Reverse Brain Drain: Indian Immigrants in U.S. Returning Home

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 22:33 IST   |    8 Comments
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Bangalore: India is currently experiencing cases of reverse brain drain as there is a huge increase in the number of Indian immigrant’s children returning to their motherland, say experts. They have started to realize the potential of India and are ready to accept their hometown and culture, which their parents ignored once.

Samir Kapadia who settled in the U.S as a young child and later on quit his job there and moved to Mumbai is a good example of reverse brain drain. His friends and relatives in India who worked in diverse fields used to tell him about their lives in the rising nation. ‘’I'd sit there on Facebook and on the phone and hear about them starting all these companies and doing all these dynamic things," says Kapadia. "And I started feeling that my 9-to-5 wasn't good enough anymore'', reports Economic Times.

The current situation is challenging the US supremacy and competitiveness and moreover many enterprising Americans have also started to hunt for opportunities outside the nation.

"Markets are opening, people are coming up with ideas every day, there's so much opportunity to mold and create," said Kapadia, who is at present working as a researcher at Gateway House, a Mumbai based foreign-policy research organization. "People here are running much faster than those in Washington."

The depressing hiring process prevailing in the U.S. or the opportunities available abroad can be the reasons for this migration, which is bothering the immigrant parents. Moreover, India is not the only nation experiencing reverse brain drain; countries like China, Brazil and Russia are also there in the list.