1095 



manpower needs. Moreover, civen the perceptible trends in the future, 

 this reliance on the Asian LDCs is expected not only to continue but 

 to increase as Australia's development needs magnify. 



Talent Migration to the United States Since tM Late lOJ^O's 



Sources on the brain drain problem emphasize either directly or by 

 implication that the United States is a mecca for migrating scientists, 

 engineers, physicians, and other professionals. Dr. Zbigniew Brzezin- 

 ski of Columbia University described this phenomenon in these words : 

 "America's professional attraction for the global scientific elite is 

 without historic precedent in either scale or scope." ^~^ The vast dimen- 

 sion and complexities of this phenomenon are revealed in the mass 

 of statistics published by the United States, some pertinent examples 

 of which are reproduced in Tables 5, 6 and 7. They are also evident 

 in the many evaluative statements by students of specific aspects of 

 the problem. For instance, Dr. Perkins concluded that collectively 

 the statistics and studies on the brain drain present a "somber pic- 

 ture," particularly for the LDCs.^^^ 



UNITAR STUDY, 19 70 : IMMIGRATION OF PROFESSIOXAL MANPOWER 



Viewing postwar immigration into the United States in the large, it 

 is possible to identify two general trends: (1) a large and rapid in- 

 crease in the immigration of PTKs in general, and (2) a steep rise in 

 the immigration of professionals from the LDCs, particulaily after 

 the mid-1960*s. In his study on the emigration of high-level manpower 

 from the LDCs prepared under the auspices of the United Nations In- 

 stitute for Training and Research (LTNITAR), Gregory Henderson 

 gives the following explanation of these trends based on statistical 

 data drawn from official American sources. ' 



TABLE 5.— IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED INTO THE UNITED STATES BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND OCCUPATION FROM 

 THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1962, TO THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1967 



Europe: 



Greece 39,608 



Turkey (Europe and Asia).. 7, 808 



Asia: 



Burma NA 



China (including Taiwan).. 51, 218 



Hong Kong... 11,942 



India 10,034 



Indonesia 6,056 



Iran. 5,363 



Iraq 3,128 



Israel 6,694 



Jordan (including Arab Pales- 

 tine). 5,880 



See footnotes at end of table. 



12,006 

 3,455 



NA 

 23, 291 

 1,666 

 6,121 

 2,634 

 3,074 

 1,434 

 2,304 



2,508 



2,068 

 1,518 



NA 

 7,343 



814 

 5,078 



680 

 1,564 



608 

 1, 201 



636 



323 

 327 



40 



1,406 



478 



2,141 



25 



369 



122 



371 



79 



150 



2 31 



10 



619 



189 



624 



14 



85 



52 



130 



38 



26 

 16 



4 

 72 

 17 

 78 



4 

 18 



3 

 48 



180 

 319 



13 

 99 

 83 



174 

 5 



311 

 33 



174 



18 



83 



34 



3 



112 



127 



34 



4 



52 



10 



153 



17 



1™ Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, 

 (Naw York : ViklDR. 1970), p. 30. 

 »" Perkins, op. cit., p. 617. 



