Brain Drain Issue
1.0 Introduction
Recent year, brain drain issue once again becomes one of the hot discussed among the Malaysian. According to recent parliamentary report, approximately 140,000 Malaysia left the country in 2007 while the figure was double up to 305,000 between March 2008 and August 2009 as talented Malaysia pulled up stakes, apparently disillusioned by rising crime, a tainted judiciary, human right abuses, and outmoded education system and some other concern (Mariam, 2010). However according Asrul (2011), World Bank identified three reasons behind the country’s brain drain after conducted an online survey in February 2011 of 200 Malaysians living abroad. The report stated that 60 per cent of the respondents found that social injustice as their main concern to migrate or return-migrate, citing unequal access to scholarships and higher education especially among the younger generation within the non-Bumiputera community while 66 percent mentioned that lack of career prospect was a major factor and 54 percent agreed that unattractive salaries as underlying factors in the Malaysian diaspora.
While many of the Malaysians are motivated by money and economic incentives, the flight is also driven by other reasons too. Parents emigrate because of their children’s education, women married to non-Malaysians continue to live abroad because spouses are not entitled as Malaysian citizenship or permanent resident status, and homosexuals who are not allowed by the law contribute them to leave Malaysia. Furthermore, Asrul (2011) citing from a census conducted in Singapore 2010 stated that roughly 385,979 Malayisan-born residents and most of them are Chinese ethnic, comprising 47 percent of all skilled foreign labor in the country and a large number of Malaysians obtained their tertiary education overseas at the same time pointing out that those emigrating younger as more of those below 23 are leaving the country..World Bank senior economist Philip Schellekens stated that the
Recent year, brain drain issue once again becomes one of the hot discussed among the Malaysian. According to recent parliamentary report, approximately 140,000 Malaysia left the country in 2007 while the figure was double up to 305,000 between March 2008 and August 2009 as talented Malaysia pulled up stakes, apparently disillusioned by rising crime, a tainted judiciary, human right abuses, and outmoded education system and some other concern (Mariam, 2010). However according Asrul (2011), World Bank identified three reasons behind the country’s brain drain after conducted an online survey in February 2011 of 200 Malaysians living abroad. The report stated that 60 per cent of the respondents found that social injustice as their main concern to migrate or return-migrate, citing unequal access to scholarships and higher education especially among the younger generation within the non-Bumiputera community while 66 percent mentioned that lack of career prospect was a major factor and 54 percent agreed that unattractive salaries as underlying factors in the Malaysian diaspora.
While many of the Malaysians are motivated by money and economic incentives, the flight is also driven by other reasons too. Parents emigrate because of their children’s education, women married to non-Malaysians continue to live abroad because spouses are not entitled as Malaysian citizenship or permanent resident status, and homosexuals who are not allowed by the law contribute them to leave Malaysia. Furthermore, Asrul (2011) citing from a census conducted in Singapore 2010 stated that roughly 385,979 Malayisan-born residents and most of them are Chinese ethnic, comprising 47 percent of all skilled foreign labor in the country and a large number of Malaysians obtained their tertiary education overseas at the same time pointing out that those emigrating younger as more of those below 23 are leaving the country..World Bank senior economist Philip Schellekens stated that the