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Title

Scientists in exile : issues and perspectives on the refugee experience : AAAS annual meeting, Philadelphia, 28 May, 1986, a symposium / organized by Kathie McCleskey, Susan S. Forbes.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Association for the Advancement of Science, c1988.

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Additional Authors

• McCleskey, Kathie.
• Martin, Susan F. (Susan Forbes)
• McCleskey, Kathiee.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.
• Refugee Policy Group.
• Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.

Description

v, 57 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

This is a report of an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) symposium in 1986 sponsored by the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and the Washington-based Refugee Policy Group. The report, consisting of seven speeches, aims to provide a first-hand account of the many facets of the life of the scientist as a refugee, especially in the United States. The first chapter gives a historical overview of the flows of intellectual refugees to the United States and some of the special programmes, notably by the National Academy of Sciences in 1956, designed to help them. The second chapter describes several causes of emigration of scientists from Latin America. The author, an Argentine mathematician, also discusses the problems of reinsertion, focusing mainly on Argentina. The third chapter deals with Central America and the relationships between the governments and the universities. The author describes a programme that is trying to keep scientists, professors and researchers in the region. In the fourth chapter, a Chilean geneticist briefly presents the relationship of scientists to the home country using personal anecdotes from Chile. The fifth chapter, written by a representative of the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (ICM), introduces a few programmes, such as ICM's "The Return of Talent Programs", available to regain the benefits of specialists, like scientists, in their countries of origin. The fifth chapter treats the general problem of the roots of the causes and the reasons why exile is necessary. The author, a Polish scientist working in the United States, distinguishes between the scientist as a teacher, who he feels should remain in his country, and the scientist as a creative human being, who he feels should go abroad. The final chapter is a personal recounting of the experience of an exiled scientist from the Soviet Union in the United States

Series Statement

AAAS publication ; 88-17

Uniform Title

AAAS publication ; 88-17.

Subject

Scientists

Note

• "The symposium and this report were funded by the Morgenstern-Fabian Foundation, Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey with assistance from the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility".
• "AAAS Symposium report".
• "The Refugee Policy Group and the AAAS Committe on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility organized a symposium ... at the 1986 annual meeting ..."--Pref.

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• committed to retain

OCLC

20323557

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