Abstract: This paper seeks to contribute to the debate over Malaysia’s brain drain by
critically examining the role of education as well as the changing socio-economic pressures
faced by younger generations. It is argued that specific features of Malaysian education
and political economy, with their attendant racial fixations, are contributing to the country’s
brain drain. Although there is a lack of consensus about the actual economic impact of the
brain drain, the Malaysian government continues to dedicate substantial amounts of time,
energy and resources into ‘talent’ initiatives with the aim of training and retaining domestic
talent, while simultaneously luring highly-skilled foreign migrants to Malaysia and enticing
the diaspora to return home. Drawing on interviews and observations from public
universities and the burgeoning civil society sector in Malaysia, and supplemented by
content analysis of recent films and theatre performances, this paper argues that most
government initiatives have been undermined by a lack of foresight attributed largely to the
straightjacket of Malaysian electoral politics and perennially ‘sensitive’ communal relations.
Abstract: This paper seeks to contribute to the debate over Malaysia’s brain drain by
critically examining the role of education as well as the changing socio-economic pressures
faced by younger generations. It is argued that specific features of Malaysian education
and political economy, with their attendant racial fixations, are contributing to the country’s
brain drain. Although there is a lack of consensus about the actual economic impact of the
brain drain, the Malaysian government continues to dedicate substantial amounts of time,
energy and resources into ‘talent’ initiatives with the aim of training and retaining domestic
talent, while simultaneously luring highly-skilled foreign migrants to Malaysia and enticing
the diaspora to return home. Drawing on interviews and observations from public
universities and the burgeoning civil society sector in Malaysia, and supplemented by
content analysis of recent films and theatre performances, this paper argues that most
government initiatives have been undermined by a lack of foresight attributed largely to the
straightjacket of Malaysian electoral politics and perennially ‘sensitive’ communal relations.
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