MOBILITÀ E MIGRAZIONI QUALIFICATE NELLA SOCIETÀ DELLA CONOSCENZA. Teorie, processi e prospettive

In contexts with “improved” networking, all forms of mobility - including the geographical mobility of knowledge and workers - appear to be within the range of possibilities and are almost ceaselessly encouraged, sometimes leading to a chain of events that generates new material conditions and new types of ideal that do not always reflect the actual situation. This logic also applies in the case of high-skilled migration, which promotes (or impedes) the circulation of human and social capital, skills and knowledge through mobility (or immobility). From this perspective, exploring the contradictions of the flows of high-skilled migrants entering and leaving different countries and the devices that facilitate or inhibit this circulation, reveals one of the most important dynamics of growth in countries that attract knowledge, and likewise recession, both in countries of origin which become subject to a brain drain, and destination countries which discourage or block this mobility. This paper aims to reconstruct the theoretical debate on skilled migration in the knowledge society context, through a broad and systematic critical analysis of the scientific debate.