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Highly educated migration has been increasing during the past years and is likely to continue doing so in the future because of improved educational levels worldwide, the move to the knowledge-based economy and growing skills shortages. Despite the importance of highly educated migration and increased interest in the topic by policy makers, employers and scholars alike, the understanding of the field remains insufficient. The aim of this dissertation is to add to a better understanding of the phenomenon of highly educated migration, using an interdisciplinary and mixed methods approach that brings in the views of employers and migrants themselves. The dissertation is paper-based and includes four key analytical chapters that can be read independently. The dissertation structure mirrors the different stages in the migration process from (employers) attracting migrants, (Chapter 2) to migrants’ experiences with settling-in (Chapter 3) and the formation of spatial intentions (Chapter 3), to realising these intentions (Chapter 4). All chapters have important implications for the retention of highly educated migrants.

	Selected publications by Julia Reinold
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Hooijen, Inge, Christoph Meng & Julia Reinold, 2020, `Be prepared for the unexpected: The gap between (im)mobility intentions and subsequent behaviour of recent higher education graduates, Population Space and Place, 26, More information
Reinold, Julia, 2018, `Migration and Education: International Student Mobility, Tijdschrift VN Forum, 2017-2, More information
Merkle, Ortrun, Julia Reinold & Melissa Siegel, 2018, `Corruption, Gender and Migration, 2018 Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum, More information
Hooijen, Inge, Christoph Meng, Julia Reinold & Melissa Siegel, 2017, `Competition for talent, European Planning Studies, 25, More information
Book chapters
Merkle, Ortrun, Julia Reinold & Melissa Siegel, 2020, Shaping the migration journey – the role of corruption, in: Maty Konte and Linguère Mously Mbaye (eds), Migration, Remittances, and Sustainable Development in Africa, Routledge, Abingdon/New York, More information
Research reports
Cörvers, Frank, Julia Reinold, Saena Chakkar, Francesco Bolzonella & Vera Ronda, 2021, Literature review labour migration. An exploratory study into the shortages of qualified personnel at the upper secondary vocational level and the possibilitiesrnand limitations of employing migrants, WODC rapport 3248, More information
Reinold, Julia, 2021, Highly educated migrants' perceptions of the Euregional welcome culture, Study commissioned by the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) in the framework of the INTERREG-V-A project youRegion, More information
Dietrich, Stephan, Aline Meysonnat, Victor Cebotari, Julia Reinold, Franziska Gassmann, Inez Roosen & Neil Foster-McGregor, 2018, Key Drivers of the Changing Prevalence of Child Marriage in Three Countries in South Asia, UNICEF, Kathmandu, Nepal, More information
Marchand, Katrin, Julia Reinold & Raphael Dias e Silva, 2017, Study on Migration Routes in the East and Horn of Africa, Study commissioned by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, More information
Dietrich, S., Aline Meysonnat, Victor Cebotari, Julia Reinold, Franziska Gassmann, Inez Roosen & Neil Foster-McGregor, 2017, Key Drivers of the Changing Prevalence of Child Marriage in South Asia, Report commissioned by UNICEF/UNFPA South Asia
Hoogenboom, Alexander & Julia Reinold, 2017, Cross-border (Im)mobility of Students from Third Countries in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (Dossier 4), Maastricht: Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM), More information
Merkle, Ortrun, Julia Reinold & Melissa Siegel, 2017, A Gender Perspective on Corruption Encountered during Forced and Irregular Migration, comissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), More information
Merkle, Ortrun, Julia Reinold & Melissa Siegel, 2017, A Study on the Link between Corruption and the Causes of Migration and Forced Displacement, comissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), More information
Marchand, Katrin, Inez Roosen, Julia Reinold & Melissa Siegel, 2017, Irregular Migration from and in the East and Horn of Africa, Report commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in the framework of the EU-funded Better Migration Management (BMM) Programme, More information
Reinold, Julia, Inez Roosen, Alexander Hoogenboom, Ingrid Westendorp & Katharina Koch, 2016, International Marriage Brokers and Mail Order Brides. Analysing the need for regulation, The study was requested by the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and commissioned, overseen and published by the Policy Department for Citizen’s Rights and Constitutional Affairs, More information
Theses
Reinold, Julia, 2023, Essays on Attracting and Retaining Highly Educated Migrants, PhD dissertation Maastricht University