This issue focuses upon the highly skilled workers' migrations and their impacts upon a range of players and participants in both the sending and receiving countries.

Four professions are cited as case studies to show that professional inclusion/exclusion is no longer defined by national professional bodies alone. Typologies for analysing professional migration flows are discussed and a sixth means of categorization, by profession or industry, is introduced to allow for the nature of interactions between the market, the state and the profession/industry. (Abstract from issue)