Intellectual Migration as a Statistical Research Object

The intensification of migration processes in Ukraine, as well around the world, results from the processes of world space globalization. Characteristic features of international migration are a steady increase of its scope involving the population of practically all countries throughout the globe into the international circulation, and the rapid growth of the intellectual migration share in such circulation. The research on various components of migration processes has been presented in both domestic and foreign research scientific literature. Although science has accumulated considerable knowledge of the migration issues, it still has a rough general theoretical and methodological concept of migration processes analysis, there is no in depth statistical analysis of labor migration processes, including insufficient focus on the research on qualified migrant labor potential. The article examines the causes and effects of intellectual migration, defines the main trends of qualified labor migration, outlines the main challenges in the field of intellectual migration and