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Hurst, Ellen – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
African skilled migrants and their circular and return migration strategies have received relatively little attention in the literature, with the previous focus of much African migration literature being on the net loss of skills to countries with developed economies in the global north. This article considers 13 interviews with African skilled…
Descriptors: Migration, Foreign Countries, African Languages, Migrants
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Odhiambo, George – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
The flight of human capital is a phenomenon that has been of concern to academics and development practitioners for decades but unfortunately, there is no systematic record of the number of skilled professionals that many African countries have continued to lose to the developed world. Termed the "brain drain", it represents the loss of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain
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Odhiambo, George O. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
The flight of human capital is a phenomenon that has been of concern to academics and development practitioners for decades. Unfortunately, there is no systematic record of the number of skilled professionals that many African countries have continued to lose to the developed world. Termed the "brain drain", it represents the loss of…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Human Capital