“Algeria vs Unemployment”: The Expatriation of Spaniards in Algeria as a Job Opportunity
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https://doi.org/10.14422/mig.i43.y2017.002Keywords:
High-skilled mobility, Spanish expatriates, transnationalism, precarisation, AlgeriaAbstract
High skilled transnational mobility between Spain and Algeria increased due to the intensification of the bilateral relationships, giving rise to a North-South mobility. The foreign enterprises set up in Algeria encouraged the high skilled mobilities as way to develop their professional careers in good labour conditions. Economic and social crisis provoked the intensification of the transnational mobility and emigration to Algeria, adding new actors like entrepreneurs and people unemployed who search for a job even in irregular condition. From a qualitative perspective, this paper focusses on analyse how the crisis reshaped the mobility of the Spanish expatriates, who changed privileges for precarisation, in a context perceived as adverse but necessary to avoid the unemployment in Spain.
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