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UFJ
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Does International brain drain exist?
March 5, 2007 - 10:26 PM
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Many foreign nationals left home from all parts of the world supposedly, pursuing freedom and education in the United States. The purpose was gain the knowledge and wealth and apply it back home to their native land. But in fact in many cases it never happen.
As result scores of foreign nationals living in the United States and around
the world. Oppose their respective living standards and governments at home.
Yet many have remain in the respective countries years later and suffer daily,
with anxiety and feelings of estranged from their respective home land.
Many suffer great disillusionment and rejection in most cases which exceeds,
well over 30 years now.
Mr. Bey
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This post was edited on: 2007-03-06 at 02:17 AM by: UFJ
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Mariana Gonzalez Rodriguez
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Re: Does International brain drain exist?
March 6, 2007 - 12:40 PM
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It is actually interesting to come across this topic as I currently writing an essay for my International Economics Class on the brain drain and brain gain. Coming from a developing country where both skilled and unskilled labor immigrate mainly to the United States, I can assure you that the impact it has both on the home and host country is tremendous. On one side you have the positive aspects of labor migration which mean remittances and higher opportunities for our people, however then you have all the long list of negative costs of this happening: families being split apart, the culture shock, putting their lives in danger to cross illegally into the US.
Economists the world over are trying to find and prove that labor migration (both skilled and unskilled) is something inevitable and that will (if worked with positively) benefit both the host and home countries. However, it is my opinion that at least for the case of Mexico, the government needs to work on incentives to make people stay in the country rather than push them away. From a very cold and cynical point of view, labor migration works for Mexico, especially remittance wise (I believe a year ago it made up for 20% of our GDP - not sure so don't quote me on it), however the social and psychological costs are not worth it.
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Re: Does International brain drain exist?
March 9, 2007 - 07:14 AM
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This thread is being moved to Learning and Education board where it belongs ...
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Patricia Sudi
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March 9, 2007 - 11:08 AM
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Yeah,i believe there is not only international brain drain but also drain of our cultural identities when we migrate to developed countries especially the states iin search of education and greener pastures and end up remainig there instead of returning back to ourown countries with the knowl;edge gained.
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Re: Does International brain drain exist?
March 11, 2007 - 11:44 AM
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I see no reason why a human being needs to be under any obligation to eventually live within the borders of the country in which they were born.
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UFJ
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Does International brain drain exist?
March 11, 2007 - 11:49 PM
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One must feel a sense of personal obligation and contribution to home and family.
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Oliebol
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Re: Does International brain drain exist?
March 16, 2007 - 03:21 PM
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Its funny you know here in Australia we are like a middle conduit for this brain drain. We loose lots of good Australian born highly educated professionals to the US and Europe. But we also entice lost of highly educated professionals from Asia to move to Australia. Its almost like a catch-up game seeing if we can import more than we export. Kind of like a current account deficit in knowledge.
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