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Global student mobility in the Asia Pacific : mobility, migration, security and wellbeing of international students / edited by Peter Kell and Gillian Vogl.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Student mobility--Pacific Area.
- Student mobility.
- Transfer students--Pacific Area--Social conditions.
- Transfer students.
- Student mobility--Pacific Area--Case studies.
- Transfer students--Pacific Area--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over 2.7m students study in a country other than their own. Most of those students come from the Asia-Pacific region and undertake study in universities in the developed world. This trend is predicted to grow exponentially but features many dilemmas. In the post-September 11th global environment international students experience hostility and harassment as well as ambivalence about their value to the academy. Some live an uncertain life of poverty and alienation. Many also struggle to come...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; TABLE OF FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-58835-4
- 9786612588358
- 1-4438-2030-X
- OCLC:
- 649900624
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