The Best Trek

In the last two years of economic crisis have migrated 120,000 Spanish. Until then, the phenomenon had been the opposite: receiving a flood of immigrants, little or no trained, thanks to a myopic policy papers for all. Now, however, the profile of our emigrants is young people between 25 and 35 years, professional and highly qualified studies.

That is, the resulting productivity of our workforce down necessarily.

In addition, no longer the case as before, that only left the country without means young researchers in Spain. Moreover, to prevent, José María Aznar led a short-lived for fifteen years brain drain return operation which allowed us to retrieve, for example, and only in the field of oncology, Mariano Barbacid, Eugenio Santos and Joan Massagué.

But now is not only scientists fleeing, attracted by the high potential for R & D + i in the United Kingdom, Germany or the United States but that the diaspora has spread to other professionals such as economists, engineers and sociologists. Many of them take advantage of scholarships for postgraduate studies abroad and, through training and contacts acquired recently hired by multinational companies.

It is, therefore, a collective national impoverishment will be consequences in the near future. At European level has already warned the group of scholars headed Felipe González: we have to compete to attract skilled immigrants, as do Canada, Australia and the U.S., or you simply stay on the shelf.