American Brain Drain
If you're not yet sufficiently worried about American decline, this article should do the trick:
In growing numbers, experts say, highly educated children of immigrants to the United States are uprooting themselves and moving to their ancestral countries. They are embracing homelands that their parents once spurned but that are now economic powers. ...
Enterprising Americans have always sought opportunities abroad. But this new wave underscores the evolving nature of global migration, and the challenges to American economic supremacy and competitiveness.
In interviews, many of these Americans said they did not know how long they would live abroad; some said it was possible that they would remain expatriates for many years, if not for the rest of their lives.
Their decisions to leave have, in many cases, troubled their immigrant parents. Yet most said they had been pushed by the dismal hiring climate in the United States or pulled by prospects abroad.
“Markets are opening; people are coming up with ideas every day; there’s so much opportunity to mold and create,” said Mr. Kapadia, now a researcher at Gateway House, a new foreign-policy research organization in Mumbai. “People here are running much faster than the people in Washington.”
For generations, the world’s less-developed countries have suffered so-called brain drain — the flight of many of their best and brightest to the West. That has not stopped, but now a reverse flow has begun, particularly to countries like China and India and, to a lesser extent, Brazil and Russia.
On the bright side, I'm intrigued to learn about Gateway House. In fact, I think I'll send them a copy of my CV.
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Dec '11
Re: American Brain Drain
I sympathize with this entirely.
Apr '12
Re: American Brain Drain
I had considered moving to Singapore or Switzerland; I still consider them a backup. Though I'm not a second generation immigrant.
Although, aren't you in Turkey Claire? Are you part of the brain drain?
Edited on April 18, 2012 at 6:11amRe: American Brain Drain
Liberty Dude: I had considered moving to Singapore or Switzerland; I still consider them a backup. Though I'm not a second generation immigrant.
Although, aren't you in Turkey Claire? Are you part of the brain drain? · 9 hours ago
Edited 9 hours ago
Brains don't really drain to Turkey--not if they want good company, anyway. But India ... now that's intriguing.