Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.

PART I: FEMALE HIGH SKILL MIGRATION: CONCEPTS AND DYNAMICS1. Introduction. Female High Skill Migration in the 21st Century: The Challenge of the Recession; Irina Isaakyan; Anna Triandafyllidou2. European Policies to Attract Talent: The Crisis and Highly Skilled Migration Policy Changes; Lucie Cerna; Mathias Czaika3. Female High Skilled Emigration from Southern Europe and Ireland After the Crisis; Anna Triandafyllidou; Carmen Gonzalez-Enriquez4. Crisis and Beyond: Intra-EU Mobility of Polish and Spanish Migrants in a Comparative Perspective; Pawel Kaczmarczyk; Mikolaj Stanek PART II: FEMALE HIGH SKILL MIGRATION: A SECTOR-SPECIFIC APPROACH 5. Migration of Nurses and Doctors in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association; Gilles Dussault; James Buchan; Isabel Craveiro 6. Migration of Engineers and the Gender Dimension; Matthew Dixon7. Southern European Highly Skilled Female Migrants in Male-Dominated Sectors in Times of Crisis: A Look into the IT and Engineering Sectors; Ruby Gropa; Laura Bartolini8. International Students Mobility, Gender Dimension and Crisis; Marta Moskal9. Exploring the Intersecting Impact of Gender and Citizenship on Spatial and Academic Career Mobility; Kyoko ShinozakiPART III: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS: TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE FEMALE HIGH-SKILL MIGRANT IN EUROPE10. The Problem Of Skill Waste Among Highly Skilled Migrant Women In The UK Care Sector; Sondra Cuban 11. American Women in Southern Europe: A New Source of High Skill Workforce for the Eurocrisis Zone; Irina Isaakyan 12. Re-Thinking the Gender Dimension of High Skill Migration; Anna Triandafyllidou; Irina Isaakyan