Bilateral (Hong Kong): What Calculations and Strategies Drive Young Migrants? An Investigation of the Traffic Between London, Hong Kong and Beijing

这个项目使用视觉和统计方法的创新组合来调查往返于香港、伦敦和北京之间的年轻移民。1982年至1992年出生、2012年将在22岁至32岁之间的年轻毕业移民，他们已经就业，并已独立移民，这是其关注的重点-处于职业生涯起点的年轻人。在伦敦，它将调查来自北京和香港的移民。在香港，它将调查来自伦敦和北京的移民，在北京，它将调查来自伦敦和香港的移民。它将揭示这些移民流动背后的计算、战略和推理，以及他们是谁和他们为什么沿着这些路线移徙。它将发现他们预计移民会提供哪些资源，以及他们打算如何在生活和职业规划中部署这些资源。它将决定他们如何比较他们在出发和到达城市的机会和生活。这个项目将发现移民意味着什么，以及它如何为这些年轻的移民“工作”。在全球争夺下一代技术移民的背景下，这些都是重要问题。这是双重重要的，因为英国已经改变了学习后工作签证的规则，中国对流动性采取了更自由的态度，而香港为技术工人提供了进出中国的新平台。“人才外流”和“人才流入”关系到中国大陆、香港特别行政区和英国的政府和决策者。目前还没有对这些路线或通过这些路线的年轻移民进行调查。但随着中国的影响力及其吸引的移民不断上升，现在是调查中国与英国和香港之间移民联系的合适时机。移民研究的重点是非技术移民，而不是技术移民和技术移民。它还有一个内在的年龄偏见，忽视了我们项目调查的年轻移民。我们的研究调查了一个未被研究的群体，提供了新的经验材料，揭示了他们的计算和策略。它对移民理论做出了重要贡献，将移民视为经济合理化的延伸，而不是具有复杂经历，生活和决策的人。参与这个项目的香港和英国的专业研究员具备必要的研究技能、研究网络、语言技能和经验，能够汇集英国和中国的重要材料。

This project uses an innovative combination of visual and statistical methods to investigate young migrants traveling between Hong Kong, London, and Beijing. Young graduate migrants born between 1982 and 1992 who will be between 22 and 32 years old in 2012, in employment, and who have migrated independently are its focus - young people at the launch-point of their careers. In London it will investigate migrants from Beijing and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong it will investigate migrants from London and Beijing, and in Beijing it will investigate migrants from London and Hong Kong. It will uncover the calculations, strategies and reasoning behind these migrants' movements, as well as who they are and why they migrate along these routes. It will discover what resources they anticipate migration provides, and how they intend to deploy these in life-and-career planning. It will determine how they compare the opportunities and lives available to them in their departure and arrival cities. This project will discover what migration means and how it 'works' for these young migrants. These are important issues in a context of global competition for the next generation of skilled migrants. It is doubly important as the UK has changed the rules on post-study work visas, China has taken a more liberal attitude to mobility, and Hong Kong provides a new platform for skilled workers moving in and out of China. 'Brain drain' and 'brain gain' concerns governments and policy makers in Mainland China and its Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong as well as the UK.There is no existing investigation of these routes or the young migrants who travel them. But with the rising influence of China and the migrants it draws, this is the right moment to investigate its migration links with the UK and Hong Kong. Migration research is focussed on unskilled arrivals not departures and skill. It also has a built-in age bias which has overlooked the young migrants our project investigates. Our research investigates an un-researched group, providing new empirical material uncovering their calculations and strategies. It make an important contribution to theories of migration which treats migrants as extensions of economic rationalization rather than people with complicated biographies, lives and decision making. The Hong Kong and the UK PIs in this project have the necessary research skills, research networks, linguistic skills and experience to bring together important material that spans the UK and China.