On Sep 28, 2024, an international workshop on “The International Mobility of the Talent and Wealthy” organized by the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (Fudan IAS) and the Editorial Board of Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences was held in Fudan University. More than twenty scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria, Australia, India, etc. attended the workshop.
Prof. Sujian Guo, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Fudan IAS and Editor-in-Chief of Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (FDHS), delivered a speech at the beginning of the conference. Prof. Guo warmly welcomed all the scholars attending the conference, and introduced the background of the topic of “The International Mobility of the Talent and Wealthy”, that is, globalization has greatly facilitated the international mobility of talent and wealthy. Against this background, what are the driving forces behind international flows of it? Is there a pattern in the long run? Why have some countries been more successful than others in attracting talent and investment? What are the differences in the policies and procedures used by countries to achieve this goal? What lessons can we learn from successful or unsuccessful practices? Questions such as these deserve in-depth reflection and research.
The first session of the conference “The Mobility of Talent and Wealth in an Unequal World” then started. Assoc. Prof. Kristin Surak from London School of Economics chaired this session. Dr. Andres Solimano from University of Oxford made a presentation entitled The International Mobility of the Wealthy and the Circulation of Talent: An Overview. Prof. Hal Salzman from Rutgers University talked on “From Both Sides Now”: The Asymmetries of Global Talent Migration and National Science Technology Policies. Prof. Anthony P. D’Costa from University of Alabama talked on Structures of Inequality and Asian Mobility of the Wealthy and Talent.
The second session “The Hierarchy of Passport” was chaired by Prof. Jean-Marc Coicaud, Distinguished Professor of Law and Global Affairs at Rutgers University and Distinguished Chair Professor at Fudan IAS. Assoc. Prof. Kristin Surak from London School of Economics delivered a speech on The Global Market in Golden Passports. Prof. Dimitry Kochenov from Central European University talked on Early Modern Struggles Repeated? The Dignity of Wealth in the World of Passport Apartheid.
Prof. Anthony P. D’Costa from University of Alabama chaired the third session “Citizenship and Statehood in a Post-Westphalian Era”. Prof. Daniel Schlagwein from University of Sydney made a presentation entitled Digital Nomadism and Its Implications for Nation-States, Organizations, and Local Communities. Dr. Sarah Ganty from Yale University talked on The Long Hand of the EU Recolonizing Citizenship: The Example of Citizenship by Investment Programs in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Assoc. Prof. Bingdao Zheng from School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University talked on Migration, “Hukou” Status, and Political Alienation in China’s Grassroot Elections.
Prof. Hal Salzman from Rutgers University chaired the fourth session “Retrospective and Prospective of Talent and Wealth Mobility”. Prof. Jean-Marc Coicaud, Distinguished Professor of Law and Global Affairs at Rutgers University and Distinguished Chair Professor at Fudan IAS talked on Students’ Global Mobility and the Geopolitics of Knowledge. Prof. Vesselin Popovski from Jindal Global Law School made a presentation on High Net Worth Migrants.
After the four sessions, Prof. Sujian Guo introduced the co-sponsored journal FDHS, which has a Cite Score of 3.9 in 2023 and is ranked as Q1. In the end, Prof. Guo thanked all the scholars again for taking time to attend, and looked forward to the papers reported by the scholars to be published by FDHS in the form of a special issue after the review. The conference was concluded with a round of applause.
