A Study On The Return Of Oversea Talents And Their Social Adaptation After Flowing Back To China

Since Rong Hong, Huang Sheng and Huang Kuan firstly went to study in the U.S,164years has passed. During hundreds of years, China has undergone great changes. At the same time, the tide of international migration of talents was up and down. It opened the door to the world with Reform and Opening Up policy. Many talents went abroad to pursue more opportunities to develop themselves, which was a painful experience for China. However, in the new century, more and more talents flowed back to China. While the international competition of talents growing more intensive in the world at present, we are glad to see that more and more overseas Chinese talents flow back to China. But we must recognize clearly that quite a number of Chinese talents have been delaying in foreign as well. China may also encounter a severe situation that some talents who came back would go abroad again. After a careful research on these talents reflowing questions, we can find that the key point is the process of the talents reflowing, which focuses on the will and the intention of the reflowing and how did they to adapt to the society after returning. Therefore, It has a necessarily practical significance on the further perfection of the introduction policy of Chinese overseas talents, and an important theoretical impact on the deeply understanding of the international population migration and social adaption and localization theory that making an intensive study on the above aspects.Based on full and accurate data by general investigation and a fund of interview with Chinese overseas talents, the author adopted the research methods of analysis on quantity and quality and analysis contrasted by longitudinally and laterally, and analyzed three contents in this thesis. Firstly, the thesis sorts out of the history of international talents flow since modern times and status quo of Chinese talents drain and gain. Secondly, on the basis of thorough research on characteristics of overseas Chinese talents those who come back, the author made a comprehensive research on different identified overseas Chinese talents'reflowing will, intention and the social adaptation situation in their careers and economical achievements, families and human relations, and cultural identification. And finally, according to the conclusion of the research, the author discussed applicability of international population migration and social adaptation theory with the explanation of the reflowing of overseas Chinese talents.After the analysis above, the thesis reaches the following points:1,The economy and some other macrocosm ic factors have great impacts on the behaviors of talents flow. Thus, the author studied on the test and verification of the microcosmic statistics and the previous researchers'macrocosmic analysis results. Under the same macroeconomic circumstances, the significance of the personnel, migration features and family factors become greater than that affected by the microeconomic circumstances. Their spouse living condition, the reflowing will of their spouse and their children'educational situation will affect their behaviors greatly.2,The different identity does have some influences on the reflowing will. It has little effect on the reflowing intention. These facts reflect that whether the different political status and social welfare condition will give an impetus to the reflowing or not. Different personnel, migration and family factors have different influences on various identified overseas talents'reflowing will. However, it should be affected greatly by their career situation, living conditions and the reflowing will of their spouses, and their parents'living conditions.3,The main motivation of reflowing is the decision between the investment will and job will of personal development. Various socio-demographic features, socio-economic status and family members'characters lead to various intentions. While investment, jobs and family wills are the major ones, the will and motivation of reflowing of the overseas students are affected greatly by the social developing system and adaptation conditions abroad. 4,With the mighty influences of the domestic culture, social system and circumstances, overseas students have limited capability of initiative in the process of adaptation after reflowing. The procedure has the features different from that of internal trans-regional and cross-bordering migration. It is the process of adaptation which affected by the passive acceptance with high expectations, cultural attribution, economical, social and psychological adaptations.5,According to the individual differences, the thesis shows three adaptation modes of talents returning. At First, many overseas talents cannot adapt to the internal circumstances after long-time adjustment and they decide to return to foreign countries or do another migration. Secondly, the domestic situations assimilated many overseas talents after their active adaptation. Thirdly, some others may passively integrate into the internal conditions with their previous manners before they went abroad, and try to re-build the overseas living and communication modes actively and selectively.6,The analysis in this thesis of some relative theories shows that the theory of international population migration explained the talents reflowing limitedly. While classic social adaptation theories are applicable to the adaptation questions of overseas talents reflowing to some extent but have limited explanation of the process and results of social adaptation.The author made some new attempts in the following in three aspects in the thesis:Firstly, according to the different identities of overseas talents, the author fixed that the Chinese with foreign countries nationality, overseas Chinese and overseas students are the objects of the study. The author viewed the differences of the will and intention of the reflowing between different kinds of overseas talents in micro-perspective.Secondly, the author quoted the research method of Transport Geography with visualized maps of Arcgis, the Geographic Information System Software, to analyze the features of geographical spatial distribution and its variation of the overseas talents. On the basis of the structural characters of the statistics, the Layered Structure Model has been introduced to control and analyze the different effects of the different returning intentions and wills in micro-perspective. The author also introduced the Economic Sociology Embedding theory to summarize the social adaptation process and their three modes of the reflowing talents.Thirdly, based on the research conclusion, the author discussed the localization of the western countries population migration and the social adaptation theory application. In accordance with features of the reflowing talents, the author tried to build an analytical framework of the culture attribution, economical, social and psychological adaptation of the returning overseas talents in this thesis.