Skilled migrants carry cultural values and stimulate change in monocultural countries

Evidence

Another growing movement is that of professionals, executives, technicians, and other highly skilled personnel. One form this takes is the “brain drain”: university-trained people moving between highly developed countries - a great economic loss for less developed countries. Another form is executives and professionals sent by their companies to work in overseas branches or joint ventures, or experts sent by international organizations to work in aid programs. Skilled migrants are agents not only of economic change, but also bearers of new cultural values which affect the countries they work in. When they return home they also bring new experiences with them, which may stimulate change in previously monocultural countries such as Japan. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3879

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Atlas multinationalized its ideology through translated web platforms capturing talent — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 567; Host reception of migrants’ food customs strengthened their return to homeland traditions. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 946; Sustaining and transporting fire demands culturally transmitted skill — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 228