Brain Drain and it's Impacts
International Migration Convention
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families entered into force in July 2003. Its primary objective is to protect migrant workers and their families, a particularly vulnerable population, from exploitation and the violation of their human rights.
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, scientific Cultural Organisation) advocates ratification of this convention by all states and disseminates information about this convention and other legal instruments concerning migrants. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/international-migration-convention/ For more information refer above link
Skilled Migration and Brain Drain
Skilled migration is a major trend among current migration patterns, being fuelled by the development of knowledge economies and by the emergence of a global labour market for skilled professionals. It is also a major source of concern for many less developed countries, which fear the negative consequences of the loss of skilled nationals in terms of economic and human development. This is also one of the major critics to the Migration without Border scenario developed by UNESCO as, it was argued, it would enable rich countries to freely attract skilled professionals from poorer countries that most need them, hence jeopardising development and creating unfair situations in which rich countries exploit the skilled workforce of LDCs. Brain drain is therefore a major concern for the international community, and there is a need to innovatively think about the way in which people’s aspiration toward mobility and migration can be reconciled with states’ right to development
Five major issues will be explored:
The ethics of brain drain: Brain drain is not only an economic issue, but raises a wide range of ethnical, legal and philosophical questions. Under which ethical framework can the outflow of
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families entered into force in July 2003. Its primary objective is to protect migrant workers and their families, a particularly vulnerable population, from exploitation and the violation of their human rights.
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, scientific Cultural Organisation) advocates ratification of this convention by all states and disseminates information about this convention and other legal instruments concerning migrants. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/international-migration-convention/ For more information refer above link
Skilled Migration and Brain Drain
Skilled migration is a major trend among current migration patterns, being fuelled by the development of knowledge economies and by the emergence of a global labour market for skilled professionals. It is also a major source of concern for many less developed countries, which fear the negative consequences of the loss of skilled nationals in terms of economic and human development. This is also one of the major critics to the Migration without Border scenario developed by UNESCO as, it was argued, it would enable rich countries to freely attract skilled professionals from poorer countries that most need them, hence jeopardising development and creating unfair situations in which rich countries exploit the skilled workforce of LDCs. Brain drain is therefore a major concern for the international community, and there is a need to innovatively think about the way in which people’s aspiration toward mobility and migration can be reconciled with states’ right to development
Five major issues will be explored:
The ethics of brain drain: Brain drain is not only an economic issue, but raises a wide range of ethnical, legal and philosophical questions. Under which ethical framework can the outflow of