Gena Asher | Dec. 6, 2008
Associate professor Steve Raymer is author of "India’s Reverse Diaspora," a piece written and published on the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization’s Web site. The piece looks at the numbers of Indian émigrés returning to India from abroad to work in call centers and software and engineering companies. “While Indians still go abroad to work and study – there are a record 80,000 Asian Indian students now enrolled in US universities – a new class of Indian expatriates, fluent in the ways of the West, energizes India,” he writes. “By several estimates, between 50,000 and 60,000 information-technology professionals alone have returned to India from overseas since 2003, most to the suburbs of New Delhi, Hyderabad and especially Bangalore, the nexus of what Indians call their ‘brain gain.’”
Also, the Insight section of the South China Morning Post, the largest English-language daily in Hong Kong, recently reprinted the piece.
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