Title:	African Brain Circulation
Other Titles:	Beyond the Drain-Gain Debate
Authors:	Rubin, Patterson
Keywords:	Beyond the Drain-Gain Debate
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Brill
Description:	The decades-long heated brain-drain versus brain-gain debate that has been intense among scholars, government officials, and emigrants from the global South, while still highly charged even today, will likely become increasingly irrelevant. The source of the growing irrelevance is twofold. First, Internet-Age emigration is fundamentally different from all of the preceding eras of emigration, due in large part to transnational societies that emigration engenders today. Transnational societies are those in which imagined communities straddle borders, and citizens not only possess intimate emotional attachments to multiple societies, but they engage more than one society materially in a dynamic fashion. Internet-Age emigration circumvents one being simply eviscerated from one’s homeland and replanted in a new host society. Emigrants today can read daily newspapers, watch and listen to local television and radio programming emanating from the homeland while in the host society, and communicate throughout the day just as if they were ensconced locally back home
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9833
ISBN:	978 90 04 15885 6
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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