In this paper, we challenge the popular belief that skilled migrants' skills are non-transferable and argue that skilled migrants often have to accept underemployment as a response to the numerous institutional barriers to employment in the host country labour market. "Among the most fundamental human freedoms is the freedom to move — to leave one place to pursue a better life in another" (Institute for Humane Studies, 2023), and that better life is not possible without a quality job and the acknowledgement of the mobile worker's prior knowledge, skills and experience in the new destination. Our research contributes a voice in clearing the stereotyping and the under-evaluating the skills and experience migrants bring along with them to the host country. This will enhance migrants' mental well-being and contribute to the economic development of migrants’ receiving countries.
