This article explores how highly skilled migrants make sense of and subjectively validate their skills when in search of employment in a new country. With the use of a transnational perspective, we suggest that in the context of migration, skills can only be properly understood if we consider the multiple locations and events in people's life trajectories. In addition to foregrounding the spatial context, we also explore skills through a temporal perspective. The country of origin, previous countries of migration, receiving context and future destinations, and past experiences and future plans can all play a role in the way individuals make sense of and subjectively validate what migrants themselves consider to be their skills. Drawing upon qualitative research among highly skilled migrants in Switzerland, we examine how personal and professional skills intertwine with each other when people engage with a given yet evolving socio-economic environment.

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移动中的技能：瑞士及其他地区的高技能移民

本文探讨了高技能移民在新国家寻找工作时如何理解并主观验证他们的技能。使用跨国视角，我们建议在移民的背景下，只有考虑到人们生活轨迹中的多个地点和事件，才能正确理解技能。除了突出空间背景外，我们还通过时间视角探索技能。原籍国、以前的移民国家、接收国背景和未来目的地、过去的经历和未来的计划都可以在个人理解和主观验证移民自己认为是他们的技能的方式中发挥作用。借鉴瑞士高技能移民的定性研究，