Crushed Hopes: Underemployment and Deskilling Among Skilled Migrant Women (International Dialogue on Migration) - Softcover

Migration, International Organization For

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9290685980 ISBN 13: 9789290685982

Publisher: Intergovernmental Committee for Migration, 2013

Synopsis

This report is a collective publication comprising a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the disproportionate difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transferring their skills and finding employment commensurate with their education when relocating to a new country. The case studies highlight situations in which migratory status and labour market dynamics can combine to constrain skilled and highly skilled migrant women to low-skilled occupations despite their often high human capital. They also analyse the impact that such occupational downgrading can have on migrant women’s well-being and the strategies that women can adopt to regain a professional status.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intergovernmental Committee for Migration
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9290685980
• ISBN 13: 9789290685982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178