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The making of a skilled worker: the transnational mixed embeddedness of migrant workers.
- Source :
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Mobilities . Apr2023, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p250-266. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Migrant workers' employment pathways are mainly analysed by observing their behaviour in receiving societies. In dialogue with critical studies of mobility, migration, and skill, we argue that the 'transnational mixed embeddedness' approach, used to analyse migrant businesses, should extend to include migrant workers. Based on multi-sited ethnography, we discuss the phenomenon of Chinese migrant workers in Italy who exploit the transnationally embedded opportunities to access training courses in China. We analyse the transnational workers' agency in circumnavigating socially constructed notions of training and skill, and stress the transformative logic of the migrant trajectories as transnational mobility influences the trainees' perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MIGRANT labor
*SKILLED labor
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17450101
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Mobilities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163248774
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2082882