Anv.10 American Dream?

For many of these émigrés, the decision to relocate has confounded — and even angered — their
immigrant parents.

In interviews, many of these Americans said they did not know how long they would live
abroad; some said it was possible that they would remain expatriates for many years, if not for
the rest of their lives.

In growing numbers, experts say, highly educated children of immigrants to the United States
are uprooting themselves and moving to their ancestral countries.

“We’ve gone way beyond anecdotal evidence,” said Edward J. W. Park, director of the Asian
Pacific American Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

They say young entrepreneurs and highly educated professionals sow
American knowledge and skills abroad.

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instructor and choreographer and has acted in television commercials and a Bollywood film.

But this new wave
underscores the evolving nature of global migration, and the challenges to American economic
supremacy and competitiveness.

Many of these Americans have been able to leverage family networks, language skills and
cultural knowledge gleaned from growing up in immigrant households.

Some scholars and business leaders contend that this emigration does not necessarily bode ill
for the United States.

They are embracing
homelands that their parents once spurned but that are now economic powers.

They are embracing
homelands that their parents once spurned but that are now economic powers.

“It’s governments who
enact strategic policies to facilitate this.”

“The energy here is phenomenal,” Mr. Chin said.

Her father has reluctantly accepted her approach.

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they had been pushed by the dismal hiring climate in the United States or pulled by prospects
abroad.