This paper focuses on skilled migrants moving to and integrating in the Middle East. We provide a series of factors to help conceptualize this heterogeneous group. The paper looks at various types of skilled migration, mobility and integration as well as the challenges that individual migrants...

Like all migration, skilled migration depends on intermediary operators that provide services that assist the mobility, labour market entry and integration of migrant workers. However within what is a relatively disparate body of literature on migrant work, there is often either a complete...

This chapter compares the reasons why highly skilled British expatriates immigrated to and would emigrate from Canada. The reasons respondents left the UK and would return to the UK were markedly different. Job opportunities, for example, were important in immigration decisions, whereas family...