Iranian Journal of Engineering Education

Causal layered analysis of high-skilled diaspora: Case study of Iran

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

Mohammad Hoseini Moghadam 1
Hassan Bashiri 2

1 Foresight Department, Institute for Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS)

2 Faculty Memember, Head of Department

https://doi.org/10.22047/ijee.2019.169492.1619
Abstract
Iran’s society movement from current situation to preferable developed condition has been turned into a common sense among Iranian scientist, elites and politicians. Politician, elites and scientists of Iran society in their self-consciousness and tangible layer of knowledge believe that using experts and gifted people’ capabilities for development and even through reverse the brain drain absorbing and recruiting trained and educated people into the helping their own country’ development, since human asset is one of the most important driving forces behind development. In this research we dive to concept of brain drain and high skilled diaspora. The primary question here is whether Iranians who are living in abroad are contributing to the growth of their home country. The conventional view conceives of the emigration of citizens from their countries of origin as necessarily depriving their home countries of their services. The proposed methodology for answering this question is causal layered analysis (CLA). According to this methodology, there exist different factors that are conducive to brain drain, which can be categorized as either tangible or non-tangible.

Keywords

Brain drain
high skilled diaspora
futures studies
globalization
causal layered analysis
Subjects
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  • Receive Date 26 January 2019
  • Revise Date 07 July 2019
  • Accept Date 08 July 2019
  • First Publish Date 23 August 2019
  • Publish Date 23 August 2019

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