Intellectual migration: considering China

Li, Wei; Lo, Lucia; Lu, Yixi; Tan, Yining; Zheng, Lu

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2020.1739393

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“…Results show that a set of studies focused on destination countries [143][144][145] raises the necessity of a change of approach since these types of studies were initially raised based on the loss of advanced intellectual capital in the countries of origin. However, studies are currently rethinking their orientation to brain gain [12,[145][146][147][148][149], and to ideas of migratory dynamics presented in the brain circulation [12,47,146,147,[150][151][152][153][154]. Results emphasize that policies and efforts need to change if policymakers look at researchers' brain drain concept use.…”

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confidence: 99%

Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

Vega-Muñoz

Gónzalez-Gómez-del-Miño

Espinosa-Cristia

2021

Sustainability

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Scholars had been documenting the Brain Drain phenomenon producing scientific literature for more than 50 years. After three decades of slow but steady progress, literature about this concept has accelerated its progress and growth path, in line with the 9th sustainable development goal “Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation” Thus, the present article aims to define the current theoretical trends about the analysis of advanced intellectual human capital’s international migratory phenomenon. This study uses a scientometric methodology on a corpus of 1212 articles indexed to the JCR-WoS from Social Sciences. The period covered in the study is from 1965 to 2020. The paper looks to understand how researchers studied the brain drain concept over the last 55 years in various disciplines. The report covers 99 categories from the Journal Citation Report (JCR) index. Results show that there is a scientific research critical mass that is studying the brain drain phenomenon. The analysis shows thematic trends at the sources, discourses, and consolidates classic works and some novel authors. Those new scholars and theoretical trends lead to refocused analysis beyond countries with a high development level. Such movement constitutes a new challenge in this line of research toward studying the effects of the brain drain in the peripheral areas of knowledge production.

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confidence: 99%

Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

Vega-Muñoz

Gónzalez-Gómez-del-Miño

Espinosa-Cristia

2021

Sustainability

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“…The second enabler was international mobility driven by gaining intellectual capital, otherwise known as intellectual migration, as proposed by Li et al (2020). In this study, the decision to undertake international student mobility is influenced more by career aspirations, contextual factors such as (im)migration regulations and the socioeconomic-political conditions of their origin and destination regions.…”

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“…In terms of international mobility enablers, we found two main enablers, the first enabler was the desire to gain an advantage over fellow students and that international mobility could help students achieve this aim to gain employment (Findlay, King, Findlay, Ahrens, & Dunne, 2012). Secondly, another international mobility enabler is described as intellectual capital, which presupposes an existing network in the host country, high academic qualifications, and language proficiencies, which focuses a certain student demographic (Li, Lo, Lu, Tan, & Lu, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review and Conceptual Model of International Student Mobility Decision-Making

Albien

Mashatola

2021

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This research synthesizes the most recent studies on the international student mobility of higher education students. Our aim is to begin to conceptualise and predict the barriers, enablers and determinants from an organisational psychology perspective that may contribute to the limited decision making of higher education students to become internationally mobile. Previous studies were used to examine the uncertainties and difficulties documented in other international student groups to try to understand the determinants of internationally mobile versus non internationally mobile students, and make transferrable conceptual links to South African higher education students. These conceptual links are framed in an organizational psychology perspective. This article uses a systematic review methodology and began by framing review objectives, identifying relevant publications, establishing criteria for selecting the studies that were analyzed, summarizing the evidence found, and drawing relevant conclusions. A conceptual model is proposed as an extension of the current international student mobility literature and merged with organizational psychology theory to develop a new future research line. Research limitations are addressed, and practical implications are discussed to assess whether interventions can be created to support international mobility decision-making amongst international students in general, and South African higher education students in particular, to create a globally competitive workforce and sustainable employment paths.

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“…Graduates, doctoral students, and post-doctoral researchers were included in discussions about the fairness of opportunities in international academic mobility (Gerhards et al, 2018 ), the relationship between mobility and team diversity (Barjak & Robinson, 2008 ), and scientists’ international mobility (Netz & Jaksztat, 2017 ). In the ‘intellectual migration’ conceptual framework proposed by geographers, student mobility and highly skilled migration were positioned as a continuous spectrum (Li et al, 2021 ).…”

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Reconceptualising international academic mobility in the global knowledge system: towards a new research agenda

Song

Wang

2022

High Educ

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The cross-border movement of people in higher education has been attracting scholarly attention for decades, but the definition of ‘international academic mobility’ bears ambiguities. This article reviews the literature on international academic mobility published in the journal Higher Education and beyond. By bridging the literature on international academic mobility from higher education studies and other disciplines, this article proposes to redefine international academic mobility, which highlights the integration of both international student mobility and international faculty mobility. Furthermore, this article outlines a new conceptual framework and research agenda, on the role of international academic mobility in the national, regional, and global knowledge systems. The framework highlights the relationship between international academic mobility and worldwide knowledge acquisition, production, transfer, circulation, networks, and the geopolitics of science. The article also proposes further methodologies for future research on international academic mobility.

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Intellectual migration: considering China

Cited by 41 publications

References 67 publications

Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

A Systematic Review and Conceptual Model of International Student Mobility Decision-Making

Reconceptualising international academic mobility in the global knowledge system: towards a new research agenda

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