Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration?

✍ Scribed by Gillian Brock, Michael Blake

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Debating Ethics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to
improve life for their fellow citizens? Are these societies ever permitted to prevent their own citizens from emigrating?

These questions are increasingly important, as the gap between rich and poor societies widens, and as the global migration of skilled professionals intensifies. This volume addresses the ethical rights and responsibilities of such professionals, and of the societies in which they live. Gillian
Brock and Michael Blake agree that the phenomenon of the brain drain is troubling, but offer distinct arguments about what might be permissibly done in response to this phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Debating Ethics
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Brain Drain and Global Justice
NOTES
Part I by Gillian Brock
1 Introduction to Part I
NOTES
2 What Does Global Justice Require?
NOTES
3 Prosperity in Developing Countries, the Effects Departing Individuals Have on Those Left Behind, and Some Policy Options
3.1 PROSPERITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND HOW DEPARTING INDIVIDUALS CAN UNDERMINE IT
3.2 PROSPERITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND HOW DEPARTING INDIVIDUALS CAN PROMOTE IT
3.3 POLICY OPTIONS THAT MIGHT ADDRESS SOME OF THE LOSSES IDENTIFIED
3.4 COMPULSORY SERVICE PROGRAMS
3.5 TAXATION PROGRAMS
NOTES
4 Whose Responsibility Is It to Remedy Losses Caused by the Departure of Skilled Migrants?
4.1 SOME NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS
4.2 SHARING RESPONSIBILITIES FOR LOSSES: WOULD TAXATION AND COMPULSORY SERVICE PROGRAMS BE JUSTIFIED?
4.2.1 Policy Options Concerning Taxation
4.2.2 Compulsory Service
4.3 EXAMINING HOW FAR WE MAY EXTEND THE ANALYSIS OF “RESPONSIBLE, BUT POOR”
NOTES
5 Consideration of Central Anticipated Objections
NOTES
6 Summary of Conclusions from Part I
COMPULSORY SERVICE
Background Conditions
Legitimacy
Presence
Responsibilities
Reasonableness
TAXATION
Legitimacy
Background Conditions
Responsibilities
Reasonableness
NOTE
Part II by Michael Blake
7 The Right to Leave: Looking Back
I THE ARGUMENT FROM RECIPROCITY
II THE ARGUMENT FROM GRATITUDE
i National Identity
ii Political Loyalty
NOTES
8 The Right to Leave: Looking Forward
I GILLIAN BROCK: THE INSTITUTIONAL TURN
II LUCAS STANCZYK: LABOR AND LIBERAL RIGHTS
NOTES
9 The Right to Leave and What Remains
I IN DEFENSE OF THE RIGHT TO LEAVE
i The Argument from Practice
ii The Argument from Interests
iii The Argument from the Separateness of Persons
II RESPONDING TO THE BRAIN DRAIN
i What Can the Developing World Do?
ii What Can the Developed World Do?
iii What Can We Do Together?
NOTES
Part III: Responses
10 Brock Responds to Blake
10.1 GOVERNMENTS’ DUTIES TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR CITIZENS’ NEEDS: THE IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTIONS
10.2 CAPACITY AND FAIRNESS
10.3 IS FREEDOM EVER SO SLIGHTLY DELAYED, FREEDOM DENIED?
10.4 WHEN IS COERCION JUSTIFIED?
10.4.1 Some Clarifications
10.4.2 Blake’s Cases
10.4.3 The Circumstances in Which Agreements are Forged
10.4.4 Changing One’s Life Plans
10.5 SOME REMARKS ON THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
10.5.1 Human-capital Formation
10.5.2 Diaspora and Network Effects
10.5.3 Temporary Migration and Return
10.5.4 Taking Stock
10.6 THE BRAIN DRAIN AS MORAL TRAGEDY
10.7 PERMISSIBLE POLICIES: SOME CONVERGENCE
NOTES
11 Blake Responds to Brock
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Index