Brain Gain

BRAIN GAIN! It sounds so familiar to BRAIN DRAIN nah! Oh, what a confusion it is? How to get to know the meaning of Brain Gain? Oka...

Diasporic Brain Gain

BRAIN GAIN! It sounds so familiar to BRAIN DRAIN nah! Oh, what a confusion it is? How to get to know the meaning of Brain Gain? Okay, no more dwelling here and there let us go through this content to understand the concept of Brain Gain. So here we go!

The movement of highly skilled professional workers to different countries represents brain gain for the countries that derive their cognition for the vantage of the host country. Thence, “brain gain” is an “actual gain of human capital from the migration of highly skilled individuals.” Since the concept of brain gain demands the country to be a beneficiary of the human Capital, countries are increasingly looking to position their immigration policies to attract these highly skilled individuals whose knowledge is desired by the country.

From the above definition, we can conclude that the term has two kinds of perspective in sense of its origin and destination migration. Firstly, those migrated individuals who left their place of origin for better opportunities to more developed countries than their own country and served their knowledge to that host country. Secondly, among these migrated individuals few returned to their country of origin and utilized their human capital obtained from both the countries for the betterment of their homeland.

Since 1950s the term “brain drain” came to the limelight and is often associated with loss of human capital, which was and is of great concern as emigration of individuals leads to mitigation of innovation and development in the country of origin. But by the turn of the millennium this negative aspect was changed a bit, as these migrants established themselves in the host country by reaching the top position in occupational hierarchy, gaining competences and capital. After gaining these valuables, they transfer their knowledge and capital to their home countries using their reputed positions from their host country. Thence, we see through this that slowly brain drain has turned into brain gain for the country of origin. 

This phenomenon can be well explained through an example, like that of India. India was suffering with prominent brain drain during 1970s and 1980s, as thousands of highly skilled professionals were living India for better opportunities towards developed countries. They based themselves strongly and successfully in their host countries gaining significant knowledge. But since liberalization in India during 1991 many of these Indians, once left India, returned India and invested their cognition and capital in India. These investments have contributed in the development of India’s economy. We will discuss about Indian brain gain in our next section on brain gain in particular.


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Reference:
  • Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Laxmi Narayan Kadekar (edited), Global Indian Diaspora: History, Culture and Identity.
  • Transforming Brain Gain from a Concept to a Real Gain - http://www.crpm.org.mk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/TRANSFORMING-BRAIN-GAIN-FROM.pdf (06.01.2017/12:40 am)
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Related Questions:
Understanding the concept of Brain Gain.
A brief definition for Brain Gain.
Consequences of Brain Gain.


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