@article{fdi:010071777,
  title = {{N}etwork approach versus brain drain : lessons from the diaspora},
  author = {{M}eyer, {J}ean-{B}aptiste},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{F}or the past two decades, network approaches have led to many conceptual and empirical developments in the studies of international migration as well as of technological innovation. {H}owever, surprisingly, such approaches have hardly been used for the study of what is at the intersection of both fields, namely the mobility of highly skilled persons or knowledge workers. {T}his article draws on recent evidence brought by case studies on intellectual diaspora networks to bridge this gap and to explore the issue. {T}hese highly skilled expatriate networks, through a connectionist approach linking diaspora members with their countries of origin, turn the brain drain into a brain gain approach. {T}hese persons and groups also provide original information that questions conventional human capital based assumptions. {T}he article argues that descriptions in terms of network open interesting perspectives for the understanding as well as management of the current global skills' circulation. {T}he network approach under consideration combines input from migration as well as from innovation studies. {T}his suggests an expanded version of the network approach, referring to actors and intermediaries, of which traditional kinship ties are but a part of more systematic associative dynamics actually at work.},
  keywords = {{SCIENCE} ; {MIGRATION} {INTERNATIONALE} ; {EXODE} {DES} {COMPETENCES} ; {DIASPORA} ; {ETUDE} {DE} {CAS} ; {SOCIOLOGIE} {DE} {LA} {SCIENCE} ; {RESEAU} {DE} {RECHERCHE} ; {ECONOMIE} {DU} {SAVOIR} ; {AFRIQUE} {DU} {SUD} ; {COLOMBIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{I}nternational {M}igration},
  volume = {39},
  numero = {5},
  pages = {91--110},
  ISSN = {0020-7985},
  year = {2001},
  DOI = {10.1111/1468-2435.00173},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010071777},
}