This book considers the origins, performance and diffusion of
national immigration policies targeting highly skilled immigrants.
Unlike asylum seekers and immigrants admitted under family
reunification streams, highly skilled immigrants are typically cast
as "wanted and welcome" as a consequence of their potential
economic contribution to the receiving society and putative
assimilability. Testing the degree to which this assumption holds
is the principle aim of this book. In contrast to publications
which see highly skilled immigration as functional response to
labor market needs, the book probes the political and sociological
dimensions of policy, drawing on contributions from an
international group of established and new scholars from the fields
of history, law, political science, sociology, and public policy.
The book is organized into four parts. Part I probes the origins of
post-WWII immigration policies in Canada, Australia, and the United
States. Part II analyzes recent debates on highly skilled
immigration policy in the United States, whose origins go back to
the 1965 Act by Congress which favored family reunification over
skilled immigration. Part III considers the degree to which highly
skilled immigrants are welcome, by focusing on the integration
trajectories of foreign trained professionals in Canada.
Paradoxically, just as Canada has succeeded in orienting its
admissions system more explicitly toward privileging highly
educated and skilled professionals, highly skilled immigrants have
experienced worsening economic outcomes as reflected in rates of
unemployment and falling earnings. Part IV considers the
internationalization of highly skilled immigration policies,
focusing on Europe's most important immigration countries, Germany
and Britain. As is true in Canada, the labor market outcomes for
highly skilled immigrants in Europe are disappointing, and the
final chapter discusses why this is the case and what might be done
to improve matters. Given its combination of cross-disciplinary
insights, cross-national comparisons, and empirical richness, the
book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers
concerned with immigration policy.
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