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African brain circulation : beyond the drain-gain debate / / edited by Rubin Patterson



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Titolo: African brain circulation : beyond the drain-gain debate / / edited by Rubin Patterson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boston, : Brill, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
Disciplina: 331.12/791096
Soggetto topico: Brain drain - Africa
Professional employees
Labor supply - Africa
Occupational mobility
Altri autori: PattersonRubin  
Note generali: "Originally published as Volume 5 no. 3 (2006) of Brill's journal 'Perspectives on global development and technology.'"--T.p. verso.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Pan-African brain circulation / Cynthia Lucas Hewitt -- Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in francophone Africa south of the Sahara / Fondo Sikod and Gerard Tchouassi -- Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa / John Akokpari -- On the brain drain of Africans to America : some methodological observations / F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, B. K. Takyi and Jesse R. Mann -- Cyberorganizing United States constituencies for Africa / Jill M. Humphries -- Biodiversity management : a current trace of the African diaspora / Paulo Moreno-Zapata -- Building the new African eco-industrial economy : circulating brains and recycling materials / Rubin Patterson -- Brain drain and its impact on Ethiopia's higher learning institutions : medical establishments and the military / Solomon A. Getahun.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: African brain circulation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-92154-8
9786611921545
90-474-2091-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806979003321
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Serie: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; ; v. 105.