Gender, migration and the global race for talent / Anna Boucher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-237) and index.

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The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally discriminate on gender grounds. Presenting the first book-length account of the global race for talent from a gender perspective, this text is aimed at graduate students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of immigration studies, political science, public policy, sociology and gender studies and Australian and Canadian studies.

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Outline of the book; Part I: the global race for talent; Part II: gendering skilled immigration policy in Australia and Canada, 1988-2013; Four case studies of skilled immigration policies; Notes; Part I The global race for talent: global context; 1 Skill and gender: navigating the theoretical terrain; Introduction; Developing gender-aware indicators within immigration studies.

Developing new indicators of 'gender awareness' in skilled immigration policyGender mainstreaming processes: gender audits, gender units and gender-disaggregated data; Life course factors: gender issues over the working life; Age and career milestones; Defining 'skill'; Human capital theory; Feminist industrial relations, sociological and economics critiques of human capital theory; Structural impediments to skill accrual; Political negotiation and skills definition; Soft skills, care and defining skill; Language, skill and gender: intersectional considerations; Conclusion; Notes.

2 Gender awareness of skilled immigration policies across the OECD: presenting the GenderImmi data setIntroduction; Development indicators of gender awareness within skilled immigration policies; Case selection and method for the skilled immigration data set; Method; Empirical findings and analysis; Gender mainstreaming processes: gender audits, gender units and gender-disaggregated data; Gendered career trajectories and life course events; Age; Work breaks and gendered life courses; Definitions of 'skill' and their implications for gender awareness.

Human capital methods of selection -- the choice between general and specific human capitalWage threshold methods of selection; Employer-determined methods of selection; Emotional labour and care work as skilled work; The obstacles of language proficiency; Concluding analysis; Notes; Part II Gendering skilled immigration policy in Australia and Canada, 1988-2013; 3 Gendering the policy process: venue shopping and diversity-seeking; Introduction; Understanding skilled immigration policy-making: economic explanations; Interest group explanations for variation in skilled immigration policies.

Political economy approachesPartisan explanations for immigration policy outputs; The venue shopping explanation for gender-aware immigration policies; Extending venue shopping to Westminster-inspired systems: diversity-seekers challenge bureaucratic control; The role of sympathetic bureaucrats; Legislative committees; Strong bicameralism; Federalism; Strong judicial systems; The engagement of 'diversity-seeking' feminist groups and immigrant Ưassociations within the venue shopping approach; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Changing the mix, 1988-2003: the shift from family to skilled immigration.

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