Taking the view that 'skills' are socially constructed categories and highly malleable concepts in practice, this volume centres the discussion on following questions: Who are the arbitrators of skill? What constitutes skill? And how is skill constructed in the migration process and in turn, how does skill affect the mobility?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction-Social construction of skill: an analytical approach toward the question of skill in cross-border labour mobilities 2. Skilled or unskilled? The reconfiguration of migration policies in Japan 3. Shifting employabilities: skilling migrants in the nation of emigration 4. Becoming global talent? Taiwanese white-collar migrants in Japan 5. Who are the fittest? The question of skills in national employment systems in an age of global labour mobility 6. Intermediaries and transnational regimes of skill: nursing skills and competencies in the context of international migration 7. The work that brokers do: the skills, competences and know-how of intermediaries in the H-2 visa programme 8. From cooks to chefs: skilled migrants in a globalising culinary field
