TITLE

Why don't scientists have the same visa exemptions as footballers, ask Nobel winners

AUTHOR(S)

O'Dowd, Adrian

PUB. DATE

October 2010

SOURCE

BMJ: British Medical Journal (Overseas & Retired Doctors Edition;10/16/2010, Vol. 341 Issue 7777, p797

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

This article deals with the opposition of a group of Nobel prize winning academics to a plan by the British government to restrict the number of migrants coming to the country from outside the European Union (EU). INSET: How immigration to UK works for skilled workers.

ACCESSION #

54862758

Tags: EMIGRATION & immigration -- Government policy;  OPPOSITION (Political science)

 

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