Highly skilled migration
In recent decades migration issues have moved closer to the top of the policy agendas of public authorities at all levels of government. Migration issues are have become the subject of regular debates at local, regional, national, international and even supranational governing bodies, each of them addressing various migration issues from their own perspectives and with various concerns and interests. Common to most debates on the optimal formulation of policies for the regulation of economic migration are the underlying questions of how to enhance the benefits of migration, while at the same time minimizing the negative social and economic effects for one’s own constituency. It is in this context that the topic of migration of the highly skilled has once again assumed great prominence both from the receiving and the sending side perspectives.
This document suggests a few issues for consideration in the formulation of policies on skilled migration.