Debating Brain Drain

Gillian Brock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her recent and current research focuses on global justice and related fields. Her most recent works with Oxford University Press include Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (2009) and Cosmopolitanism versus Non-Cosmopolitanism (2013).Michael Blake is Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He writes about international distributive justice and the ethics of immigration. He is the author of Justice and Foreign Policy (OUP, 2013).

This book contributes to one of the central questions of our time, and deserves to be read by a wide audience.

• Introduction ; Part I ; By Gillian Brock ; 1. Introduction to Part I ; 2. What Does Global Justice Require? ; 3. Prosperity in Developing Countries, the Effects Departing Individuals Have on Those Left Behind, and Some Policy Options ; 4. Whose Responsibility is it to Remedy Losses Caused by the Departure of Skilled Migrants? ; 5. Consideration of Central Anticipated Objections ; 6. Summary of Conclusions from Part I ; Part II ; By Michael Blake ; 7. The Right to Leave: Looking Back ; 8. The Right to Leave: Looking Forward ; 9. The Right to Leave and What Remains ; Part III ; Responses by Gillian Brock and Michael Blake ; 10. Brock Responds to Blake ; 11. Blake Responds to Brock ; Index