Meritocratic Progress through Mobile Talentism,

Meritocratic Progress through Mobile Talentism,

Meritocracy refers to a political system that invests political power and economic goods on individual people based on their talents, achievement, and effort rather than social class or wealth. Individuals who demonstrate achievement advance in such a political system. Mobile talentism, therefore, refers to the transfers or migrations of talents to other areas to spur economic growth. Unlike most migration researches that focus only on the migration-end-effects, Goldin et al. focused on what necessitates migration and to show that global movements have a lot of benefits that surpass the local negative short term impacts that most studies and policies frequently target. These authors’ interdisciplinary migration research looks at the international migration from the historical, social science, and economic perspectives for an objective understanding of foreign migrants as exceptional people.

Goldin et al. looked at the socio-cognitive migration process in their study to supplement the existing after-migration data collection researches that neither aims to averse immigration causes if it is wrong. Golding et al. (page 150) write that migrants’ negative connotation is a misappropriation since international migrants bring in more benefits to the societies than disadvantages that the after-effect researches cannot expose. According to this study, the advantages of migration are national, while the problems are usually local. Take, for example, a receiving port like Heathrow in London, with a high number of migrants from different parts of the world. Some of these migrants may be unemployed, creating pressure on the few available jobs near the airport as well as on housing and other social amenities. However, the benefits of the migrants spread to the more to the whole nation, some of which are immeasurable. For instance, an unskilled migrant employed in informal sectors like families can free working citizens to engage in more productive work that builds a nation. It is, therefore, ideal to have the Migrant’s spread out in a country to reduce the local social, economic, or political pressure on few resources in receiving ports.

The study chose to refer to international migrants as exceptionally talented in that they bring in outside culture required for changes through different/ new ways of doing things. Likewise, the migrants are also exceptional in that they are the bravest and enterprising risk-takers from their homeland courtiers to dare abroad (Goldin et al. 12). The study explains that most historical revolution and innovations started from the migrant basis and that ancient migration may be the cause for human existence today. For example, short-term migrant students and expert migrants have made Oxford University a world champion, something that would be impossible without them. Migration allows for the concentration of the most talented and exceptional to make oxford a world powerhouse of innovation. Besides, the Silicon Valley innovators have migrant routs from Germany, showing that migrant offspring have great potential to spur future growths for the nation even if the current migrants have little expatriate skills.

The benefits that exceed the disadvantages, therefore, call for an international system of regulation the world migrants in the future. An International Migration Organization that represents not only the migrants’ rights as it is currently but also the affected countries’ needs as well. Such a body would effectively manage temporary migration and keep proper records of world migrants with objectifying their benefits. It will also tame the powerful countries’ effects in international politics and create a level playing field that protect all future expert migrants that Goldin et al. project to increase with more globalization shortly.

The primary advice of Golding and his co-authors, therefore, is for the developed western nations to open their borders to benefit from the enormous migrant benefits aligned with the current and future economic demands, albeit with the help of an interactional framework.

Reference

Goldin, I., G. Cameron, and M. Balarajan. “Book Review Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future.” (2011)