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Documented Migrants: Skilled Migration — the injects

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International Migration into Europe

Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship ((MDC))

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In the 1990s, the then US presidential candidate Ross Perot talked about the ‘sucking sound’ made as American jobs went south of the border. Nowadays, there is a significant ‘sucking sound’ in the globalised world, made by migrants leaving developing countries and heading to the developed world; new migrants often bring skills with them.

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Lazaridis, G. (2015). Documented Migrants: Skilled Migration — the injects . In: International Migration into Europe. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137384966_3

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