| African Brain Circulation: Beyond the Drain-Gain Debate Contributor(s): Patterson, Rubin |
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ISBN: 9004158855 ISBN-13: 9789004158856 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $143.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: Transnational society is a new field of study, just as brain circulation is a new development strategy for the global South. This book contributes to the growing scholarship on transnational society and brain circulation, thus highlighting the dynamic social practices already underway |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Labor - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 331.127 |
| LCCN: 2007024966 |
| Series: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book, discussions on African brain circulation and transnational society provide new insights and point to fertile research and policy agendas. Today, a globally important dilemma concerns citizens who either depart from their homeland to enhance their life chances in a rich society - but possibly contribute to a brain drain for their homeland - or stay home and work - but possibly contribute to a brain waste since conditions at home will not allow them to contribute commensurately with their capability. Increasingly, scholars on the subject of global South-to-West emigrants argue that it is not just a possibility of a brain drain occurring when citizens emigrate or brain waste occurring when they stay home, but rather a brain gain when they emigrate strategically and contribute to development in the homeland. |