Sophie Cranston is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests include skilled international migration, the Global Mobility Industry and the relationship between youth mobility and global identities. Joris Schapendonk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Radboud University, The Netherlands; and researcher at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research. His research concentrates on African im/mobility trajectories and European borders.Ernst Spaan is Assistant Professor of International Public Health at the Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, The Netherlands. His research interests concern population and development, international migration systems, environmental change impacts on health and livelihoods, and health systems reform in developing countries.

• Introduction: New directions in exploring the migration industries 1. Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry 2. Facilitating labour migration from Latvia: strategies of various categories of intermediaries 3. Enabling, structuring and creating elite transnational lifestyles: intermediaries of the super-rich and the elite mobilities industry 4. Adapting to change in the higher education system: international student mobility as a migration industry 5. Calculating the migration industries: knowing the successful expatriate in the Global Mobility Industry 6. Intermediaries and destination reputations: explaining flows of skilled migration 7. Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control 8. Migration decision-making and migration industry in the Indonesia–Malaysia corridor

Sophie Cranston is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests include skilled international migration, the Global Mobility Industry and the relationship between youth mobility and global identities. Joris Schapendonk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Radboud University, The Netherlands; and researcher at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research. His research concentrates on African im/mobility trajectories and European borders.Ernst Spaan is Assistant Professor of International Public Health at the Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, The Netherlands. His research interests concern population and development, international migration systems, environmental change impacts on health and livelihoods, and health systems reform in developing countries.

• Introduction: New directions in exploring the migration industries 1. Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry 2. Facilitating labour migration from Latvia: strategies of various categories of intermediaries 3. Enabling, structuring and creating elite transnational lifestyles: intermediaries of the super-rich and the elite mobilities industry 4. Adapting to change in the higher education system: international student mobility as a migration industry 5. Calculating the migration industries: knowing the successful expatriate in the Global Mobility Industry 6. Intermediaries and destination reputations: explaining flows of skilled migration 7. Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control 8. Migration decision-making and migration industry in the Indonesia–Malaysia corridor

Sophie Cranston is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests include skilled international migration, the Global Mobility Industry and the relationship between youth mobility and global identities. Joris Schapendonk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Radboud University, The Netherlands; and researcher at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research. His research concentrates on African im/mobility trajectories and European borders.Ernst Spaan is Assistant Professor of International Public Health at the Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, The Netherlands. His research interests concern population and development, international migration systems, environmental change impacts on health and livelihoods, and health systems reform in developing countries.

• Introduction: New directions in exploring the migration industries 1. Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry 2. Facilitating labour migration from Latvia: strategies of various categories of intermediaries 3. Enabling, structuring and creating elite transnational lifestyles: intermediaries of the super-rich and the elite mobilities industry 4. Adapting to change in the higher education system: international student mobility as a migration industry 5. Calculating the migration industries: knowing the successful expatriate in the Global Mobility Industry 6. Intermediaries and destination reputations: explaining flows of skilled migration 7. Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control 8. Migration decision-making and migration industry in the Indonesia–Malaysia corridor