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Zazil-Ha Baruch – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study acknowledges the potential contribution of Mexican highly-skilled immigrants settled in the United States. Then, to better understand how the brain waste phenomenon (unemployment/underemployment) functions among these immigrants in the United States, by using the lens of neo-racism, Latina/o Critical Race Theory (LatCrit), and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Underemployment, Immigrants, Mexicans
Aleksandar Chonevski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the phenomenon known as Brain Drain and how it affects the identities of educated Balkan immigrants who have emigrated to the United States to study in a university and willingly accept their transformational process as a hybrid identity. Hybrid identities (Smith & Leavy, 2008) of skilled immigrants contribute to the…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Immigrants, Self Concept, Study Abroad
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Davies, Scott; Aurini, Janice – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This paper describes three eras of state building and higher education in Canada. Higher education in 'Old Canada' before WWII was mostly a small collection of colleges that bore imprints of American and British institutions and provided personnel needed to develop a vast and sparsely populated territory. The 'Hey Day of Canadian Nationalism' from…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Cattaneo, Mattia; Malighetti, Paolo; Paleari, Stefano – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
This study analyzes the scientific profiles of doctorate holders who migrate in search of better job opportunities as a response to the increased temporariness and uncertainty of employment in their native country. Analyzing the career trajectories of the population of research-active Italian doctorate holders in economics, finance, and business…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, College Graduates, Doctoral Degrees
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Brooks, Rachel; Waters, Johanna – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This paper explores the contemporary relationship between international student migration and diaspora formation. It argues that international students have been largely absent from recent discussions of 'knowledge diasporas', where migrants' 'home' states attempt to harness and co-opt the skills and knowledge of their émigrés. This is surprising,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Immigrants, Correlation
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Cerna, Lucie; Chou, Meng-Hsuan – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Taking the migration-higher education nexus as an analytical entry point, we address the question: How can we account for different internationalisation outcomes? We focus on three actors involved in the global race to internationalise higher education activities: higher education institutions (HEIs), states, and migrants. We argue that the…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Strategic Planning
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Yin, Ming; Yeakey, Carol Camp – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
In 2016, approximately 5 million students, about 2% of global tertiary enrolments, studied abroad. As globalisation of education advances, tertiary student mobility is an important channel through which highly skilled immigrants arrive and work in different nation states. Informed by the multidisciplinary internationalisation frameworks, this…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Political Power, Global Approach
Suppiah, Nithiyananthan – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of the present quantitative correlational study was to examine if a relationship existed between the RBD phenomenon and cultural, economic, or political factors of the native countries of South Asian IT professionals living in the United States. The study on reverse brain drain was conducted to explore a growing phenomenon in the…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Foreign Workers
Turner-Parker, Bobbie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify whether the corporate brain drain that results as baby boomers retire and highly educated skilled immigrants return to their nations of origin, or to other developing nations, impact corporations in developed countries; and identify effective solutions firms are using to address the void of…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Brain Drain, Corporations, Baby Boomers
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Tigau, Camelia; Guerra, Bernardo Bolaños – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
This paper examines the relationship between skills prices (wage premiums) and inequality in migrant sending countries (mainly from Latin America) and explores the implications for education policies. Most of the evidence is based on the case of Mexico, a Latin American country that is also an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development…
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Educational Policy
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Mok, Ka Ho; Han, Xiao – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
In the past few decades, the internationalisation of higher education has become an increasingly popular trend across different parts of the globe. The fierce global competition and the aggravating unemployment rate, coupled with low teaching and research quality revealed by universities in mainland China, have inevitably compelled a growing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Study Abroad, Higher Education
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Sharabati-Shahin, Mervat H. N.; Thiruchelvam, K. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
University-industry (U-I) linkage is not a new concept. Although there are models for such linkage that have been tested or used, they may remain unsuitable in certain countries and communities. With the unique situation of the Palestinians, the existing models may fall short of meeting the specific needs and targets of establishing such a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Industry, Brain Drain
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Lehr, Sabine – Comparative Education, 2008
One of the ongoing debates in Canadian higher education is the dilemma of the brain drain and the seemingly conflicting goals between the strategies and intentions of various government departments. While Citizenship and Immigration Canada aims to recruit the brightest students from across the globe to study in Canada and to enable their long-term…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Criticism, Foreign Countries
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Baldacchino, Godfrey – Comparative Education, 2008
Entrepreneurship on smaller (often island) jurisdictions tends to suffer from the same import-orientation or "cargo cult" that affects many other issues: entrepreneurs are rarely locally bred but are most often "imported", recruited after long stints in other, larger countries, or else must be suffered to spend regular time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Entrepreneurship, Business Skills
Brome, Heather – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2007
Recent news articles and studies have generated concern among New England policy makers and others that the region's supply of young, highly educated professionals is disappearing. The fear is that comparatively high housing and other costs may be driving away many within this highly mobile group. This paper explores trends in the stocks and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Skilled Occupations, Labor Supply, Brain Drain
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