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Rising International Migration of the Highly Skilled Transforms Demographic and Geographic Patterns of Flows in High‐Income Countries: The Case of Switzerland 1966–2019

Lerch, Mathias  
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Wanner, Philippe
June 28, 2025
International Migration

Demographic and economic consequences of international migration in high‐income countries depend on the patterns of flows, which have changed profoundly since WWII. We investigate how the increase in highly skilled migrants shaped the geography of flows, the age, sex and family composition and the international mobility of immigrants in Switzerland between 1966 and 2019. The large‐scale circulation of predominantly male migrants from neighbouring countries in the 1960s transformed into a more permanent inflow alongside a dominance of women and families originating from all over the world in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, the turn of the new Century was marked by a renewed regionalization, ageing and masculinization of immigration, which is focusing on urban agglomeration centres and again characterised by high levels of international mobility. These changes were associated with the rise in highly skilled migration and call for a re‐interpretation of the societal consequences of recent flows.

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research article
DOI
10.1111/imig.70057
Author(s)
Lerch, Mathias  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Wanner, Philippe

University of Geneva

Date Issued

2025-06-28

Publisher

Wiley

Published in
International Migration
Volume

63

Issue

4

Article Number

e70057

Subjects

demographic and geographic profiles of migration

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high-income countries

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highly skilled migration

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international migration

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re-emigration

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Switzerland

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REVIEWED

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EPFL units
GR-URBDEMO  
FunderGrant Number

H2020 European Research Council

MIC‐950065

Available on Infoscience
July 3, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/251870
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