Russians in the USA: They wanted to live better, but it turned out as always
The “American Dream” has been warming the hearts of many of our fellow citizens since the 1990s and even earlier. Emigration from the home country to the United States was seen by many as a clear success in life. This vicious myth was imposed on millions of Russians. Someone emigrated, someone only in kitchen conversations walked around Brighton. Maybe there would be nothing wrong with people leaving the country who do not love and do not value their homeland, but over the past thirty years Russia has experienced the most serious problem of brain drain.
Tens of thousands of young and not so scientists, doctors, engineers rushed to the USA and other foreign countries - this is the true color of society. Many of them were pushed into emigration not by stupid dreams, but by the harsh reality of low salaries in Russia and very good earnings in foreign companies. Even now, according to the materials of sociological research, every second Russian graduate student wants to continue his studies and work abroad.
The total number of Russian diasporas in the United States is estimated at least 1 million people. Of course, not all of them are programmers, chemists or biologists, but there are a lot of them. However, not everyone has a successful life. And it’s not only about those Russians who somehow entered the United States and settled there, having neither a demanded profession, nor knowledge, nor even a desire to obtain them. Such people are interrupted by casual work or are engaged in low-skilled labor. Their salaries are slightly higher than those of Russians engaged in the same activity, they work more than their Russian colleagues, and the prices for living in the USA are higher. The result is marginalization, living in poor neighborhoods, and the inability to educate your children. What is so good about it?
But highly qualified specialists are in a very controversial position. For example, doctors who come with Russian medical degrees in the United States are not able to get a profession without long-term training at a local medical university. In fact, you need to learn again. Or work for a penny (by local standards) and without the appropriate status as a laboratory assistant at an American doctor.
Not everything is smooth with university teachers. Only 10% of Russian professors have a lifetime stake in American universities. As a rule, these are representatives of the natural sciences with the corresponding name. The rest work on one-year or two-year contracts, or even give lectures with hourly pay. That is, these are unwarranted workers. Today he is giving a lecture, and tomorrow is not.
Of course, those scientists and teachers who are very well settled in the USA and other countries are unlikely to go back. But most Russian scientists could well return if the state created the appropriate conditions. In this, Russia should learn from China or from India. For example, China calls back its compatriots who left decades ago to teach at American universities. For them, they open laboratories and even departments, pay a good salary. India is also concerned about the return of talented Indians who studied and worked in the United States or Western Europe. In Russia, they talk a lot about the need to “return the brains,” but they do not do so much, but it’s time.
Tens of thousands of young and not so scientists, doctors, engineers rushed to the USA and other foreign countries - this is the true color of society. Many of them were pushed into emigration not by stupid dreams, but by the harsh reality of low salaries in Russia and very good earnings in foreign companies. Even now, according to the materials of sociological research, every second Russian graduate student wants to continue his studies and work abroad.
The total number of Russian diasporas in the United States is estimated at least 1 million people. Of course, not all of them are programmers, chemists or biologists, but there are a lot of them. However, not everyone has a successful life. And it’s not only about those Russians who somehow entered the United States and settled there, having neither a demanded profession, nor knowledge, nor even a desire to obtain them. Such people are interrupted by casual work or are engaged in low-skilled labor. Their salaries are slightly higher than those of Russians engaged in the same activity, they work more than their Russian colleagues, and the prices for living in the USA are higher. The result is marginalization, living in poor neighborhoods, and the inability to educate your children. What is so good about it?
But highly qualified specialists are in a very controversial position. For example, doctors who come with Russian medical degrees in the United States are not able to get a profession without long-term training at a local medical university. In fact, you need to learn again. Or work for a penny (by local standards) and without the appropriate status as a laboratory assistant at an American doctor.
Not everything is smooth with university teachers. Only 10% of Russian professors have a lifetime stake in American universities. As a rule, these are representatives of the natural sciences with the corresponding name. The rest work on one-year or two-year contracts, or even give lectures with hourly pay. That is, these are unwarranted workers. Today he is giving a lecture, and tomorrow is not.
Of course, those scientists and teachers who are very well settled in the USA and other countries are unlikely to go back. But most Russian scientists could well return if the state created the appropriate conditions. In this, Russia should learn from China or from India. For example, China calls back its compatriots who left decades ago to teach at American universities. For them, they open laboratories and even departments, pay a good salary. India is also concerned about the return of talented Indians who studied and worked in the United States or Western Europe. In Russia, they talk a lot about the need to “return the brains,” but they do not do so much, but it’s time.
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