Transnational Student-Migrants and the State : The Education-Migration Nexus / by Shanthi Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Shanthi.

Series:

Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, 2662-2610

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Educational sociology.

Social policy.

Emigration and immigration.

Education and state.

Higher Education.

Sociology of Education.

Social Policy.

Human Migration.

Education Policy.

Local Subjects:

Higher Education.

Sociology of Education.

Social Policy.

Human Migration.

Education Policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""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 Education�Migration Nexus: Global Flows""; ""The development of the education�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 education�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 education�migration nexus in Australia""; ""Temporary migration and the demise of the settler nation""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349443277

1349443271

9781137267085

1137267089

OCLC:

842259729