This paper focuses on skilled migrants moving to and integrating in the Middle East. We provide a series of factors to help conceptualize this heterogeneous group. The paper looks at various types of skilled migration, mobility and integration as well as the challenges that individual migrants...

Like all migration, skilled migration depends on intermediary operators that provide services that assist the mobility, labour market entry and integration of migrant workers. However within what is a relatively disparate body of literature on migrant work, there is often either a complete...

This paper addresses the problem of low-status or ‘bad’ jobs (Kalleberg, et al.2000) in the occupations of truck driver and personal care assistant, and explores skill-based strategies for making these jobs better. The paper grapples with conceptualizations of low status jobs within theories...

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...