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Schlagwörter:
Migrant staying, Temporal, Assets, Anchors, Biographies, Linked lives, Retention
Zusammenfassung:
Challenges of weak economic growth, population decline, and labour shortages ledmany countries across the world to introduce immigration policy changes in order toattract foreign migrants. This paper focuses on Japan (Tokyo) and the UK (Birmingham,Edinburgh and Glasgow) given common concerns over long term demographic trendsand the burgeoning lack of labour supply in particular sectors of the economy throughuse of foreign labour. The paper shifts the focus from efforts focused on attracting andselecting foreign labour to the retention of such individuals. Drawing on research withEU migrants in Japan and the UK, the paper highlights how staying may occurafteraperiod of mobility, rather than only being of relevance to those who never left theirhome region. The paper develops a new conceptual framework, which helps toidentify different dimensions that shape migrant staying as a temporal process. It ishighlighted how staying is shaped incrementally and facilitated or undermined overtime in relation to the reciprocal importance of diverse assets, anchors and thechanging biographies of migrants and the places in which they live–as well as therelational aspects of migrants’‘linked lives’
