Indian Punjabi skilled migrants in Britain: Of brain drain and under-employment

dc.contributor.author Qureshi, Kaveri
dc.contributor.author Varghese, V. J.
dc.contributor.author Osella, Filippo
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-27T01:54:37Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-27T01:54:37Z
dc.date.issued 2013-01-01
dc.description.abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the careers of skilled migrants from Indian Punjab. This study complicates the normalization of skilled migration as a "win-win" situation by examining the career trajectories of skilled migrants from the Indian Punjab who are trying to establish themselves in Britain. Design/methodology/approach: The paper examines 20 life history interviews undertaken with skilled migrants from the Indian Punjab to Britain, in IT, media, law and hospitality industries, health and welfare professionals, and student migrants. Findings: Skilled migrants were able to migrate on their own auspices through migration economies in Punjab. Once in Britain, however, they were directed to universities and labour markets in which they were not able to use their skills. They experienced under-employment, devaluation of their qualifications and downward mobility, which forced them into ethnic and gendered markets within their home networks and created ambivalence about migrant success and issues of return. Research limitations/implications: The study emphasizes the need to take a transnational lens when looking at skilled migration, address how migrants' career trajectories are limited by racism, anti-immigration sentiment and gender inequality, and consider temporality and uncertainty. Originality/value: The paper raises questions concerning the ways in which rapidly changing "managed migration" policies in Britain have burdened individual migrants. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
dc.identifier.citation Journal of Management Development. v.32(2)
dc.identifier.issn 02621711
dc.identifier.uri 10.1108/02621711311305683
dc.identifier.uri https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/02621711311305683/full/html
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4337
dc.subject Education
dc.subject Ethnic minorities
dc.subject Gender
dc.subject India
dc.subject Migrant workers
dc.subject Migrants
dc.subject Skilled workers
dc.subject United Kingdom
dc.title Indian Punjabi skilled migrants in Britain: Of brain drain and under-employment
dc.type Journal. Article
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