Submission Issue: MIGRATION 'MANAGEMENT':
Tensions, Challenges, and Opportunities for Inclusion
Submission deadline: 1-May 2020
Guest Editors:Dimitria Groutsis(The University of Sydney); Joana Vassilopoulou(Brunel University & Rotterdam School of Management); Mustafa Ozbilgin(Brunel University & Dauphine University); Yuka Fujimoto(Sunway University Business School); Michàlle E. Mor Barak(University of Southern California); Royston Greenwood(University of Alberta), Junqi Shi(Sun Yat-Sen University)
The term 'migration management' (Ghosh, 1993; 2012) has grown from and been used at the macro policy level: drawing attention to the need to rationally adjust migration flows while evoking images of a controlled,linear and coordinated process and system of international mobility. This special issue focusses on acknowledging, critiquing and investigating the global challenges and opportunities surrounding (international) migration management, providing fertile ground for empirical and theoretical exploration and discovery at multiple levels of analysis and within multiple contexts and therefore taking a broader and critical view of the coupling of migration and management.
The terms 'migrant', 'refugee' and more recently 'self-initiated expatriate' are loaded with multifaceted and multilayered imagery which has an ambiguous reality around the individualdesire for economic and social opportunity, freedom and safety; the organizational drivers for capitalizing on skills, exploiting vulnerabilities and managing multicultural teams and ethnic minority differences; and the national and supranational drivers for regulating the number and quality of flows or mobilities of workers (migrants or refugees), while driving either social/organizational exclusion or social/organizational inclusion (de la Chaux et. al., 2018; Mor Barak, 2018; Villadsen & Wulff, 2018). These considerations capture aspects of questions raised by business and management scholars examining various dimensions of migration and inclusion from sociological, oraganizational and managerial perspectives (Al Ariss & Ozbilgin., 2010; Al Ariss et al., 2013; Mor Barak, 2017). However, the management of the opportunities and the barriers experienced by migrant women and men, remain poorly understood (Kofman et. al., 2015; Pio & Essers, 2014), particularly the agency and voice of migrants at work, the role of organizations and various institutional stakeholders in the process of migration management, and the role of stakeholders in the process of workplace inclusion. Each of these focal points remains largely limited to a single level of analysis (Mor Barak, 2018).
Notably, our scoping of extant scholarship highlights that migration and management are rarely studied together, particularly in terms of business and management scholarship. In rare instances when this is done, the examination often remains at a single level of a
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Dimitria Groutsis
University of Sydney
Sydney
+61 2 9351 2485
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