Gendered highly skilled migration in the knowledge sector

Parvati Raghuram; Gunjan Sondhi

Handbook on Gender in Asia

International Handbooks on Gender series

Edited by Shirlena Huang and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

The Handbook on Gender in Asia critically examines, through a gender perspective, five broad themes of significance to Asia: the ‘Theory and Practice’ of researching in Asia; ‘Gender, Ageing and Health’; ‘Gender and Labour’; ‘Gendered Migrations and Mobilities’; and ‘Gender at the Margins’. With each chapter providing an overview of the key intellectual developments on the issue under discussion, as well as empirical examples to examine how the Asian case sheds light on these debates, this collection will be an invaluable reference for scholars of gender and Asia.

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Published in print:: 15 Jul 2020

ISBN:: 9781788112901

eISBN:: 9781788112918

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112918

Pages:: 456

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Chapter 15: Gendered highly skilled migration in the knowledge sector

Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi

Handbook Chapter

Published:: 15 July 2020

Category:: Handbook Chapter

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112918.00024

Pages:: 253–274 (22 total)

Collection: Social and Political Science 2020

Abstract

Highly skilled women form a large part of skilled migrant flows within, from and to Asia, although they have little place in the imaginaries of Asian gendered migration. This chapter focuses on the mutually constitutive relationship between gender and skilled migration. It first reviews the key feminist contributions to theorising skilled migration. Second, it outlines how gender, skills and migration play out in skilled migration regimes. Lastly, it sets out a future research agenda for gendered skilled migration research that is sensitive to the geographies in which gender analysis of skilled migrants is conducted, and the need to extend research beyond a heteronormative and patriarchal matrix.

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