Abstract
It has been widely acknowledged that a country’s development is highly related to its human capital resources, including highly skilled intellectuals. The spatial mobility of the highly skilled has accelerated in the context of globalization and has received increasing scholarly and public attention over the past several decades, with terms such as “brain drain,” “brain gain,” and the recently coined “brain circulation” (Breinbauer 2007; Johnson and Regets 1998; Baghwati and Partington 1976; Adams 1968) used to describe the movements of these highly skilled migrants. A large part of the research on this topic has focused on student migrants, especially students in higher education, who are also considered as potential permanent immigrants (Tremblay 2005).
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Yu, W. (2013). The Emerging Brain Circulation Between China and the United States. In: Alberts, H.C., Hazen, H.D. (eds) International Students and Scholars in the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024473_3
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