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Acknowledgements -- Introduction: rethinking international skilled migration -- International student migration -- Producing international student migration : an exploration of the role of marketization in shaping international study opportunities / ALLAN FINDLAY, RUSSELL KING, AND ALEXANDRA STAM -- Complex decisions : factors determining international students' migrations / HEIKE ALBERTS -- European mobile students, (trans)national social networks and (inter)national career perspectives / CHRISTOF VAN MOL -- Mental health and the student-migrant experience : sources of stress for norwegian quota scheme students / SCOTT BASFORD -- Chinese student migrants in transition : a pathway from international students to skilled migrants / AN YU -- Internationalization, localization and the eduscape of higher education in the global south : the case of south africa / ASHLEY GUNTER AND PARVATI RAGHURAM -- Transforming cities, transforming lives -- "London is a much more interesting place than paris" : place-comparison and the moral geographies of highly skilled migrants / JON MULHOLLAND AND LOUISE RYAN -- High-skilled migrants, place ties and urban policy-making : putting housing on the agenda / JÖRG PLÖGER -- Homogenizing the city: place marketing to attract skilled migrants to Stavanger and Kongsberg / MICHELINE VAN RIEMSDIJK -- Expatriate mobility, firm recruitment, and local context : skilled international migration to the rapidly globalizing city of dubai / MICHAEL C. EWERS AND RYAN DICCE -- Transnational lives and return migration -- Exodus, circulation and return : migrations of high-skilled migrants from India in a transnational era / ELIZABETH CHACKO -- Immigration policy change and the transnational shaping of place / MARGARET WALTON-ROBERTS -- Experiences of returned chinese migrants in higher education examined through a case study / QINGFANG WANG, LI TANG, AND HUIPING LI -- Diverging experiences of work and social networks abroad : highly-skilled british migrants in Singapore, Vancouver, and Boston / WILLIAM S. HARVEY AND JONATHAN V. BEAVERSTOCK -- Conclusion. themes, gaps, and opportunities for rethinking international skilled migration / HARALD BAUDER -- Index.