Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Female High-Skill Migration: Concepts and Dynamics; 1 Female High-Skill Migration in the 21st Century: The Challenge of the Recession; 2 European Policies to Attract Talent: The Crisis and Highly Skilled Migration Policy Changes; 3 Female High-Skilled Emigration from Southern Europe and Ireland after the Crisis; 4 Crisis and Beyond: Intra-EU Mobility of Polish and Spanish Migrants in a Comparative Perspective; Part II: Female High-Skill Migration: A Sector-Specific Approach.
5 Migration of Nurses and Doctors in the EU and the European Free Trade Association6 Migration of Engineers and the Gender Dimension; 7 Southern European Highly Skilled Female Migrants in Male-Dominated Sectors in Times of Crisis: A Look into the IT and Engineering Sectors; 8 International Students' Mobility, Gender Dimension and Crisis; 9 Exploring the Intersecting Impact of Gender and Citizenship on Spatial and Academic Career Mobility; Part III: Problems and Solutions: Towards a New Understanding of the Female High-Skill Migrant in Europe.
10 The Problem of Skill Waste among Highly Skilled Migrant Women in the UK Care Sector11 American Women in Southern Europe: A New Source of High-Skill Workforce for the Eurocrisis Zone; 12 Re-Thinking the Gender Dimension of High-Skill Migration; Index.

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.