Transnational Academic Mobility to Japan : Capital, Habitus, Agency and Social Network Embeddedness / by Yifeng Hong, Hugo Horta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hong, Yifeng., Author.

Horta, Hugo, Author.

Series:

Knowledge Studies in Higher Education, 2566-8315 ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Educational sociology.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Education and state.

Maturation (Psychology).

Higher Education.

Sociology of Education.

Sociology of Migration.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Personal Development.

Local Subjects:

Higher Education.

Sociology of Education.

Sociology of Migration.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Personal Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 167 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book addresses agency and habitus development of migrant academics in Japan and reveals the complexity of international academic mobility in East Asian contexts. It addresses differentiated transnational academic mobility routes and route-confined capitals and dispositions, the effect of stratified social networks and network embeddedness on international academic mobility, and the effect of unequal globalization and the asymmetrical internationalization of international academic mobility. The book highlights the roles of transnationally stretched social network development and network embeddedness along life trajectories, locating them as critical infrastructures of mobilities and identifying an array of individual social network building and maintenance strategies and principles. It illustrates how familial, educational, academic and social networks across borders facilitate and channel flows of capitals and resources vital for academic performance and upward academic mobility of migrated academics. It draws on a range of theoretical frameworks of Bourdieusian theory of sociology, transnationalism and qualitative social network analysis. The research is based on 26 case studies of migrant scholars in Japan, using narrative inquiry and qualitative social network analysis. The work provides multiple implications for practitioners, policy makers and researchers who seek answers to the sustainability of the internationalization of higher education in Asia Pacific and emerging higher education hubs.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1

Chapter 1, Inequalities in Globalization and Immigration, and the Unique Geopolitical Position of Japan

Chapter 2, Asymmetrical Internationalization of Higher Education

Chapter 3, Transnational Academic Mobility

Part 2

Chapter 3, Three Distinctive Mobility Routes

Chapter 4, Not All Tenure Are Equal

Chapter 5.Cosmopolitan Citizenship as Initial Transnational Mobility Agency

Chapter 6. Multiple Social Network Embeddedness for Transnational Academic Mobility

Part 3

Chapter 6. Rethinking International Academic Mobility: Social Networks, Habitus, Agency and an Analytical Framework

Backmatter.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-031-85676-7

OCLC:

1515075672