Modernization for Emigration

Determinants & Consequences of the Brain Drain

Bibliographic Data

ID9685080
AuthorsA Portes (0000-0002-0864-878X, MIT University, corresponding author), Adrienne Celaya (ADRIENNE CELAYA is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami. Her research interests include race and the criminal justice system, intimate partner violence, family violence lethality, and Latino/immigrant violence.)
Year2013
Volume142
Issue3
Pages170-184
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_00226
PMID28931955
OpenAlexW2039526142
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited13

This essay reviews existing theories of professional emigration as background to examine the present situation. Classical theories of the brain drain neglected the possibility that immigrant professionals would return to their home countries and make significant investments and economic contributions there. They do, in fact, with beneficial consequences for the development of these countries. The advent of the transnational perspective in the field of immigration has helped clarify these dynamics, while identifying the conditions under which professional cyclical returns and knowledge transfers can take place. Implications for the future attraction of foreign professionals by the United States and other advanced countries are discussed

Brain drain · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Emigration · Field (mathematics · Immigration · Modernization theory · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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