This research examines the international migration of Igbo women from Southeastern Nigeria to the United States of America (U.S.A) from 1995 to 2012 within the context of brain drain, brain gain or brain circulation. It has five specific objectives: (1) to determine the social, …
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More than 1.2 million students have left China to study abroad during the past three decades of economic reform in China. In 2007 alone, China sent around 144,000 students abroad, 167 times of the number of students in 1978. This large scale of student migration has often raised…
Background. A significant proportion of the physician and nurse workforce in the US is constituted of professionals from other countries. These health professionals play an important role in the US health care system, but emigration can place significant strains on their home co…
The current heuristic phenomenological study had 20 participants, Nigerian professionals residing in South Florida. Six themes emerged from the data analysis of the interviews: (a) the fear of governmental political, leadership instability, and governance policy prevents Nigeria…
The primary objective of this dissertation was to find out why non-returning Nigerian students choose not to return to Nigeria after studying in a United States higher institution of learning and to establish a connection between that phenomenon and the literature reviewed. Prim…
The possible presence of an external brain drain and/or internal brain drain related to Saudi health care professionals was investigated. Saudi students enrolled in health care professions programs in North America (N=1523) were surveyed using a self-administered online question…
The Iranian economy has undergone a major transformation since the early 1960s, when the government began to promote rapid industrialization. Despite the tremendous achievement and the government's commitment to industrialization, Iranian industrialization was confronted with ma…
Of all the issues and trends facing higher education in Nigeria, the academic turnover commonly referred as "Brain drain" is more pronounced. It continues to deplete the professoriate with its distinctive wealth of academic expertise. Exacerbating the brain drain issues is the f…
Background. The international migration of physicians is a global public health problem and a priority issue for international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Lebanon is a source country with the highest emigratio…
A review of recent research data reflects a lack of general interest in world literature on the emigration of highly educated individuals from less developed countries to developed countries. The bulk of the information on this immigration pattern, which has become known as brai…
This qualitative, phenomenological study explored the experiences, perceptions, and consequences of 20 professional Nigerian immigrants’ attempt to secure educationally appropriate employment in the United States. Responses to interview questions offered insights into participan…
This study is about the human capital challenges faced by Nigeria, an oil-rich developing world economy that is dealing with a lack of capacity as a consequence of the brain drain of its professionals to the West. Using the research strand of narrative inquiry, the researcher tr…
This dissertation considers two distinct issues in macroeconomics. The first is the effect of tax changes on the level of productivity of an economy and the second concerns the implications of cross-national migration for long-run growth and welfare. In the first chapter, I anal…
This qualitative study explores the underlying reasons of the decisions of U.S. educated Turkish professors to stay in the United States or return to Turkey. To collect data, interviews were conducted with a total of 20 U.S. educated faculty members, as 10 returned to Turkey whi…
In Canada, the non-recognition of foreign credentials remains a considerable policy issue as well as a challenge for skilled immigrants. Many studies have shed light on the difficulties that foreign professionals face when seeking a placement in the Canadian job market. This the…
In the past 3 decades, citizens of Ghana sought learning from western nations and returned to Ghana to contribute their skills and talents to nation building. However, a recent World Bank study affirmed that 47% of Ghana's college educated citizens now live abroad. The research …