Traces of Highly Skilled Labor Migrants: Education, Family and Mobility Cover Image

Yüksek Kalifiye Emek Göçmenlerinin Izleri: Eğitim, Aile Ve Mobilite
Traces of Highly Skilled Labor Migrants: Education, Family and Mobility

Author(s): Ulaş Sunata
Subject(s): Labor relations, Migration Studies, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: Rasim Özgür DÖNMEZ
Keywords: Brain Migration; Cultural Capital; Typology; Education; Professionals;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at exploring pattern of becoming highly skilled labor migrant from Turkey. It focused on pre-migration biographies in order to develop a typology of backgrounds of the highly educated migrants from Turkey in Germany. For this purpose, 33 semi-structured interviews with ICT-specialists, who migrated from Turkey to work professionally in Germany, were analyzed. The paper treats highly skilled labor migration as a process involving the preparatory role of the family and education system. It highlights importance of geographical mobility, gender difference, socio-economic status of the family, cultural capital of the mother, high school preference, and warm-up exercises, as well as their correlation.

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 180-201
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Turkish