A Case Study of the Impact of Globalization and Migration on the Brain Drain on Select Sub-Saharan Africa Countries

• In Event: Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: Beyond Knowing: Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora in the Contested World Landscape

Abstract

Education is a key venue supporting globalization in which “advanced skills and sophisticated knowledge are deemed essential to the construction of the ‘knowledge Society’” (Stromquist, 2002). The rise of the knowledge economy has reinforced the link between economic prosperity and higher education, resulting in a market economy. (Burbules and Torres 2000). With a declining and ageing population, western countries are increasingly seeking new avenues to attract new talents and skills from individuals in the developing world. Several new schemes are in the works to attract the skilled labor force that is needed in the west(OECD, 2008). this empirical case study presentation critically analyzes the various schemes to poach talents from developing areas.

Author

• Kingsley Banya, Misericordia University