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Defined primarily in terms of the exodus of the highly talented from the Southern countries to the North, the phenomenon known as "brain drain" has gained in importance during recent decades and years. Changing global conditions, unprecedented developments in information and electronic technology, globalization, and widening of the gap between the South and the North have focused attention on the brain drain. We begin this article by discussing the nature of the brain drain, briefly noting that it occurs in three settings: internal, regional, and global. Our argument here is that brain drain occurs in almost all societies, initially from poorer and impoverished rural areas to relatively rich and developing urban centers within national boundaries and later (or sometimes concurrently) to more developed and wealthy regions and neighboring countries.

Preliminary Material /Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Amar Wahab -- From Stigma to Celebration /Cecilie Øedegaard -- Passing for Black? /Stanley Doyle-Wood -- Queer Diasporic (Non) Identity /Amy Stone -- Nomadism /Julia Meredith Hess -- Youth and Post-migration Cultural Identities /Nazilla Khanlou -- The Meaning of Displacement and the Displacement of Meaning /Martha Kuwee Kumsa -- The Other 90% /Lauren Wagner -- The Revolutionary Other /Gregory Betts -- Radical Potentiality /Sam López -- Further Reading /Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Ama Wahab.

Preliminary Material /Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Amar Wahab -- Globalization as Process and Product /Christine A. Monnier and R. Dean Peterson -- States of Denial /Beth Baker-Cristales -- Development, Displacement and Diaspora /Pablo S. Bose -- Redefining My Professional Identity /Anna Kirova -- Blue Collar Patrones /Taku Suzuki -- Too Familiar to be Entirely Alien, Too Alien to be Entirely Familiar /Hugo René Viera-Vargas -- Deconstructing Dimensions of Islamic Identity /Jasmin Zine -- Contradiction, Exclusion and Disruptive Identities /Jonathan Curry-Machado -- New Stories and Diasporic Discourses of Identification /Dina Matar -- Soviet Jews in Toronto /Alexander Shvarts -- The Geography of Desire /Taina Chahal -- About the Authors /Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Amar Wahab -- Other Titles Of Interest /Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Amar Wahab.

Since the 1990s about 20 000 highly educated Africans migrate every year to the North. The contributions to this volume address various dimensions of this brain drain. After broad overviews on the historic and contemporary African diasporas four articles conceptualise the forces that have engendered the brain drain from Africa. This part is followed by five country case studies (Sudan, Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia and Ghana). The last six essays examine the state and potential contributions of African intellectual diaspora in Europe and North America. (DÜI-Sbd)

This book explores issues of nationalism and intra-state conflicts in postcolonial nations. Drawing from international law, social anthropology, political science and strategic studies, peace and conflict studies, and memory studies, each chapter adopts a unique conceptual lens and discourse to understand the nationalism debate and its conflicts.