International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific Letters to Coronavirus

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheng, Yi'En

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2022.

Singapore Palgrave Macmillan US 2023

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Editor's Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

1 Introduction

International Students Displaced, Vulnerabilized, and Activated

Scope, Aims, and Contributions

Bridging International Student Voices and Analyses

Regional Focus on the Asia-Pacific

Theoretical Underpinnings

Organization of Book

Part 1: Regimes-Borders, Norms, and Divisions

Part 2: Experiences-Emotions, Velocity, and Habits

Part 3: Aspirations-Suspension and Freedom

References

Part I Regimes: Borders, Norms, and Divisions

2 Letters on Borders

A Letter to the Coronavirus: The Border that Connects and Divides

Invisibility and Immobility: International Students as Afterthoughts in the Pandemic

3 The New Borders of Covid-19: An International Student Perspective

Introduction

(Emerging) Borders of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Legislative Border Frameworks

Bordered Relationships

Borders in Learning

Borders, Inequality, and Precarities of the Pandemic

Conclusion

4 Letters on Norms

We Are Not Done Yet

Navigating Norms of Life and Study in the Time of COVID-19: A Queer Doctoral Student's Narrative

A Married Queer Couple Locked in Two Countries

A Doctoral Student's New Life Routine

Final Remarks

Education the New (Ab)Normal

Notes

5 Visible Norms: COVID-19 and the Challenge to Global Higher Education Practices

Norms of Educational Practices

Norms of Mobility

Norms of Expectations

The New Normal?

6 Letters on Divisions

Face-Changing COVID

The Missing 'Sense of Shared Calamity' Among the Youth

7 COVIDivides Within CORONAtionalism: International Student Experiences of Racial Othering and Nationalist Distancing

Division and Globalization

COVIDivides

Development and Class Divides

Ethnic and Cultural Divides

Education and Digital Divides

International Students as Intersections of Multi-Scalar Inequalities

Displacement: International Students as the "Racialised Other"

Nationalist Distancing: International Students as Their Own Nationals

Part II Experiences: Emotions, Velocity and Habits

8 Letters on Emotions

To Leave, or to Stay, That is a Question

Living with Real Uncertainty: A Wave of Emotions of a Final Year Ph.D. Student Amid COVID-19

Crown Trials

February 2020-First Hearing

April 2020-Second Hearing

July 2020-Recess

December 2020-Judgment

Oh COVID-19!: A New Era of International Education Marked by the Internet, Camera, Speaker, and Microphone

9 Navigating Desire, Despondency, Disconnectedness, and Disillusionment: International Students' Emotional Turmoil Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

Anchoring ISM Emotions: Educational Desire and Its Spatial-Temporal Disruption

Emotional Turmoil Unpacked

Educational Desire and Despondency

Familial and Social Disconnectedness

Self-Doubt and Disillusionment

Coping Strategies: Emotional Labor and Beyond

Concluding Thoughts

10 Letters on Velocity

Zoomin' Across the Pacific Ocean

Pause and Ponder: Retrograde Grading in Higher Education

Note

11 Learning on Pause? The Ambivalent and Conflicting Velocities of International Student Mobilities in Pandemic Times

Pausing to Reflect on Velocity

Contradictory Velocities of Higher Education

(Re)Zooming Study Across the Pacific

The Two-Body Problem

Re-Assessing Higher Education

Moving Forward

12 Letters on Habits

Thank You Letter to the Crowned Teacher

Adapt and Carry on: Understand the Changing of International Student Daily Habits Under the Pandemic

Reshaping My Life During the Pandemic: How I Have Built a Newborn Relationship with My "Family"

13 Pandemic Recalibration of Habits

Pandemic Recalibration of Habits Among International Students

Spatial Adjustments and Relocation of Social Time

Normalization of Digital Communicative Habits

Physical-Mental Well-Being and Agency

Part III Aspirations: Suspension and Freedom

14 Letters on Suspension

Planning to Unplan: A Reflection of Learning and Living in the Time of Coronavirus

Suspended There and Back Again: Ambivalent Meditations and Lifeways of the Ph.D. Fieldwork at Home

15 Temporal Suspension, Precarity, and Agency Among International Students During the COVID-19

Times, Temporalities, and ISM: Temporal Suspension, Precarity, and Agency

Suspended Times/Temporalities: Stillness, Waiting, and Uncertainty

Precarious Times/Temporalities: Vulnerability, Exclusion, and Instability

Temporal Agency

Immobility as a Strategy

Positive Waiting

16 Letters on Freedom

"You Guys Were OK Before the Pandemic?" Coping with Mental Health Disorders as an International Student in Singapore During COVID-19

"To Go or not to Go?": Freedom in Flux

17 "Freedom in Flux" and "Were You Guys OK Before the Pandemic?": A Conversation on International Students, Academic Mobilities, Higher Education, and Society at Large

Freedom in Flux

Artemio

Le-Ha

Were You Guys OK Before the Pandemic?

Final Considerations and Conclusion

Index

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ISBN:

9789811936753

9811936757

OCLC:

1355233680

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