Transnational Students and Mobility Lived Experiences of Migration [Hardcover]

As globalisation deepens, student mobility and migration has not only impacted economy and institutions, it has also infused human desires, imaginaries, experiences and subjectivities. In Transnational Students and Mobility, Hannah Soong portrays the vexed nexus of education and migration as a site of multiple tensions and existence and examines how the notion of imagined mobility through education-migration nexus transforms the social value of international education and transnational mobility.

Part One: Transnational Student-Migrant Nexus and Mobility  1. Introduction  2. Transnational Student-Migrant Nexus and Mobility  Part Two: Understanding the Mode of Consciousness of a Transnational Individual  3. Transnational Mobility as Mode of Consciousness of the West  4. Understanding the Lived Experiences of Intercultural Adjustment and Identity Change  Part Three: Lived Episodes and Interpretations  5. Fitting- In: Intercultural adjustment process through teaching practicum experiences  6. Looking Out: The pains and gains of mobility  7. Being-In-Flux: Imaginations of nostalgia and fantasy Conclusion: Hermeneutic reflections on the complexities of student mobility  References  Appendices Appendix 1: Timeline of interviews for participants in phase  Appendix 2: Timeline of interviews for participants in phase 2  Appendix 3: An Example of Data Analysis for Meaning  Appendix 4: Specialised Subjects Student-Migrants Were Tasked to Teach  Appendix 5: Profile of Student-Migrants Community Engagement/Part-Time Work Activities

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