A nova diáspora africana: médicos e enfermeiros.

Esse assunto já foi tratado aqui, no exemplo dos médicos de Gana. Agora, o The Center for Global Development publica (http://www.cgdev.org) um relatório completíssimo sobre a nova diáspora africana: a de médicos e enfermeiros. Os dados são impressionantes, por exemplo em Moçambique tem 1200 médicos trabalhando em Portugal, há mais de cinco mil médicos marroquinos na França.Faltam enfermeiros em Angola, mas há 1600 trabalhando em Portugal.Reino Unido e Estados Unidos empregam cada um 20 mil enfermeiros de vários países africanos. Em suma, países pobres financiam a formação de profissionais que têm carência e, provavelmente suprem parte da falta contratandos cubanos.

Pergunta: não seria essa transferência de mão de obra qualificada também uma diáspora infame? Talvez, somente superada por aquela outra diáspora dos séculos XVI-XIX da África para as três Américas. O texto abaixo pode ser lido na íntegra em http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12908/

The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to developed countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the causes and effects of the phenomenon has been hampered by a lack of systematic data on the extent of African health workers’ international movements. We use destination-country census data to estimate the number of African-born doctors and professional nurses working abroad in a developed country circa 2000, and compare this to the stocks of these workers in each country of origin. Approximately 65,000 African-born physicians and 70,000 African-born professional nurses were working overseas in a developed country in the year 2000. This represents about one fifth of African-born physicians in the world, and about one tenth of African-born professional nurses. The fraction of health professionals abroad varies enormously across African countries, from 1% to over 70% according to the occupation and country. These numbers are the first standardized, systematic, occupation-specific measure of skilled professionals working in developed countries and born in a large number of developing countries. Center for Global Development New data on African health professionals abroad - Working Paper 95 Michael A. Clemens and Gunilla Pettersson 1776 Massachusetts Ave. NWThird FloorWashington DC 20036Phone: (202) 416-0700Fax: (202) 416-0750E-mail: cgd@cgdev.org