Orientador: Eugenia Troncoso Leone / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T12:23:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Smith_MerleneMaud_M.pdf: 731154 bytes, checksum: b706862da958d2fc4c190e416a0fc2f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa foi realizada a partir de um interesse na tendência da migração internacional de trabalhadores, relacionada à Jamaica. Este artigo reforça o desafio critico que tal forma de migração representa para o Sistema Educacional Jamaicano. O aspecto mais importante do estudo focou na migração de professores, em particular da Jamaica, e qual impacto ocorreu no sistema educacional da Jamaica. Observa-se a natureza dessa tendência em particular envolvendo professores com experiência deixando seus empregos e indo trabalhar em outro local, a situação após a migração e as razões pelas quais os professores migram. Os fatores analisados apontam tanto para influências internas e nacionais quanto externas e internacionais. A literatura relacionada ao tema usualmente coleta dados por meio de entrevistas, e professores que são simultaneamente uma parte do movimento e experimentaram o movimento em algum nível participaram da pesquisa compartilhando informações e experiências A investigação feita para esta tese revela fatos que demonstram que a natureza deste tipo de migração de profissionais altamente qualificados, em especial professores, impactou negativamente o sistema educacional da Jamaica. Foi descoberto que, ao perder tais professores, as escolas tiveram muita dificuldade de manter seus objetivos educacionais. Devido à perda de professores experientes, o sistema educacional jamaicano encontrou problemas em oferecer educação de qualidade devido à dificuldade de substituir os professores que migraram. Deste modo, esse tipo de migração teve impacto negative na educação dos jamaicanos, e deixou o sistema ainda mais fraco do que anteriormente / Abstract: This research was done out of an interest in the trend of international labour migration as it relates to Jamaica in the West Indies. This paper highlights the critical challenge that this form of migration poses for the Jamaican education system. The most important aspect of the study focused on teacher migration in particular from Jamaica and what impact it has on the Jamaica education system. The issues looked at the nature of this particular trend involving trained, experienced teachers leaving off the job to go and work elsewhere, the situation has it is after they leave and reasons why they leave. The push and pull factors were analyzed which pointed to both national internal influences as well as international external influences. Literature related to the topic was used to collect data and teachers who are both currently a part of the trend and have experienced the trend in some way or another participated by sharing their views and information to assist with this research. The investigation done for this research revealed facts on the situation which showed that the nature of this type of migration of professionals and highly trained teachers has impacted negatively on Jamaica and its' education system. It was found that in loosing these teachers the schools were left struggling to keep up with their educational objectives. Because of the loss of a number of trained experienced teachers the Jamaican education system found itself with problems of providing the same quality education they did before the teachers left as most schools could not find equal replacements. Hence, this type of migration has impacted negatively on the education system in Jamaica and has left the system even weaker than it was before / Mestrado / Economia Social e do Trabalho / Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico