scholarly journals Academic mobility of Russian scientists: from “brain drain” to “brain circulation” model

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-717
Author(s):  
Tamara К Rostovskaya ◽  
Elena Е Pismennaya ◽  
Vera I Skorobogatova
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
Intellectual Potential

Academic mobility is one of the key directions of development of intellectual potential and realization of professional opportunities of both youth and highly qualified specialists, scientists and teachers. This category of the population is the intellectual potential of the country, able to carry out an “innovative breakthrough” of the economy, able to act as a mechanism for strengthening the integration processes in the Eurasian space (within the EAEU and SCO), as well as to become a certain reserve for the demographic development of some Russian regions. The term “circulation of minds” is defined, which has become increasingly used in relation to the emigration of specialists from Russia. The circulation of minds implies that the migration of highly skilled professionals and scientists follows the movement of capital and projects, is temporary and returnable. The concept of “academic mobility” is specified and its key characteristics are given. The evaluation of the implementation of international programs to promote academic mobility, including such programs as Erasmus Mundus, DAAD, Tempus, Fulbright Program, etc., which allow participating countries to obtain positive socio-economic, scientific and demographic effects. Unfortunately, this potential of educational migration is not fully realized in Russia. In addition, the Russian science lacks the necessary amount of scientific research on the problems of academic mobility, which is largely due to the negative “color” of educational migration in the country, due to the significant attention to the problem of “brain drain”. Nevertheless, in our opinion, Russia has enormous unrealized potential and unique opportunities for the development of academic mobility. In conclusion, there are proposals for the formation of Russia’s policy in relation to the development of academic mobility, maintaining a positive trend to attract highly skilled migrants from near and far abroad, but also for the further development of forms of academic mobility.

Aspecte ale fenomenului „brain drainˮ in Republica Moldova

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stela Morozan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Circular Migration ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Intellectual Potential ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Drain Management

The phenomenon of 'brain drain'' is one of the current problems of the Moldovan society indicating insufficient support to highly qualified young professionals from various fields. Academic mobility is an opportunity to go to study at a foreign university for a limited period but scholars often do not return home. So the purpose of this article is to promote circular migration and academic mobility of young. Nowadays, the economic and political challenges that developing countries are going through, lead to serious changes into the structure and movement of the qualified human capital. Republic of Moldova faces severe migration problems. Unfavorable economic conditions, the existence of better opportunities abroad are creating those push-factors that day by day worsen the situation. This article aims to present general trends of intellectual potential exodus phenomenon in Republic of Moldova with recommendations of possible strategies that could be applied in order to reduce the bad effects and to increase positive effects, by analyzing the experience of other countries which have obtained better results in brain drain management.

scholarly journals EDUCATIONAL MIGRATION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
pp. 140-148
Author(s):  
A. Belozorova ◽  
N. Korovina
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
Intellectual Potential

The article examines the relationship between educational and intellectual migration on the example of Ukraine. It is noted that usually educational migration is considered as a separate form of migration, it is associated with the stage of formation and accumulation of intellectual potential. While intellectual migration, traditionally understood as the relocation of workers of intellectual labor and creative intelligentsia, is associated with the stage of use of intellectual capital. Therefore, these two streams have so far been considered separately. In order to better understand the current role of educational migration, the processes of departure of Ukrainian students abroad and receiving educational services by foreign students in the domestic economy are considered. The paper also identifies the main directions and scales of educational migration flows in the country. The role of universities as institutions for attracting the intellectual potential of foreign countries to recipient countries in order to increase their competitiveness in the further development of the knowledge economy in the global dimension is substantiated. Based on the analysis of assessments of the causes and factors of the outflow of young people from Ukraine to study, it is substantiated that the quality of education is not the main value that students are looking for. It is found that in the current conditions of economic, political and military crisis, their main motive is emigration to a permanent place of residence in more politically stable and economically successful countries. The existence of a serious problem of lack of proper methods of data collection and statistical analysis in the field of educational and intellectual migration is emphasized, the data of official statistics are incomplete and do not reflect the whole picture of educational and intellectual migration. The benefits of educational immigration are identified and described, as well as the losses of the Ukrainian economy from the outflow of intellectual capital in the form of educational migration and the departure of highly qualified personnel. It is concluded that to change the situation it requires an effective migration policy, which should include the interests of the country's economy based on the acquired knowledge of migrants obtained abroad. The ultimate goal should be the introduction of an effective mechanism for the free movement of migrants and the transformation of irreversible emigration into temporary, because stopping migration in the context of globalization is an impossible phenomenon.

scholarly journals Ukrainian students in the higher educational establishments of the European Union: problems and prospects of international academic exchanges

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Evgen Khan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
Opinion Polls

The article presents fundamental arguments and reasons that motivate Ukrainian students educate abroad, prima facie – in the European academic institutions. The statistics and opinion polls data upon the number of Ukrainian students studying abroad (i.a. in the European academia) have been given. The article also delivers data on the number of students presented in the separate countries of Europe (Germany, Poland, France, Czech Republic and Italy). The initial programs proposed and studying conditions available in these countries have been outlined. The popularity of a series of European educational institutions among the youth of Ukraine has been explained. It face the academic migration which might bring about the substantial demographic changes and brain drain (through dramatic loss of the highly qualified manpower), which basically is currently coming around. Therefore it is quite hard to claim whether the bigger or smaller part of the Ukrainian students studying in Europe or going to college therein stays abroad upon completing their education or return home. To this end, the issues of educational migration and brain drain rise dramatically nowadays.

scholarly journals Intellectual Migration of Ukrainians at the turn of the XX-XXI Centuries: the Magnitude and Main Characteristics of the Phenomenon

2019 ◽  
pp. 174-181
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Demydenko
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Scientific Potential ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
Challenging Situation ◽  
Intellectual Potential ◽  
Scientific Environment ◽  
Scientific Migration ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The article analyzes the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the phenomenon of external intellectual migration of Ukrainian citizens during the period of its independence. On the basis of statistical data, the magnitude of the departure of Ukrainians abroad in the framework of the processes of scientific and educational migration is studied. The development of the national scientific sector, which is marked by a gradual decrease in the number of trained specialists, including due to migration phenomenon, is characterized. The dynamics of Ukraine's loss of scientific personnel - doctors and candidates of sciences, whoactively moved to other states since 1991 - are researched. Periodization of the processes of scientific migration from our state is offered on the basis of characteristic features and reasons. According to it, the emigration of Ukrainian scholars took place in four stages, the last of which characterizes migration movements in the XXI century. The branches of Ukrainian scientific sector, which suffered the most from the migration movement while losing their trained personnel in favor of other states, have been determined. The phenomenon of student migration, which is characterized primarily by the departure of the younger generation of Ukrainians for studying in other states, is analyzed. It is emphasized that this process, despite its scheduled temporary nature, very often becomes irreversible and leads to the loss of perspective human resources by our state. Separately, the processes of emigration of highly skilled specialists are considered on the example of representatives of the IT sphere. In order to create a forecast for the future of the phenomenon under investigation, the results of surveys of student youth are presented, which demonstrate the positive attitude of young Ukrainians towards the prospect of external migration. It is stated that large scale losses of intellectual potential and the impossibility of its reproduction because of the migratory preferences of young people form a challenging situation, which becomes an urgent threat to the stable development of the Ukrainian state. Keywords: Intellectual migration, scientific migration, educational migration, brain circulation, scientific potential, student youth, scientific environment, highly skilled specialists, Ukraine

The choice facing Russian science: Partnership or brain drain

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Dmitrij Piskunov ◽  
Valerij Len'šin
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Russian Science

scholarly journals Israel and Migration of High Skilled Workforce: Brain Drain and the Possibility of Replenishing the Market with High-Quality Human Capital

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-215
Author(s):  
D. A. Maryasis
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Highly Skilled

International labor migration is one of the most important elements of the modern global economy. Amid growing knowledge economy, migration of highly skilled specialists plays an increasingly important role. For Israel, as an immigrant society, migration issues have been of paramount importance since the early days of the independent state. However, in the first decades the discussion focused mainly around the influence of immigrants on the economic development of the country and identification of the most effective ways to adapt immigrants. At present, the Israeli economic model is built in such a way that the institutions of the knowledge economy are at its core, that requires a significant amount of labor with an appropriate level of skills. At the same time, today Israel witnesses emigration of such specialists, mainly to the United States. This paper is devoted to the analysis of the current situation. The article substantiates the relevance of the chosen topic not only for Israel, but also for other economically developed countries and gives a brief bibliographic review in the field. Next, the author analyzes the tendencies of high skilled work force immigration to Israel at the present stage through the analysis of the supply and demand in the country's labor market in the high-tech sector and assessment of the government programs created to attract foreign non-Jewish specialists to the country which appear to be not effective. The article also deals with the problems of emigration of high skilled workers from Israel. An overview of the magnitude of the phenomenon is given based on international comparisons; main reasons of the trend are identified and analyzed; government programs for the return of compatriots are assessed. It is argued that Israel should pursue a more effective policy to attract highly skilled non-Jewish immigrants into the country, which will fully realize the existing positive externalities and dampen the problem of brain drain.

scholarly journals What can the African diaspora contribute to innovation and knowledge creation? The case study of Zimbabwean innovators

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s1 ◽  
pp. 101-125
Author(s):  
Juliet Thondhlana ◽  
Roda Madziva ◽  
Evelyn Chiyevo Garwe
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Innovation And Development

The importance of diaspora and transnational knowledge production, innovation, and development is of growing interest, particularly in the developing world. The phenomenal increase in high human capital migration from poor to rich countries has historically led to what is commonly known as brain drain, which has negatively impacted the capacity of such countries to innovate. Yet more recently the emergence of the phenomenon of transnationalism has demonstrated the potential to transform brain drain into brain circulation, for the mutual benefit of both sending and receiving contexts. This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore the role of diasporan professionals, scholars, and entrepreneurs in contributing to knowledge production, innovation, and development initiatives in their countries of origin. Zimbabwe is an example of many African countries that have experienced substantial attrition of highly qualified knowledge workers for various reasons. A qualitative approach, involving interviews and documentary evidence, enabled the researchers to engage with the Zimbabwean diaspora to capture their narratives regarding the challenges and opportunities, which were then used to develop successful transnational knowledge production initiatives.

Brain Drain and Africa’s Development: A Reflection

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Soumana Sako
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Recipient Country ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Source Country ◽  
Professional Advancement ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Highly Skilled

The flight of human capital is a phenomenon that has been of concern to academics and development practitioners for decades. Termed the brain drain, it represents the loss of highly skilled professionals from a source country to a recipient country. Migrants leave one country for another as a result of strong attractions associated with differentials in living conditions, opportunities for professional advancement, and the existence of an environment that is conducive to peace and security. The term brain drain gained currency in the 1950s. Then it referred to emigration of scientists to the United States from countries such as Britain, Canada, and the former Soviet Union. Today, the concept is used to denote the flight of highly skilled professionals and academics from developing to developed countries.

scholarly journals The EU Policy to Attract Highly Skilled Workers: The Status of Implementation of the Blue Card Directive

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Marco Mazzeschi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Current State ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
The Status ◽  
Skills Shortages ◽  
Eu Commission ◽  
The Eu

<p>A worldwide shortage of about 38-40 million highly skilled workers is forecast by 2020. Many countries are implementing policies to attract workers with special skills and knowledge. What is the European Union doing to face this challenge? In 2009 the EU adopted the so called Blue Card Directive (n. 2009/50) to attract highly qualified workers from abroad, address labour and skills shortages and strengthen the EU’s competitiveness and economic growth. The Directive was implemented by most EU countries during 2012 but has proven to be insufficiently attractive and underused, with only a limited number of Blue Cards issued. For these reasons, the EU Commission has announced some proposed changes to the Blue Card Directive. The specific objectives are, amongst other things, to increase the numbers of third-country highly skilled workers immigrating to the EU and simplify and harmonise admission procedures for third-country highly skilled workers.</p><p>The article also outlines a summary of the current state of implementation of the Directive in the following countries: Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium and The Netherlands.</p>

scholarly journals Educational Migration in the Semantic Space of Political Science: a Review of Theoretical Approaches

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-386
Author(s):  
Vasilya V. Taisheva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Educational Migration

Among modern studies on the phenomenon of migration, of particular interest is the work studying and analyzing educational migration as one of the most popular and promising areas of migration. Despite numerous work devoted to the issue of educational migration, latter still remains the least studied migration category. In order to identify current trends and patterns of international educational migration and to trace development of theoretical constructions explaining migration process, author has conducted an analysis of more than 60 scientific publications (both theoretical and empirical studies) of foreign authors on the issues of consideration. Analysis of publications was carried out in context of a critical review of scientific theories and research concepts on educational migration. As the main theories, neoclassical theories of migration of macro (the concept of Push-Pull factors) and micro (the theory of human capital) level, transnational theory and theory of global knowledge were considered. As a result, author notes that educational migration studies are mostly aimed at studying economic aspects of migration, determinants and causes of migration, issue of highly qualified migration, processes of integration and adaptation of foreign students, new directions of student migration, transnational spaces and social migrant networks etc. Publications on the values and axiological aspects of educational migration are much less common. To sum up, based on results of the study, article reveals that vectors of educational migration studies are shaped by transformation occurring in the world and in the global educational environment that directly affects the nature of student migration flows.

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