Precarious talent : highly skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore

• Main Authors: Zhan, Shaohua, Zhou, Min
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology; Precarious Labour; Foreign Talent
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143361
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their strategies of adaptation. We employ the term “precarious talent” to capture an often neglected aspect of skilled migration. Using both survey data and interviews on skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singap...