Russian IT specialists and their professional mobility abroad
How to Cite
Zemnukhova L.V. Russian IT specialists and their professional mobility abroad. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2017. Vol. 9. No. 14. P. 5-15.
Abstract
The article considers professional trajectories of IT specialists in the (post-)Soviet world, which appeared to be a mixture of formal structure and informal practices. Whereas the state initiated and promoted the universal system of ubiquitous education stuffed with extracurricular activities, the community of teachers, scientists, and engineers took advantage of infrastructural facilities and were in a way free to bring up a new generation of future IT professionals. The nature of Russian IT training is based on, but not exhaustively with education. The success of Russian techies around the world was also highly determined by social and economic transformations in the post-Soviet countries. Russian IT specialistshad to face difficulties to overcome and challenges to accept. Their professional trajectories have been shaping under conditions of drastic changes of economic situation, so their unique experiences tell much about mobility as means to become visible on the surface of IT world. The study is based on the materials of semi-structured interviews with Russian IT professionals living and working in London.
Keywords:
information technology, professional migration, mobility, engineering culture, Soviet education
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Zemnukhova L. Highly skilled Russian migrants in London: the case of IT professionals // Urban studies and practices. Moscow: National Research University HSE. 2017. 2(1). P. 54–63.
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Zemnukhova, L. V. (2017). Russian IT specialists and their professional mobility abroad. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 9(14), 5-15. Retrieved from https://www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/inter/article/view/5504
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Research discourses: professional work, employment, ethnography
