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
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| 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
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-281-92154-8 |
| 9786611921545 | |
| 90-474-2091-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806979003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; ; v. 105.