@article{2025:palinko:danish_mun,
title = {Danish municipalities’ efforts in attracting and retaining skilled migrants: Towards a discourse analysis of how municipal measures frame skilled migrants},
year = {2025},
note = {Motivated by the growing political and economic significance of global
talent mobility, this study focuses on municipal initiatives that aim
to foster inclusion and retention. The purpose of this paper is to
examine how Danish municipalities contribute to attracting and
retaining highly skilled migrants through local initiatives and
discursive practices. It further examines how highly skilled migrants
interpret, negotiate, and respond to such institutional
representations and contributes to broader discussions on migration,
integration, and identity construction in municipal contexts. Despite
strong national recruitment policies, Denmark continues to face
challenges in retaining international professionals, which highlights
a gap between attraction strategies and migrants’ lived experiences.
This research note addresses this issue by setting a research agenda
for exploring how municipal programmes construct the identities of
highly skilled migrants through communication and events, and how
migrants respond to these constructions.},
journal = {Culture, Practice & Europeanization},
pages = {98--109},
author = {Palinko, Gulsabah and Lueg, Klarissa},
volume = {10},
number = {1}
}