The term brain waste describes the situation of immigrants who were skilled professionals in their home countries but have been forced to take unskilled jobs in their new country.
Brain waste(人才浪费)指在本国身为受过训练的遥人员在移遥遥从事非技术遥工作的情形。
Most of these immigrants wind up underemployed because of barriers like language, lack of access to job networks, or credentialing requirements that are different from those in other countries.
这些遥大部分都因为语言障碍、缺少就业关系网或者资质要求与其他遥不同等原因而遥低就。
For immigrants, it means bringing home less money than they have the potential to earn. For employers, it means fewer skilled applicants in their hiring pools.
If the labour market cannot absorb the migrants at the level of their qualifications, the phenomenon changes its nature: brain drain from the sending countries becomes 'brain waste' for the migrants.