Drain or gain?

As most of us are the students who will go to study abroad, have you ever think about working or immigrating to another country? For me, I had though about that once in my life; I though that would it be great if I could worked abroad because working abroad is well paid. After a while, I stopped that thinking because I though that I must really miss Thailand if I need to work in another country. "Drain or gain?" is an article in the Economist which is writing about the emigration of people from developing countries to developed countries.

In "Drain or gain?", the writer explains that not only the workers, but also people with well-educated from developing countries tend to emigrate. They earn more in developed country which is the main reason for them to move. This situation causes the problems to poor countries because their governments are the person who pay for primarily education of well educated people and after they graduated, they immigrant to another country which causes the home countries to lost their skilled worker. In case of India, "A big survey of Indian households carried out in 2004 asked about family members who had moved abroad. It found that nearly 40% of emigrants had more than a high-school education, compared with around 3.3% of all Indians over the age of 25." (¶ 2) However, homeland of migrants also gain something, the most obvious way is through remittances. "In Lebanon, Lesotho, Nepal, Tajikistan and a few other places, remittances are more than 20% of GDP."(¶ 4)

I have seen many Thai people especially people who graduated from abroad emigrate to other countries. They usually immigrate because of the money, even though it is not much in the eyes of the citizens in that country, if we calculate it to Thai bath, it turns into large amount of money. Good point is you earn a lot of money, but living abroad is not as good as some of you think because we need to face up with unfamiliar culture, unfamiliar people and if you go there alone, you must be very lonely. In my opinion, it is a good idea that we just work there for a while to save money, and then go back to our home country, because there is no where in this world would as good as your home country.

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References

(May 26,2011). Drain or Gain?. The Economist. Retrieved June 18, 2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/18741763