Substituting, Differentiating, Discriminating! Migration and Cognitive Borders in Aging Societies

Francesco Maniglio
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Francesco Maniglio: University of Brasilia, Brazil

Migration Letters, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 489-499

Abstract: Both Legislators and demographers have shown concerns about the aging of populations in the global North countries, and, for over two decades, have suggested encouraging migrations to make up for its effects. As a result, qualified and highly qualified migration have boomed, reflecting the global consolidation of migrant labor in technological, scientific and financial sectors. This substitution migration policy, however, is put into question from a knowledge-based economical and political perspective, since, by disregarding the relationship between labor productivity transformations and demographic crisis, it fails to see important processes whereby immigrants are differentially included. Moreover, we want to reject the philanthropic and optimistic views of globalization, as consolidated in formulations such as “brain gain” and “brain circulation”, which emphasize the generalized positive effects of qualified workers’ migration. Instead, we suggest delving into the cognitiveinjustice of international migration processes, which are part of a greater global social injustice pattern. Indeed, rather than reproducing the discourse of mobility, democracy and human rights, we assert that selective immigration policies effectively consolidate the reproduction of global social inequalities.

Keywords: Aging societies; replacement migration; highly qualified migrations; cognitive borders; cognitive injustice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.33182/ml.v19i4.1547

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