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This book is a sequel to the India Migration Report 2009 on the theme of ‘Past, Present and the Future Outlook’. India is a major source country of immigrants in the US and Canada. Quite a significant proportion of them are highly-skilled people who have attained important positions in the mainstream economic and socio-political set up. Contrary to their position in North America, Indian migrants in South America and the Caribbean are not as ...
'Brain drain', or the international migration of educated and skilled professionals (or 'knowledge workers') from relatively less developed to more developed countries has predominantly been viewed as a negative phenomenon. This unusual book takes a positive approach and explores how a developing nation losing its valuable human resources through brain drain can make the best of the situation. To this end, the author analyses the migration of ...