Asymmetric Mobility and Emigration of Highly Skilled Workers in Europe: The Portuguese case

• Authors: Machado Gomes Rui , Teixeira Lopes João , Cerdeira Luísa , Vaz Henrique , Peixoto Paulo , Cabrito Belmiro , Machado-Taylor Maria Lourdes , Brites Rui , Patrocínio Tomás , Ganga Rafaela , Silva Sílvia , Silva José Pedro
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Emigration is a chronic structural process of the Portuguese society. The discussion and key arguments raised in this chapter are mainly focused on data from a research project on Portuguese skilled emigration. Based on the outcomes of the BRADRAMO2 on-line survey to 1011 highly skilled emigrants it can be suggested that recent phenomena in general, and the crisis that began around 2008 in particular, profoundly transformed the patterns of Portuguese emigration. Nowadays, the country faces a brain drain dynamic that is dramatically altering the profiles of national emigrants, emigration destinations, self-identity, and the strategies of those who leave the country. Academic mobility, mainly that promoted by the European Union (through grants from the Erasmus Program), created and fostered mobility flows that reinforced a latent mobility phenomenon. Once engaged in academic mobility programs, Portuguese higher education students tend to stay in the country of destination or, upon returning temporarily to Portugal, to evince a very strong predisposition to move to a country of the European Union. The profile of Portuguese high-skilled emigrants reveals a trend towards a permanent and a long-term (as opposed to a temporary or transitory) mobility, an insertion in the primary segment of the labor market of the destination countries, a predominance of professionals connected to the academic/scientific system and to professions requiring high skills, and a latent mobility (aft er a period of study in the country of destination) rather than direct mobility flows (after having entered in the employment system of the sending country).

Keywords

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BRAIN DRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; ACADEMIC MOBILITY; DESKILLING; RESKILLING

• Publisher: Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Polska Akademia Umiejętności
• Journal: Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 3 (169)
• Pages: 143–164

Contributors

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Machado Gomes Rui

• Centre for Social Studies-University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Teixeira Lopes João

• Institute of Sociology-University of Porto, Portugal

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Cerdeira Luísa

• Institute of Education-University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Vaz Henrique

• Centre for Research and Intervention in Education-University of Porto, Portugal

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Peixoto Paulo

• Centre for Social Studies-University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Cabrito Belmiro

• Institute of Education-University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Machado-Taylor Maria Lourdes

• Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies- -University of Porto and Aveiro, Portugal

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Brites Rui

• Lisbon School of Economic and Management-University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Patrocínio Tomás

• Institute of Education-University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Ganga Rafaela

• Institute of Sociology-University of Porto, Portugal

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Silva Sílvia

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Silva José Pedro