Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

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Overview
Human migration denotes any movement by humans from one locality to another,
sometimes over long distances or in large groups. Humans are known to have
migrates extensively throughout history and prehistory.
Today there are different reasons for transnational mobility which is an effect of social
dynamics of globalization. On the one hand transnational corporate groups and
organizations expect more and more global mobility from their employees, which
effects that professional advancement only takes place by an international career
(Kreutzer 2006). Furthermore there are country specific factors which dispose people
to live in a foreign country. Other than migrants they decide in favour of a changing
and temporary stay abroad. This individual personal development has a great
influence on the personal and professional life of the persons concerned and their
families. Company-internal and national mobility programmes play a major role for
the preparation and design of the stay abroad and the return home. Therefore
module II b: 6.1 goes into details of the national programmes.
The module in hand assembles the major facts of the “Push and Pull factors” within
Brain Drain – Brain Gain and illustrates the methods to handle these factors,
especially case management.
Different types of migration have to be kept in mind in this counselling concept:
• Daily human commuting
• Seasonal human migration, mainly related to agriculture
• Permanent migration, for the purposes of permanent or long-term stays
• Local or regional
• Rural to urban, mostly in developing countries
• International migration
The first two courses are
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Course 1: Migration-specific psycho-social issues – push and pull factors and
psychological effects of migration
Course 2: Intercultural counselling and Case Management
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