• DOI:10.1002/PSP.2463
• Corpus ID: 233698894

Interjecting the geographies of skills into international skilled migration research: Political economy and ethics for a renewed research agenda

@article{Raghuram2021InterjectingT,
  title={Interjecting the
 geographies of skills
 into international skilled migration research: Political economy and ethics for a renewed research agenda},
  author={Parvati Raghuram},
  journal={Population, Space and Place},
  year={2021}
}

• P. Raghuram
• Published 12 March 2021
• Geography
• Population, Space and Place

Correspondence Parvati Raghuram, Department of Geography, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK. Email: [e-mail] Abstract There is now a large literature on skilled migration, which uses multiple definitions, concepts, theories and understandings of skilled migrants. However, this research has not adequately considered the geographies of skills—the spatial and temporal relations through which skills get meaning, are accrued and claimed and their outcomes and how these shape and are shaped by skilled mobilities and migration. This paper explores sites and networks as two interrelated elements of a geography of skills in order to highlight how they have prescribed, produced, prevailed and precluded who attains the skills to migrate. The paper goes on to outline how and why the geographies of skills and skilled migration matter in contemporary knowledge capitalism and the ethical issues they raise for a renewed research agenda on skilled migration. Crucially, it suggests that the spatio-temporal configurations of skills raise not only empirical and analytical questions but also normative ones about the politics and ethics of skilling.