Transnational Student-Migrants and the State [electronic resource] : The Education-Migration Nexus /
Robertson, Shanthi.author.
International students are often engaged not just in education, but in high stakes towards gaining permanent migration status. This book unpacks the consequences of this education-migration nexus, analyzing migration policies and providing a vivid picture of student-migrants' lived experiences.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Bringing a sociological lens to the student-migrant experience""; ""Student-migrant transnationality, the immigration regime and assemblages of power""; ""2 The Educationâ€?Migration Nexus: Global Flows""; ""The development of the educationâ€?migration nexus""; ""Study mothers, parachute children and wild geese: Distinctions and connections between 'education for immigration' and 'immigration for education'""
""Two steps: Points-based pathways from student to migrant in Australia, Canada and New Zealand""""Stepping stones: Varied pathways from student to worker in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany""; ""Emerging destinations: Intra-Asian education and migration""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 The Nexus and Its Discontents: An Australian Perspective""; ""The educationâ€?migration nexus as a project of neoliberal governance""; ""Transient students and desirable migrants: The inception of the nexus""; ""Vocational pathways: The nexus opens wide""
""Cash cows and back-door migrants: Student-migrants in the public imagination""""Student-migrant agency""; ""Government and institutional responses to the nexus' 'discontents'""; ""Conclusions""; ""4 Shaping the Student-Migrant Experience""; ""Staggered entrances, extended precarity and student-migrant subjectivities""; ""Student-migrant transnationalism""; ""Student-migrants and citizenship""; ""Conclusions""; ""5 Encountering the Residency Regime""; ""Gaining PR""; ""Perceiving and experiencing the regime""; ""The self, the social and the regime""; ""Conclusions""
""6 Acquiring and Practising Citizenship""""Student-migrants and citizenship policies in Australia""; ""Making decisions about citizenship""; ""Maintaining multiple belongings""; ""Blended desires: Symbolic and instrumental choices""; ""Not letting go: Relinquishing original citizenships""; ""Seeking security: Precarity and cultures of anxiety""; ""Political participation: Ambivalence and engagement""; ""Seeking mobility: Global hierarchies of citizenship and imagining return""; ""Practising citizenship: Student-migrants as activist citizens""
""Student-migrant activism and legitimizing discourses""""Conclusions""; ""7 Negotiating Border-Crossing Lives""; ""Technologies of transnational connection: Mediated personal communication as transnational practice""; ""Virtual mobility through the mass media""; ""Conclusions""; ""8 Conclusion: Precarious Transnationals and the Settler Nation""; ""Transnational student-migrants and the state""; ""The future of the educationâ€?migration nexus in Australia""; ""Temporary migration and the demise of the settler nation""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
International students are often engaged not just in education, but in high stakes towards gaining permanent migration status. This book unpacks the consequences of this education-migration nexus, analyzing migration policies and providing a vivid picture of student-migrants' lived experiences.
Higher education.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Social policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Education and state.
Higher Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Social Policy.
Migration.
Education Policy.