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The growing scientific research output from Asia has been making headlines since the start of the twenty-first century. But behind this science story, there is a migration story. The elite scientists who are pursuing cutting-edge research in Asia are rarely 'homegrown' talent but were typically born in Asia, trained in the West, and then returned to work in Asia. Asian Scientists on the Move explores why more and more Asian scientists are choosing to return to Asia, and what happens after their return, when these scientists set up labs in Asia and start training the next generation of Asian scientists. Drawing on evocative firsthand accounts from 119 Western-trained Asian scientists about their migration decisions and experiences, and in-depth analysis of the scientific field in four country case studies - China, India, Singapore and Taiwan - the book reveals the growing complexity of the Asian scientist migration system.
List of contents
Part I. Contexts: 1. Introduction; 2. Four Case Studies of Science in Asia; Part II. Circulations: 3. Leaving Home, Heading West; 4. Learning Science in the West; 5. Return to the Future or the Past?; 6. Asian Women Scientists on the Move; Part III. Consequences: 7. New Scientific Research Systems in a Changing Asia; 8. Shifting Scientific Cultures in a Changing Asia; 9. Conclusion.
About the author
Anju Mary Paul is an international migration scholar with a research focus on emergent migration patterns to, from and within Asia. Her previous books include the award-winning Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) and Local Encounters in a Global City (Ethos Books 2017).
Summary
This book is ideal not only for migration scholars, science and technology studies scholars, policymakers, and university leaders, but also for practicing scientists and students of science. It explains how Asian scientist migrations are changing and being changed by the evolving scientific arena in China, India, Singapore and Taiwan.
