The labour market incorporation of high-skilled immigrants is of key concern to receiving societies and migrating individuals alike. This paper draws on life-story interviews with 19 high-skilled Eastern Europeans in Denmark to develop a time-geographical trajectory notation for analysing immigrants' individual movements in social space across time. I propose a typology of five paths, each partly shaped by variations in the intersections of individual and historical temporalities. Three of these paths—'re-entry', 'ascent' and 're-education'—lead into the higher parts of the host country labour market, while the two paths of 're-migration' and 'marginalisation' remain outside.
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