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徙者的移徙动态。 本研究以“知识移民”为框架，以中国和美国为样本，旨在了解知识移民的主体、原因和地点，并考察各国政策对知识移民的影响。该项目将有助于人们对国家间人员流动及其动机的认识，并为理解受过高等教育者的移徙增加地理层面。这个项目意义重大，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。更好地了解这些受过高等教育的移民的动态，可以为促进互利的知识移民的政策提供信息。调查结果将有助于美国国家，地方和机构领导人保留/建立一个多元化的美国培训的劳动力不同的背景和不同的领域，提高地方，区域和国家的经济发展。本项目将由一个跨学科的国际研究团队进行，采用多层次、多方法的研究方法，将调查和深度访谈与二手数据分析和GIS制图相结合，对三个移民群体的横截面样本进行研究：在中国的国际移民前学生，在中国出生的国际学生和在美国的教师，以及在中国出生和在美国接受培训的教师和专业回国人员。这项研究的结果预计将推进流动性和跨国主义的理论，并将增加一个地理层面的理解，高学历的移民。 研究结果将有助于进一步的研究进行比较分析，与其他主要的高学历移民发送和接收地点在未来。