Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2016
The aftermath of September 11, 2001, may certainly be on its way toward affecting the “brain drain” from Africa. The 19 dead Arabs who were accused of having blown up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and of hijacking the fourth plane were all cases of the brain drain from their own countries in one way or another. The effect of September 11 on immigration policies in the Western world appears to be greater scrutiny and reduced Western hospitality. There was a time when high scientific and technological qualifications were regarded as attractive credentials for immigration into the West.
1. The popularity of right-wing figures in Europe, such as Le Pen in France, the late Pym in the Netherlands, and Haider in Austria, is symptomatic of the fears of different cultures in the regions less used to immigration.
2. “American Immigrants Win Nobel Prizes for 1999” [January 2000]; available at http://www.ailf.org/polrep/2000/pr000l.htm.
3. See U.S. Bureau of the Census, Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2001), 23–206 Google Scholar.
4. Emeagwali, Philip, “Why Nigerians Are Not Returning Home,” The News [Lagos], October 10, 1999 Google Scholar.
5. Ibid.; Banjo Otutlo, “Nigerian World: Letters and Viewpoints,” Atlanta Presidential Dialogue, September 2000.
6. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000.
7. Jean M. Johnson and Mark C. Regrets, “International Mobility of Scientists and Engineers to the United States—Brain Drain or Brain Circulation?” National Science Foundation [November 10, 1998]; available at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/issuebrf/sib98316.htm.
8. Barbara Crossette, “Campaigning for Top Job at UNESCO,” New York Times, August 18, 1999, 8.
9. Anthony Lewis, “Mandela the Pol,” New York Times, March 23, 1999, 1.
