ISSN 0976-271X ISSN 0976-271X JNU IMDS Working Paper Series International Migration and Diaspora Studies (IMDS) Project is a research facility at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies (ZHCES), School of Social Sciences (SSS) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The project also hosts Working Paper Nos. 58–60 the Research Programme in International Migration instituted at the Centre by an agreement between June, 2013 Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), Government of India. The project aims to conduct and facilitate research on major migration Incorporation of Skilled Migrants in a Host Country: Insights from the themes of significance in Indian as well as global contexts. Study of Skilled Indians in Switzerland The focus is to undertake research on various economic, Metka Hercog and GabrielaTejada social, political, cultural, and educational aspects of Migration, Return and Coping Patterns: A Study of Gulf Returnees in globalisation and migration; and to initiate collaborative Andhra Pradesh, India Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Trilok C. Goud interactions with other academic institutions and Growing Relevance of Modern Indian Diaspora for India's international organisations on major migration issues. The International Relations emphasis of these initiatives is on creating an interface Ujjwal Rabidas between academia and policy making through workshops, conferences, teaching modules, publications, hosting of visiting scholars and other interactive pursuits. 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Ronald Skeldon Binod Khadria WP 23 - Indian Immigrant Labour in Malaya during the Economic Crisis of the 1930s Available at - http://www.jnu.ac.in/Library/IMDSWorkingPapers.htm IMDS Working Paper Series Working Paper Nos. 58–60 June, 2013 International Migration and Diaspora Studies Project Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi-110 067, India Contents Working Paper No. 58 Incorporation of Skilled Migrants in a Host Country: Insights from the Study of Skilled Indians in Switzerland 1 Metka Hercog and Gabriela Tejada Working Paper No. 59 Migration, Return and Coping Patterns: A Study of Gulf Returnees in Andhra Pradesh, India 17 Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Trilok C. Goud Working Paper No. 60 Growing Relevance of Modern Indian Diaspora for India’s International Relations 31 Ujjwal Rabidas Working Paper No. 58 Incorporation of Skilled Migrants in a Host Country: Insights from the Study of Skilled Indians in Switzerland Metka Hercog Gabriela Tejada Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Abstract It is commonly accepted that mobility of people, especially of highly-skilled workers, has acquired a much more temporary character. Such fluid patterns of mobility call to attention the need to observe in what way highly-skilled migrants at present relate to their host societies, in the face of lasting expectations to relocate. This paper presents a case study of Indian migrants in Switzerland, who are characteristic for short-term stays. Nearly half of all Indians with tertiary education stay in Switzerland for less than five years. The selection of Switzerland as