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Title:
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NEW LIVES ABROAD: MOBILITY STRATEGIES OF ICT PROFESSIONALS |
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Author(s):
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Ana M. González Ramos, Núria Vergés Bosch |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-36-6 |
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Editors:
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Gunilla Bradley, Diane Whitehouse and Gurmit Singh |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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International Mobility, careers, gender and ICT, global labour market. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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187 |
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Last Page:
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191 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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The internationalization of economic activities has increased the flows of highly skilled personnel for training and working purposes. As a result, the role of mobility as a professional strategy to reach higher professional goals has increased. The prevailing approach stresses individual and professional factors instead of personal and collective ones as the motor of mobility among highly skilled personnel. Collective factors such as family friends and social identities are surely involved in the decision to go, live and work abroad, and affect personal strategies towards developing a professional career and/or a particular lifestyle. There could also be unaccounted for personal factors such as the desire to experience the adventure of living abroad. Our research explores the motivations behind the decisions of ICT professionals to move abroad, while discerning the personal and collective factors involved in their mobility strategy. The results of our research show that it is necessary to pay more attention to personal as well as collective factors when designing mobility polices and measures in order to promote more equitable opportunities in the labour market. |
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