or...

Public opinion on migration in receiving countries is divided. For example, in the years 2013-2015 before the EU referendum in June 2016, immigration was consistently named as the most salient issue facing the United Kingdom peaking at 56 per cent in September 2016. Despite the negative...

China joined the ‘global talent race’ with a wide array of talent attraction initiatives which are funded by national and local government institutions. The talent funding targets highly skilled returnees - typically Chinese but also foreigners mostly from the global West, including Europe -...

This chapter provides an introductory overview of the complexities and significance of international talent management in the context of contemporary global challenges. It emphasizes the multifaceted nature of talent flows, driven by diverse motivations and intersecting with policy landscapes....

This chapter provides some concluding remarks for the book and also an introduction of “international talent mobility” to the concept of “expatalent” by merging trends in migration and business studies to focus on highly skilled migrants, particularly Chinese talent movers....

This chapter addresses the quest for global talent in three European countries - Sweden, Germany and the U.K. - by outlining and comparing immigration policies applying to intra-company transfers of overseas staff. While these transfers occasionally enable global corporations to seamlessly...