TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,Rubin TI - African brain circulation: beyond the drain-gain debate T2 - Brill eBook titles 2007 SN - 9789047420910 AV - HD8038.A35 A47 2007 U1 - 331.12/791096 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston PB - Brill KW - Brain drain KW - Africa KW - Labor supply KW - Occupational mobility KW - Professional employees N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary material; R. Patterson --; Introduction; Rubin Patterson --; 1. Pan-African brain circulation; Cynthia Lucas Hewitt --; 2. Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in Francophone Africa south of the Sahara; Fondo Sikod and Gérard Tchouassi --; 3. Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa; John Akokpari --; 4. On the brain drain of africans to America: Some Methodological observations; F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo , Baffour K. Takyi and Jesse R. Mann --; 5. Cyberorganizing United States constituencies for Africa; Jill M. Humphries --; 6. Biodiversity management: A current trace of the african diaspora; Paulo Moreno-Zapata --; 7. Building the new african eco-industrial economy: Circulating brains and recycling materials; Rubin Patterson --; 8. Brain drain and its impact on Ethiopia’s higher learning institutions:Medical establishments and the military academies between 1970s and2000; Solomon A. Getahun --; Index; R. Patterson; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - In this book, discussions on African brain circulation and transnational society provide new insights and point to fertile research and policy agendas. Today, a globally important dilemma concerns citizens who either depart from their homeland to enhance their life chances in a rich society - but possibly contribute to a brain drain for their homeland - or stay home and work - but possibly contribute to a brain waste since conditions at home will not allow them to contribute commensurately with their capability. Increasingly, scholars on the subject of global South-to-West emigrants argue that it is not just a possibility of a brain drain occurring when citizens emigrate or brain waste occurring when they stay home, but rather a brain gain when they emigrate strategically and contribute to development in the homeland UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004158856.i-189 ER -