This essay examines the trajectories of skilled labor migrants within a global South-North migration matrix using an interdisciplinary framework. Focusing on Nigeria's huge brain drain phenomenon, the essay draws from the limited available data on the field, interpreting those data through theoretical perspectives from postcolonial studies, Marxism, cultural studies, and human geography. The study spotlights the example of the United States of America as a receptacle of skilled migrants and raises questions of social justice along the North-South divide. The research demonstrates that contrary to the dominant image promoted by some elements in the Western media of migrants as irritants or criminals who disturb well-cultivated, advanced World economies and social spaces, 1 those nations benefit highly from Africa's (and other migrant countries') labor diasporas, especially the highly skilled professionals.
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Tracking Skilled Diasporas
Globalization, Brain Drain, and the Postcolonial Condition in Nigeria
Nduka Otiono
Voices of internationalisation of higher education from sub-Saharan Africa, China and Indonesia
Sintayehu Kassaye Alemu, Mei Qu, and Zulfa Sakhiyya
internationalisation. Often this is done without adequate consideration of contextual differences, whether social, structural or economic. Moreover, the developed world sets out to attract academic scholars from developing countries and triggers brain drain, which is a
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 2–31 (30 total)
Book and Website Reviews
Silvia Rief, Antonino Palumbo, John Craig, Dorothy Sheridan, Barry Stierer, and Gabriela Edlinger
Myra H. Strober (2011): Interdisciplinary Conversations. Challenging Habits of Thought
Review by Silvia Rief
Hans Radder (ed.) (2010): The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University
Review by Antonino Palumbo
Gabriela Pleschová (ed.) (2010): IT in Action: Stimulating Quality Learning at Undergraduate Students
Review by John Craig
Les Back (2010-11): Academic Diary, http://www.academic-diary.co.uk/
Sally Fincher, Janet Finlay, Isobel Falconer, Helen Sharp and Josh Tenenberg (2008-11): The Share Project, http://www.sharingpractice.ac.uk/homepage.html
Review by Dorothy Sheridan and Barry Stierer
Sabine Hikel (ed.): Leaving Academia: Offering Resources for Academic Leavers and Accounting for the Phenomenon of Brain Drain in Academia, http://www.leavingacademia.com/
Review by Gabriela Edlinger
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2011
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 74–90 (17 total)
Science against Politics or the Politicization of Science? Research Agencies and the Debate over Research
Massimiano Bucchi and Federico Neresini
“We are not afraid of dismantling privilege and have scientists in the
streets, demonstrating and turning in their lab coats and test tubes. I
would like to ask these scientists what great discoveries they have
made. We will probably find out that they haven’t discovered very
much, while so many young researchers are excluded from pursuing
careers.” The words are those of Minister for Education, Universities,
and Research Letizia Moratti, commenting a few months after loud
protests by a large number of Italian scientists against the decision by
the government to restructure research agencies. The protest represented
an important stage of a phenomenon that was without precedent
(not only in Italy) until only a few years ago: the mobilization of
scientific researchers. It also was the most salient moment of an elaborate
public debate on the problems of scientific research in Italy that
carried on throughout 2003. The debate had a number of important
implications, touching on issues such as insufficient investment in
research; the so-called brain drain, that is, the inability to retain competent
researchers, who leave Italy to work in foreign institutes; the
growing dissatisfaction of younger generations with established scientific
research; and the need to remain internationally competitive in
areas of productivity and innovation.
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2004
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 133–149 (17 total)
Book Review
Sintayehu Kassaye Alemu
research methodology and priority. This is standardised as interconnectedness in this book. The cumulative effects are the alienation of the African higher education institutions from their society and brain drain, which is a grave challenge to all academic
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 101–111 (11 total)
Austerity in Africa
Audit cultures and the weakening of public sector health systems
James Pfeiffer
public sector with comparatively very high salaries and benefits ( Pfeiffer et al. 2014 ). A 2012 study of this “internal brain drain” in Mozambique revealed that nearly half of the physicians who had left the health system in recent years had been
The Challenges Faced by Contemporary Pan-African Intelligentsia in the Re-building of Africa
A Nkrumahist Perspective
Ezekiel S. Mkhwanazi
stop Africa’s ‘brain drain’. According to Mazrui and Kaba (2016: 84), ‘brain drain’ is a result of ‘folks [that] left Africa in the aftermath of the disruptions and dislocations of the colonial and post-colonial experience’. According to the two authors
The Costs of German Division
A Research Report
Werner Pfennig, Vu Tien Dung, and Alexander Pfennig
received in Moscow from the comecon Bank just one ruble, which was 2.5 times worse as compared to normal business transactions.” 12 There was an enormous brain drain. From its founding until the first half of 1990 about 3.8 million people left the gdr
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Other
- Pages:
- 55–68 (14 total)
Reports
Publications, Exhibitions and Conferences
Sara Farhan, Paul Fox, and Fakhri Haghani
and unpredictable migration routes with the ultimate goal of reaching England. However, Dewachi negates the ‘brain drain, brain gain’ trope accepted by modern medical anthropologists. To Dewachi, the mass exodus of Iraq’s medical community to England
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 128–136 (9 total)
Problematising Boundaries and ‘Hierarchies of Knowledge’ within European Anthropologies
Alessandro Testa
‘brain drain’ characterising academic and scientific migration patterns in the EU, but this is a big topic that cannot be tackled here. At any rate, the knowledge produced by the many representatives of the peripheries in the centres is, so to say
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 114–122 (9 total)