Migrating skills, skilled migrants and migration skills: The influence of contexts on the validation of migrants’ skills

Nowicka, Magdalena

doi:10.33182/ml.v11i2.237

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Migrating skills, skilled migrants and migration skills: The influence of contexts on the validation of migrants’ skills

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Nowicka, Magdalena·2014·Migration Letters

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Notions of skill are geographically and historically specific; migration regimes, professional regulations and national policies influence possibilities of effective validation of migrant knowledge abroad. Migration scholars convincingly demonstrate how migrants actively circumvent national requirements to fit into the dominant culture of the society of residence while preserving their own identities. Yet, without exception, social inequalities research exclusively addresses the integration of migrants into the receiving context, taking skills as a fixed attribute migrants simply ‘bring with them’. I argue that the context of origin of migrants for skill acquisition and validation during the migration process needs to be considered as well. The way skills are defined, acquired and valorised in the country of origin has an influence on how migrants mobilise them in the receiving society and on how they perceive their chances for negotiating strong positions in the labour market of the host country. The article draws on a study of Polish migrants to the UK with secondary and tertiary educational certificates who work in routine or semi-routine occupations.

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Authors: Nowicka, M.
Affiliations: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
Corresponding author: Nowicka, Magdalena
ORCID: Nowicka, Magdalena
Venue: Migration Letters
Publisher: Dewspublication
Published: 2014-05-29
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Pages: 171-186
ISSN: 1741-8984 (ISSN-L)
1741-8992
DOI: 10.33182/ml.v11i2.237
OpenAlex: W1812660175
Cited by: 95
References: 43
Citations by year: 2026: 12 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 3
FWCI: 14.11
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: diamond
doi.org
Locations: MIGRATION LETTERS (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
Keywords: migrant skills, skilled migrants, migration regimes, professional regulation, social inequality, immigrant integration, labour market integration, Polish immigrants, educational certificates, routine occupations

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