Migration and Social Pathways: Biographies of Highly Educated People Moving East-West-East in Europe

In: Qualitative Fall- und Prozessanalysen.

Abstract

"Migration and Social. Pathways Biographies of Highly Educated People Moving. East-West-East in Europe" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Preface: Pathways to the research questions" -- "1 Introduction" -- "1.1 The context of EU enlargement" -- "1.2 Outline of my research questions" -- "1.3 Studying migration and social pathways by means of life stories" -- "1.4 Structure of this thesis" -- "2 Context: Czech-German border crossings against the backdrop of the shifting landscape of European migration" -- "2.1 Historical interconnections over the past millennium" -- "2.2 The 19th and 20th century" -- "2.3 Border crossings during the Cold War" -- "2.4 The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the establishment of new migratory spaces" -- "2.5 The enlargement of the EU in 2004 and 2007 and the financial crisis" -- "3 Research on highly skilled migration in Europe: state of the art" -- "3.1 Changing contexts of highly skilled migration: working towards the liberalisation of skilled migration flows" -- "3.2 Rethinking the migration of highly skilled people: the research agenda" -- "3.2.1 "Highly skilled migrants" as the subject of research" -- "3.2.2 The neglected gender dimension within studies on highly skilled migration" -- "3.2.3 Going beyond the dichotomy of "low skilled migration" and "highly skilled migration"" -- "3.2.4 Redefining "highly skilled migrants" and "highly skilled migration"" -- "3.3 An overview of recent studies on highly skilled migration pathways to and within Europe" -- "3.3.1 Education – the ticket to work? Statistical evidence." -- "3.3.2 Legal and institutional frameworks affecting highly skilled migrants: studying the inter play of class, gender and ethnicity" -- "3.3.3 An agent-centred approach to pathways to the labour market