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International Mobility and Educational Desire: Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore
Peidong Yang
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Description for International Mobility and Educational Desire: Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore
Hardback. Series: Anthropological Studies of Education. Num Pages: 149 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 329.
This book examines the Singapore government's controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service bond . It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese foreign talent students' educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore society's concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.
This book examines the Singapore government's controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service bond . It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese foreign talent students' educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore society's concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Anthropological Studies of Education
Condition
New
Weight
329g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137591425
SKU
V9781137591425
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang is Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include education and migration in the China-Singapore contexts as well as Internet and media in contemporary China.
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