CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Joel, Jennifer Obado |
|---|---|
| Title | THE BLUE CARD SCHEME: A VIEW FROM TWO REGIONS |
| Summary | Abstract The world Cities are experiencing an exponential growth in their populations, in particular cities in third world countries. Accompanying the emergence of megacities and concentration of population in particular cities is the challenge of providing adequate infrastructure, housing, employment and social amenities. A corollary to this challenge is the internationalisation of the economy in which the megacity deals not only with its internal challenges but is mandated to adjudicate between its internal social and economic environment as well as staying relevant in the global economy. The urbanisation of economies of megacities has occasioned strategies that seek to confront and leverage on perhaps the highest motivators of population in megacities-influx of rural migrants. Thus, policy makers have to design policies sufficient to attract necessary high skilled workers and investors, while in the same period keeping out a mass of rural workforce seeking opportunities in large cities. Pursuing a cross-regional context, the agenda of this paper is to evaluate contradictions in the Hukou Blue Card Scheme in East Asia and the European Union (EU) Blue Card Scheme. The contrast space being evaluated herein is the challenges of public policies that seek to act as double-edged swords; act as mediums of control and recruitment agendas. Rather than providing recommendations of plausible alternatives to each of these schemes, this paper directed at the academic community, seeks to open new frontiers of engagement on megacities issues, beyond current focus as reflected in dominant literature on the subject. By exploring challenges, nuances, unintended consequences and future effects of the two Blue card schemes, the agenda is to stimulate new studies on megacities, its opportunities and constraints in different contexts |
| Supervisor | Cartwright, Andrew |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/joel_jennifer.pdf |
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