Read the article about brain drain and narrate it in detail paying attention to the definition of the phenomenon, its reasons and peculiarities. At the end of your narration answer the questions: Why do contemporary Russian citizens leave the country fore

Read the article about brain drain and narrate it in detail paying attention to the definition of the phenomenon, its reasons and peculiarities. At the end of your narration answer the questions: Why do contemporary Russian citizens leave the country forever? Would you personally agree to live and work abroad? Why?

Brain drain

A brain drain or human capital flight is a large emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge, normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks. A brain drain is usually regarded as an economic cost, since emigrants usually take with them the fraction of value of their training sponsored by the government. It is a parallel of "capital flight" which refers to the same movement of financial capital. The term was coined by the Royal Society to describe the emigration of "scientists and technologists" to North America from post-war Europe. The converse phenomenon is brain gain, which occurs when there is a large-scale "immigration" of technically qualified persons. Brain drain can be stopped by providing individuals who have expertise with career opportunities and giving them opportunities to prove their capabilities.

Brain drains are common amongst developing nations, particularly former colonies like much of Africa or the island nations of the Caribbean. A few years before, Europe was one of extreme sufferers of the brain-drain. In Europe brain drain was occurring in two stages. First was the migration of workers from the southeastern Europe and Eastern Europe to the Western Europe. And other stage of brain-drain was the migration from Western Europe to the USA. But this cycle of migration is getting slower these days. To stop the brain-drain Europe community also launched a provision called “Blue-card”. It’s same as green-card facility of USA. In fact EU was getting much more liable for the immigrants of Asia in last decade in order to compensate the brain-drain. But at the same time EU is worried about the effects of foreign population on culture and environment of Europe, so these days EU is implying some strict rules to regulate flow of immigrants.

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