Gender, migration and the global race for talent /Anna Boucher.

Boucher, Anna,

Gender, migration and the global race for talent /Anna Boucher. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally discriminate on gender grounds. Presenting the first book-length account of the global race for talent from a gender perspective, this text is aimed at graduate students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of immigration studies, political science, public policy, sociology and gender studies and Australian and Canadian studies.



9781784997137


Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Labor market--Sex differences.
Women immigrants.


Electronic Books.

HD6300 / .G463 2016