Migrations et fuite des cerveaux dans les économies insulaires caribéennes : éléments de réflexion

• Main Author: Fanny-Aude Bellemare
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Antilles 2010-08-01
• Series: Études Caribéennes
• Subjects: skilled emigration rate; human capital; Caribbean diaspora; insular economy; brain drain
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/4702

Far from being a new phenomenon, the international motilities have increased since the 60’s. Today, the context of globalization tends to accelerate the migratory dynamics while at the same time observed a rise of the educational levels. The increase of the brain drain has respite to many questions.Nevertheless, image, nature of flows of skilled migrants combined with relative data’s fragility and the necessity to approach the problem and presenting appropriate policies, impose an analysis case by case. Using data relating to the Caribbean diaspora on the statistical basis of Docquier and Marfouk, this article purpose a reflection on the factors that explain the brain drain in the Caribbean islands.