Intellectual Migration Dynamics Between China and the U.S.

中美之间的智力移民动态

• 批准号: 1660526
• 负责人: Wei Li
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1660526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Intellectual; Migration; Dynamics; Between; China

This project seeks to understand the migration dynamics of highly educated migrants. Using the "intellectual migration" framework and empirically connecting China and the United States, the research aims to understand the who, why, and where, of intellectual migration and examine how country-specific policies impact intellectual migration. This project will contribute to ideas about the movement of people between countries and what motivates them, and adds a geographical dimension to the understanding of the migration of the highly educated. This project is significant as China has been a main source of international students and foreign-born professionals in the U.S. in recent decades. A better understanding of the dynamics of these highly-educated migrants can inform policies that facilitate mutually beneficial intellectual migration. Findings will help US national, local and institutional leaders to retain/build a diverse US-trained workforce of different backgrounds and in different fields which enhances local, regional, and national economic development. This project will be conducted by an interdisciplinary and international team of researchers and employs a multi-level and multi-methods approach, integrating surveys and in-depth interviews with secondary data analysis and GIS mapping to study a cross-sectional sample of three groups of migrants: pre-international-migration students in China, China-born international students and faculty in the U.S., and China-born and US-trained faculty and professional returnees in China. Results from this study are expected to advance theory on mobility and transnationalism, and will add a geographical dimension to the understanding of the migration of the highly educated. Findings will facilitate further research to conduct comparative analysis with other major highly-educated migrant sending and receiving locations in the future.

该项目旨在了解受过高等教育的移民的移民动态。 该研究利用“智力移民”框架，通过实证联系中国和美国，旨在了解智力移民的主体、原因和地点，并研究各国具体政策如何影响智力移民。该项目将有助于人们了解国家之间的人员流动及其动机，并为理解受过高等教育的人的移民增加地理维度。该项目意义重大，因为近几十年来中国一直是美国国际学生和外国出生的专业人士的主要来源国。更好地了解这些受过高等教育的移民的动态可以为促进互惠互利的智力移民政策提供依据。研究结果将帮助美国国家、地方和机构领导人保留/建立一支不同背景、不同领域、在美国接受过培训的多元化劳动力队伍，从而促进地方、区域和国家经济发展。该项目将由跨学科的国际研究团队进行，采用多层次、多方法的方法，将调查和深度访谈与二次数据分析和地理信息系统制图相结合，对三组的横截面样本进行研究移民：国际移民前在中国的学生、在中国出生的在美国的国际学生和教师、在中国出生并在美国接受培训的教师和专业海归。这项研究的结果预计将推进关于流动性和跨国主义的理论，并将为理解受过高等教育的人的移民增加地理维度。 研究结果将有助于进一步研究，与未来其他主要高学历移民输出地和接收地进行比较分析。