ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a review of the relationship between employment and migration, focussing particularly on how this is manifested in terms of employability. Employability is the ‘ability to bring a particular kind of knowledge to a task, and be able to collaborate effectively with others to achieve a common task’ (Bentley, 1998: 103). This has two aspects, which broadly equate to quantitative and qualitative dimensions. In ‘quantitative’ terms, employability can be understood to encompass the ability of migrants to secure jobs, to maintain these and to obtain other jobs, whether by choice or as a consequence of labour market restructuring. In contrast, in qualitative terms it can be understood to implicate the types of jobs obtained and how these relate to the skills, competences and knowledge of the migrants.
