Intermediaries and destination reputations: explaining flows of skilled migration |
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Authors: | William S. Harvey Dimitria Groutsis Diane van den Broek |
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Affiliation: | 1. Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UKwilliam.harvey@exeter.ac.uk;3. The University of Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTGovernments have increasingly commercialised their migration services, which has fuelled a mushrooming migration industry creating a ripe context for the central role of migration intermediaries. It is therefore timely to explore the new actors responsible for shaping contemporary flows of skilled migration. Drawing on the work of existing studies and a wide variety of secondary data, we argue that the range of intermediaries who have emerged as a result of the commercialisation process, have been poorly understood in the skilled migration and migration industries literatures. Discussion of these actors sheds important theoretical light on how intermediaries, destination reputations and skilled migration flows intersect. Accordingly, we outline six propositions that identify the interconnected relationship between migration intermediaries, reputation and skilled migration flows. |
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Keywords: | Skilled migration flows intermediaries destination reputations social networks migration industries |
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