New Publications

This book chapter provides an overview of trends in high-skilled migration policy in 31 European countries, elucidating how these policies, along with other drivers of migration, shape high-skilled migration using a multi-disciplinary approach.

Transformations in the world of work have been supported by technological advances and, most recently, changing socio-cultural norms accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Expanded acceptance of – and desires for – remote working have underpinned the growth of ‘location-independent’ work, or ‘anywhere jobs’: skilled and relatively well-paid jobs that can be done from any location, facilitated by digital technologies. 

Multilingual Challenges: Empirical Social Research in Migration Societies, Transnational Spaces, and International Contexts (2026, Volume 14) 

This short contribution, written by MACIMIDE researcher Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser, is situated at the intersection of three global contradictions.