Return Migration in the Asia Pacific

Edited by Robyn Iredale, Australian Centre for Population Research Demography and Sociology Program, Australian National University, Fei Guo, Lecturer, Demography Program, Department of Business, Macquarie University, Australia and Santi Rozario, Cardiff University, UK

Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid significantly less attention to the movement of people than they have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance and provides timely insights into recent developments in return skilled migration in four regions in the Asia Pacific – Bangladesh, China, Taiwan and Vietnam. The authors believe that the movement of skilled migrants, and the tacit knowledge they bring with them, is a vital component in the process of globalisation.

“这可能是及时和编辑卷first to survey the increasingly prominent phenomenon of return skilled migration in the Asia Pacific. Comprising country-specific studies on Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, the various contributors seek to capture the nuances of the ‘brain drain reversal’ and the impact on their home economies as well as the host countries. . . The value of this volume also lies in its being empirically rich. The use of primary data involving a conscious engagement with common methodology and a comparative perspective allows for a ‘common language’ with which to make comparisons and longitudinal assessments on the developing patterns and trends of return migration.’
– Eugene K.B. Tan, Ethnic and Racial Studies

‘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 be welcomed as the first multi-country study to be published on the return of skilled and business migrants and the impact that they can have on their home economies in Asia and the Pacific. That impact is shown to be various and to change over time, the contributions clearly varying depending upon the nature of the environments to which the migrants have returned. The book presents valuable material from Bangladesh, China, Taiwan and Viet Nam, together with a contextual analysis of migrant communities from these economies in Australia.’
– Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex, UK