As part of the GS4S project and its sister project Link4Skills, the open-access book Fair Skilled Mobility: A Manifesto, edited by Izabela Grabowska and Mary Boatemaa, has recently been published.
In a world where demographic shifts, rapid technological advancements connected to automation and AI-enhancement, and evolving economic landscapes are reshaping labour markets, this book serves as a guide for ‘doing’ skilled migration, highlighting shared development, social inclusion and economic resilience opportunities. Seeking to provoke and inspire policymakers, researchers and practitioners, the book sets out a manifesto for transparent, fair and sustainable migration skill infrastructure, based on 13 theses. Based on extensive original data from across the Link4Skills consortium and its sister projects GS4S and SKILLS4JUSTICE across at least 15 countries of origin and 15 countries of destinations, the book addresses critical issues such as the depletion of labour markets in origin countries and the challenges of skill recognition and labour market integration and retention in destination countries.
This important new book will be a breath of fresh air for researchers, practitioners and policymakers looking for possible solutions to global migration skill flow challenges.
The book includes a contribution by Colleen Boland, Tesseltje de Lange, Ksenija Ivanovic and Erica Schimmel, entitled “Pursuing an ethical labour migration process in transnational recruitment”.
The collection focuses on fair and ethical forms of labour migration and international recruitment of workers, and brings together insights from various disciplines and international perspectives.
The book is available as open access. View and and download the book here