IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envira/v46y2014i4p963-979.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

International Migration and Local Emplacement: Everyday Place-Making Practices of Skilled Migrants in Oslo, Norway

Author

Listed:
  • Micheline van Riemsdijk

    (Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, 304 Burchfiel Geography Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-0925, USA)

Abstract

Literatures on skilled migration have predominantly investigated migration flows at the global and international scale, paying less attention to the local experiences of skilled migrants. Recently, scholars have called for studies that locally ground literatures on transnationalism and diasporas through studies of everyday practices. Such a perspective provides a more nuanced understanding of the local incorporation of skilled migrants and local politics of belonging. Drawing on an empirical study of foreign-born information technology specialists in Oslo, Norway, this paper investigates the ways in which skilled migrants create local spaces and places of belonging, and the actors and institutions that are involved in this place-making process. In particular, this paper brings together literatures on international migration, place, and belonging to provide insights into the local incorporation of skilled migrants. The findings underline the salience of history and locality in geographies of belonging, and the necessity to address the experiences of “ordinary†skilled migrants in integration debates.

Suggested Citation

  • Micheline van Riemsdijk, 2014. "International Migration and Local Emplacement: Everyday Place-Making Practices of Skilled Migrants in Oslo, Norway," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(4), pages 963-979, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:46:y:2014:i:4:p:963-979
    DOI: 10.1068/a46234
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a46234
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1068/a46234?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Franz Buhr & Jennifer McGarrigle, 2017. "Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 226-234.
    2. Jörg Plöger & Susanne Kubiak, 2019. "Becoming ‘the Internationals’—how Place Shapes the Sense of Belonging and Group Formation of High-Skilled Migrants," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 307-321, February.
    3. Micheline Riemsdijk & Scott Basford, 2022. "Integration of Highly Skilled Migrants in the Workplace: a Multi-level Framework," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 633-654, June.
    4. Diane van den Broek & Dimitria Groutsis, 2017. "Global nursing and the lived experience of migration intermediaries," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 31(5), pages 851-860, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:46:y:2014:i:4:p:963-979. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.