Capital Mobilization of Skilled Migrants: A Relational Perspective

By Akram Al Ariss, Jawad Syed. 2011

242 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fe7f4ef56c35405a94d4ec6361968a58731d5136

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Communication

In Political Science and International Relations

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Skilled migrants' career capital as a source of competitive advantage: implications for strategic HRM (2015, methodology): “The same study also finds accumulation of local social capital to be challenging, while deployment of social capital was influenced by factors such as gender and ethnicity (Al Ariss & Syed, 2011).”
The skill paradox: explaining and reducing employment discrimination against skilled immigrants (2015, background): “…fit; social identity theory Skilled immigrants are increasingly becoming an important part of Western labor forces, leading many organizations to devise strategic human resource management (HRM) practices targeting these employees (e.g. Al Ariss & Syed, 2011; Zikic, Bonache, & Cerdin, 2010).”
Theorizing the meaning(s) of ‘expatriate’: establishing boundary conditions for business expatriates (2016, background): “There are now, for example, texts that use the term ‘expatriate’ to describe all categories of international movers including migrants (Al Ariss & Syed, 2011), while others take precisely the opposite view – ‘the expatriate has migrant status’ (Andresen et al., 2014, p. 2308).”
Organizational expatriates and self-initiated expatriates: differences in cross-cultural adjustment and job satisfaction (2013, background): “Another interview study on skilled Lebanese in Paris shows that social, cultural, economic and symbolic capital facilitate SIEs’ international mobility (Al Ariss and Syed 2011).”
Refugees' career capital welcome? Afghan and Syrian refugee job seekers in Austria (2018, background): “Skilled migrants' most useful resources are personal contacts in the host country, professional and educational networks, academic qualifications, skills, prior knowledge of the host culture, visas, economic support by the family, bursaries, and scholarships (Al Ariss & Syed, 2011; Fossland, 2013).”
Self‐initiated expatriates and their career success (2012, background): “Of course, many SIEs may decide to settle down permanently in the host country and become immigrants for family reasons (Al Ariss and Syed, 2011, Harvey, 2009).”