Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231174409
Jocelyn Celero
during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 225–246. Silva HA (2021)Migraciones, crisis y pandemias en el siglo XXI. Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. [Migrations, crises and pandemics in the 21st century: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay]. Santiago: Ariadna Ediciones [In Spanish]. Triandafyllidou A (2021) Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. Vogt G and Qin S (2022) Sanitizing the national body: COVID-19 and the revival of Japan’s “closed country” strategy. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 247–269.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231168137
Gracia Liu-Farrer
Japan welcomes highly educated migrants, but do these migrants stay on in Japan? Drawing on a web survey of 600 immigrant employees working in Japan, this paper evaluates different factors influencing migrants’ stay and leave intentions. The results indicate that economic and employment-related reasons have limited impact on migrants’ stay intentions. Nationalities also predict migrants’ varied willingness to stay in Japan, indicating the blurring boundary between economic and cultural logics of migration. Among all factors, marrying locals provides the strongest incentive to stay, demonstrating again that affective and social ties exercise the most power in anchoring the migrants.
{"title":"The logics of staying for highly skilled Asian migrants in Japan","authors":"Gracia Liu-Farrer","doi":"10.1177/01171968231168137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231168137","url":null,"abstract":"Japan welcomes highly educated migrants, but do these migrants stay on in Japan? Drawing on a web survey of 600 immigrant employees working in Japan, this paper evaluates different factors influencing migrants’ stay and leave intentions. The results indicate that economic and employment-related reasons have limited impact on migrants’ stay intentions. Nationalities also predict migrants’ varied willingness to stay in Japan, indicating the blurring boundary between economic and cultural logics of migration. Among all factors, marrying locals provides the strongest incentive to stay, demonstrating again that affective and social ties exercise the most power in anchoring the migrants.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"61 1","pages":"105 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84563181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231174961
Lara Momesso
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231170503
Pui Kwan Man, Rebecca Yiqing Gan, E. Fong
Migration is expected to bring higher life satisfaction with better social and economic achievement. While studies on life satisfaction treat migrants mainly as a single homogeneous group, knowledge about highly educated migrants is scant in current migration scholarship. Highly educated migrants may not have the higher life satisfaction because they may also have higher expectations. To complicate matters further, there may be gender differences in the experiences and life satisfaction of highly educated migrants. This study examines the factors associated with levels of life satisfaction among highly educated migrants from a gender perspective. First, we examine whether the level of life satisfaction differs by gender. Second, we explore various factors associated with the life satisfaction of highly educated migrants and whether these factors differ by gender. We examine these relationships using data from a respondent-driven sampling of 2,884 highly educated Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong. Our results indicate that the life satisfaction of female migrants is related to their social networks, whereas the life satisfaction of male migrants is related to economic security.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231167922
Ka Wang Kelvin Lam, Hua Zhong, Gloria Yuxuan Gu
Prior research overlooks highly educated migrants and their political incorporation in host societies. This study applies both classic assimilation and self-selection theories to understand political trust among highly educated migrants from Mainland China in Hong Kong, including their trust toward local (host society) and central (home society) governments. We also address the possibility of selective assimilation adopted by migrant parents as risk-reducing strategies. Based on a survey of highly educated Mainland migrants in Hong Kong (n = 2,884), our results show partial support for both theories. Migrants’ political trust is influenced by both their post-migration political exposure and their pre-migration political attitudes. Moreover, migrant parents tend to remain bicultural, showing more positive attitudes toward both governments in host and home societies.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231165584
Ping Lin
Studies on migration, education and social mobility are usually discussed in three separate fields. This article presents the overlap of these three fields by discussing how Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta perceive the educational opportunities for their children and the ethnic-based status for themselves. The study finds that for people from middle- and working-class families, migration overseas to less developed countries is a good opportunity to obtain higher socio-economic status and an upward mobility path for their children. However, the opportunity also creates unexpected anxieties. The privileges that these migrants obtain and the anxieties they have illustrate opportunity traps for these middling migrants.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231173751
Skylar Biyang Sun, Lei Jin
We assessed how the high-skilled migrants’ statuses in Mainland China and Hong Kong and the discrepancies between the two statuses are related to their well-being outcomes. We used respondent-driven sampling method and obtained an analytical sample of 2,864 participants. The majority of the high-skilled migrants perceived higher status in Mainland China than in Hong Kong which is more consequential for their health and well-being. Compared to those who perceived similar statuses in the two locations, migrants who perceived different statuses tended to report lower levels of psychological well-being, providing evidence to the detrimental effects of status inconsistency.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231174055
Kenny Shui, Ka Wang Kelvin Lam, Judy Chen, E. Fong
With more jobs requiring educational credentials, highly educated migrants are sought by many governments. This study is drawn from recently collected data between 2018 and 2020 in Hong Kong on highly educated migrants from Mainland China. We explored how entry visa categories, current experience and future expectation of highly educated migrants are related to their intention to stay. The findings suggest that all three aspects of their migration experience are related to their intention to stay. The findings also indicate that immigration policies, in particular visa categories, play a significant role in the intention of highly skilled migrants to stay. Thus, the government should pay attention to the types of visas that are likely to influence the retention of the highly educated in Hong Kong and the number of visas that are issued each year.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231156473
B. Potnuru, Pooja Arora
“Nitaqat,” the labor market nationalization policy of Saudi Arabia, aims to increase the employment of Saudi nationals by restricting the entry of foreign workers in the country. Data from a sample survey of Indian professionals working in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was analyzed using Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) Wilks’ lambda and Tukey Honestly Significant Difference tests. The findings from the exploratory study suggest that the Indian professionals who were laid off due to the policy are statistically significant between the sectors but not between the “Nitaqat” zones and the size of enterprises. The policy impact on new recruitments of Indian professionals is statistically significant between Nitaqat zones but not between sectors and the size of enterprises. The findings indicate that the opportunities for Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia are constrained in the construction sector and in yellow zone companies, while employment prospects remain in the banking and finance, education and IT and telecom sectors and in blue zone firms.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/01171968231153476
Ayesha Masood Chaudry, M. Bilal
Pakistan is among the Asian countries which permits dual citizenship. However, the dual citizenship privileges availed by overseas-based Pakistanis spark intense debate making Pakistani dual citizens and their entitlements a contested subject in the country. A qualitative study was conducted in the city of Rawalpindi asking what the attitudes of Pakistani citizens on dual citizenship are, as well as their positions on the rights of dual citizens with regard to education, employment and property ownership in Pakistan. In-depth interviews were conducted with two groups of interviewees: 25 Pakistani citizens and 18 Pakistani dual citizens. The findings suggest that Pakistani citizens resist the unconditional provision of socio-economic rights to Pakistani dual citizens considering their “split loyalties.” Most of the respondents argued against their employment in sensitive institutions such as the armed forces and judiciary, however, their right to education and property acquisition was supported in circumstances when it benefits Pakistan’s development. The perspectives of dual citizens also reflect ambivalence over how to resolve the allegiance conundrum and as a result, display divergent views on their privileges and rights in their home country.
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