U.S. immigration policy will drive away entrepreneurs, scientists and other educated people if it doesn't change, according to Vivek Wadhwa, the executive in residence at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. The result will be a "REVERSE BRAIN DRAIN," where five years from now "the illegal and unskilled will still be here, but those that contribute significantly to U.S. competitiveness will be long gone."
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Comments:
Reverse Brain Drain would indicate that the smart/skilled are coming you your location.
"U.S. immigration policy will drive away entrepreneurs, scientists and other educated people...". That is what Brain Drain is, if I am not mistaken.
Brain drain is when the smart come to your country to get skilled and then leave to return to their own country. Typically the cost/effort spent training them isn't recouped before they head back to their home country.
Reverse brain drain could be defined as "native" smart people becoming skilled and leaving for foreign lands (or leaving for foreign lands to get skilled and then work).
I know I have no particular allegiance to my country and would certainly consider positions in other first-world nations - especially if they spoke English like Australia, the UK, Canada, California. OK, maybe not California...
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