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AuthorBabar, Zahra
AuthorEwers, Michael
AuthorKhattab, Nabil
Available date2019-02-21T06:51:57Z
Publication Date2018-07-09
Publication NameJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1492372
CitationZahra Babar, Michael Ewers & Nabil Khattab (2018): Im/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1492372
ISSN1369-183X
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/11327
AbstractMost studies on the mobility of highly skilled migrants have been examined with a framework of global talent mobility and under conditions of neoliberal governance and economic globalization. In this study we challenge the notion of the hypermobile knowledge worker. Utilizing mixed methods, we examine the factors that attracted highly skilled migrants to Qatar and the conditions under which they might leave in the future. Rather than finding a group of footloose migrants attracted primarily to high-wage jobs, a lack of taxation or amenities, and with multiple alternative locations of residence, we find that highly skilled migrants exist on a spectrum of immobility. More significantly, this immobility depends on the migrant’s region of origin. For Asian and Western migrants immobility is attributed to the Kafala system or employer sponsorship, which hinders occupational and spatial mobility and ties workers to their sponsors. Arab highly skilled migrants are especially affected by lack of security and stability in their home countries, which makes these workers involuntarily immobile. The former group seem to be willing to accept a reduced level of agency and mobility for high income, whereas for the latter security and stability are more fundamental to their decision to come to Qatar.
Languageen
PublisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)
SubjectHighly skilled migrants
Qatar
Kafala system
migration
mobility
TitleIm/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar
TypeArticle
Pagination1-18
ESSN1469-9451
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