It is often maintained that contemporary foreign labour recruitment programs have taken an increasingly selective stance and that skills are increasingly crucial in granting migrants easier access and stronger welfare and residency rights in receiving countries. The paper provides a retrospective account of the evolution of Italian labour migration management, paying attention to the changing selection criteria reflected in some of its "front, back and side doors". It will be shown that Italian labour migration management is increasingly embracing a bifurcated regime of deservingness. Despite some recent tentative signs of change towards an increased evaluation of high skills as a selection principle embedded into a competitiveness-driven frame, over the last decades labour migration management has been largely dominated by the recruitment of a low-skilled workforce. The paper discusses the emergence of a specific construction migrants' deservingness placing Italy in a peculiar position in a European context. International Migration
Looking for the best and brightest? Changing regimes of deservingness in Italian labour migration management / P. Bonizzoni. - In: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION. - ISSN 1468-2435. - 56:4(2018 Aug), pp. 47-62. [10.1111/imig.12447]
Looking for the best and brightest? Changing regimes of deservingness in Italian labour migration management
P. Bonizzoni
2018
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It is often maintained that contemporary foreign labour recruitment programs have taken an increasingly selective stance and that skills are increasingly crucial in granting migrants easier access and stronger welfare and residency rights in receiving countries. The paper provides a retrospective account of the evolution of Italian labour migration management, paying attention to the changing selection criteria reflected in some of its "front, back and side doors". It will be shown that Italian labour migration management is increasingly embracing a bifurcated regime of deservingness. Despite some recent tentative signs of change towards an increased evaluation of high skills as a selection principle embedded into a competitiveness-driven frame, over the last decades labour migration management has been largely dominated by the recruitment of a low-skilled workforce. The paper discusses the emergence of a specific construction migrants' deservingness placing Italy in a peculiar position in a European context. International MigrationFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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