Return Migration in the Asia PacificRobyn R. Iredale, Fei Guo, Santi Rozario 'There are few studies on return migration in general and even fewer on migrants who have returned to their home countries in the Asian and Pacific region. Much is heard about "brain drain but much less about brain drain reversal. This book is to |
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2 The View from Australia | 26 |
Return Migration and Social Transformation | 47 |
Government Policies and Emerging Trends of Reversal of the Brain Drain | 88 |
Significance Characteristics and Policies on Return Skilled Migration | 112 |
Emergence of Return Skilled Migration | 136 |
Developing a Comparative Framework | 169 |
8 Conclusion | 181 |
References | 191 |
Programmes to Facilitate the Recruitment of Highly Educated Professionals by Different Government Agencies | 200 |
Index | 207 |
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Page 15 - ... producers to locate and maintain mutually beneficial collaborations across long distances and that facilitate access to Asian sources of capital, manufacturing capabilities, skills, and markets. These ties have measurable economic benefits. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have documented a significant correlation between the presence of first-generation immigrants from a given country and exports from California. (For every 1 percent increase in the number of first-generation...
Page 15 - ... plants overseas. Today, by contrast, new transportation and communications technologies allow even the smallest firms to build partnerships with foreign producers to tap overseas expertise, cost-savings, and markets. Start-ups in Silicon Valley today are often global actors from the day they begin operations. Many raise capital from Asian sources, others subcontract manufacturing to Taiwan or rely on software development in India, and virtually all sell their products in Asian markets. The scarce...
Page 135 - ... banquet. This transnational community has accelerated the upgrading of Taiwan's technological infrastructure by transferring technical know-how and organizational models, as well as by forging closer ties with Silicon Valley. Observers note, for example, that management practices in Hsinchu companies are more like those of Silicon Valley than of the traditional family-firm model that dominates older industries in Taiwan. As a result, Taiwan is now the world's largest producer of notebook computers...
Page 15 - The scarce resource in this new environment is the ability to locate foreign partners quickly and to manage complex business relationships across cultural and linguistic boundaries. This is particularly a challenge in high-technology industries, in which products, markets, and technologies are continually being redefined and product cycles are routinely shorter than nine months.
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Page 15 - Silicon Valley's new immigrant entrepreneurs, by contrast, are increasingly building professional and social networks that span national boundaries and facilitate flows of capital, skill, and technology. In so doing, they are creating transnational communities that provide the shared information, contacts, and trust that allow local producers to participate in an increasingly global economy (Fortes 1995).
Page 135 - The growing integration of the technological communities of Silicon Valley and Hsinchu offers substantial benefits to both economies. Silicon Valley remains the center of new product definition and design and development of leading-edge technologies, whereas Taiwan offers world-class manufacturing, flexible development and integration, and access to key customers and markets in China and Southeast Asia.
Page 15 - Valley, who have the language and cultural as well as the technical skills to function well in both the United States and foreign markets are distinctly positioned to play a central role in this environment. They are creating social structures that enable even the smallest producers to locate and maintain mutually beneficial collaborations across long distances and that facilitate access to Asian sources of capital, manufacturing capabilities, skills, and markets. These ties have measurable economic...
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Page 1 - Cross-border migration, combined with the "brain drain" from developing to industrial countries, will be one of the major forces shaping the landscape of the 21st century, for at least three reasons.