Yes / This study explores the impact of city-specific factors on skilled migrants’ career capital
within the intelligent career framework. It compares global and secondary cities as
distinct career landscapes and examines how differently they shape development and
utilisation of three ways of knowing (knowing-how, knowing-whom and knowingwhy). Findings from 82 qualitative interviews with skilled migrants in global (London)
and secondary (Newcastle) UK cities explain the importance of cities at an analytical
level, as skilled migrants’ careers were differently constrained and enabled by three
groups of city-specific factors: labour market, community and lifestyle. By exploring
the two types of cities in career context, this article contributes to developing an
interdisciplinary dialogue and problematises careers as a relational and contextually
embedded phenomenon. Limitations and recommendations are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/18255 |
| Date | 14 December 2020 |
| Creators | Kozhevnikov, Andrew |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | (c) 2021 The Author. This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) |
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