Browsing by Author "Zewde, Hewan A."

International students are thought to enhance campus diversity and augment skilled workforce globally. After completing their studies abroad, a considerable number of international students are likely to remain in the countries where they conducted their higher education. They seek to join the labour market using the skills they have acquired from the long academic years. Nevertheless, many- particularly from the global south-are seen to struggle finding jobs that match their skills and educational positions, thus ending up working in areas well below their qualifications. Many Ethiopian skilled migrants, who originally came as students, work in the lower echelons of the labour market in Finland. The study aims to investigate why Ethiopian skilled migrants work in areas below their qualifications. It draws on the data by interviewing 10 Ethiopian skilled migrants who originally came to pursue their tertiary education in Finland. Using the theoretical discussions on Critical Race Theory, mobilities paradigm and immigration controls, the study demonstrates how the labour choices of Ethiopian skilled migrants are shaped by discriminatory and institutional constraints. It reveals skill is racialised and socially constructed, and is biased against Ethiopian skilled migrants. The study also shows that Finnish immigration policies contribute to the deskilling of Ethiopian migrants.