1. THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD ON SKILLED IMMIGRATION: THEORETICAL BASES 1.1. Three Generations of High Skilled Labor Migration Literature 1.2. What Does the Theory Say? 1.3. Effects of High-Skilled Labor Immigration on the Home Country 1.4. What Can Pave the Way for the Reverse Brain Drain? 2. THE DATA: SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS 2.1. Face to Face Interviews with Turkish Scientists and Scholars 2.2. Profiles of the Respondents: Descriptive Analysis of Turkish Scientists/Scholars Survey Data 3. THE MODEL AND ESTIMATION: RETURN INTENTIONS 3.1. Literature Review and Theoretical Explanatory Variables 3.2. Explanatory Variables Arising from Face to Face Interviews 3.3. Interaction Variables 3.4. Model Selection 3.5. Dependent Variables of the Estimated Models 3.6. Estimation Methodology 3.7. Estimation Results 4. ANALYSIS OF NON-TURKISH SCHOLARS INTENTIONS TO VISIT TURKEY AS VISITING SCHOLARS 4.1. Assessment of Data from Online Surveys and Interviews of Non-Turkish Scholars in MA 5. CONCLUSIONS