Louise Ackers, School of Nursing, Midwifrey, Social Work & Social Sciences, University of Salford, UK and Bryony Gill, formerly Research Fellow, ELPRG, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, UK

• Contents: Foreword by Marek Okólski 1. Introduction: Moving People and Knowledge – Defining the Research Agenda Part I: Understanding Migration Behaviour and Patterns 2. Circulators, Returners and Settlers: Migration Trajectories and Patterns 3. Migration Processes and their Determinants: ‘Professional’ Factors 4. The Impact of Partnering on Migration Processes and Outcomes 5. Multiple Life-courses? The Impact of Children on Migration Processes 6. The Role of Networks and Connections in Shaping Migration Processes and Effects Part II: Assessing Impact: The Experience of Receiving and Sending Countries 7. Brain Gain? Assessing the Value of Scientific Migration to Receiving Countries 8. Brain Drain? The Experiences of Sending Countries 9. Summary, Conclusions and Policy Implications References Index

'The book can be seen as a welcomed contribution to this field of study. . . [it] raises some important questions and problems of scientific mobility.'

Louise Ackers, School of Nursing, Midwifrey, Social Work & Social Sciences, University of Salford, UK and Bryony Gill, formerly Research Fellow, ELPRG, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, UK

• Contents: Foreword by Marek Okólski 1. Introduction: Moving People and Knowledge – Defining the Research Agenda Part I: Understanding Migration Behaviour and Patterns 2. Circulators, Returners and Settlers: Migration Trajectories and Patterns 3. Migration Processes and their Determinants: ‘Professional’ Factors 4. The Impact of Partnering on Migration Processes and Outcomes 5. Multiple Life-courses? The Impact of Children on Migration Processes 6. The Role of Networks and Connections in Shaping Migration Processes and Effects Part II: Assessing Impact: The Experience of Receiving and Sending Countries 7. Brain Gain? Assessing the Value of Scientific Migration to Receiving Countries 8. Brain Drain? The Experiences of Sending Countries 9. Summary, Conclusions and Policy Implications References Index

'The book can be seen as a welcomed contribution to this field of study. . . [it] raises some important questions and problems of scientific mobility.'

Louise Ackers, School of Nursing, Midwifrey, Social Work & Social Sciences, University of Salford, UK and Bryony Gill, formerly Research Fellow, ELPRG, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, UK

• Contents: Foreword by Marek Okólski 1. Introduction: Moving People and Knowledge – Defining the Research Agenda Part I: Understanding Migration Behaviour and Patterns 2. Circulators, Returners and Settlers: Migration Trajectories and Patterns 3. Migration Processes and their Determinants: ‘Professional’ Factors 4. The Impact of Partnering on Migration Processes and Outcomes 5. Multiple Life-courses? The Impact of Children on Migration Processes 6. The Role of Networks and Connections in Shaping Migration Processes and Effects Part II: Assessing Impact: The Experience of Receiving and Sending Countries 7. Brain Gain? Assessing the Value of Scientific Migration to Receiving Countries 8. Brain Drain? The Experiences of Sending Countries 9. Summary, Conclusions and Policy Implications References Index

'The book can be seen as a welcomed contribution to this field of study. . . [it] raises some important questions and problems of scientific mobility.'