CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Subedi, Dambaru Ballav |
|---|---|
| Title | Deconstruction of Student Migration from Nepal to the UK: Brain Drain, Brain Gain or Brain Circulation? |
| Summary | This study argues for a shift in the way student migration from Nepal has been studied. It shows that once we frame student migration from Nepal to UK as an international semi/skilled labor migration, rather than as an “elite migration”, we could understand the dynamics of this migration, in terms of its temporality and the directionality of the students’ mobility better. As a disguised labor migration, student migration operates on transnational networks and connections therefore its temporality has been diverted from temporary or linear migration to multi-directional transnational migration. The networks of migrants has been embedded on multiple transnational social spaces in which the migrants continuous interactions contribute to the economic and cultural reproduction of transnational households of which the student migrants become part of. Furthermore, I argue that transnationalization of the migration defies the conventional ‘notion’ of ‘brain drain’ from sending state perspective. It could even be ‘brain gain’ from the perspective of financial and social remittances which have an impact on the economic capacity and social mobility of the transnational household. On the bases of their jobs in the workforce, for which they are overqualified, the students’ position could be approached from the perspective of ‘brain waste’. However, as the student migration demonstrates the features of both ‘brain gain’ and ‘brain waste’, I suggest a more definitional as well as conceptual term, ‘brain circulation’ to designate and understand the phenomenon of Nepalese student migration to the UK. |
| Supervisor | Caglar, Ayse |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/subedi_dambaru.pdf |
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