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This book is based on an ethnographic fieldwork amongst a group of Chinese international students in Norway who have converted to evangelical Christianity. It follows the ambitions and life expectations that drove them to seek education abroad, the social isolation they find there, and how participation in religious milieus helps them overcome this isolation. This book is in large part about how the students try to create opportunities and empower themselves. Their choices are shaped by the idealized image of the people they want to become, which is a modern, globetrotting cosmopolite. The book also covers their conversion, challenging existing scholarship by showing how this can be more dynamic and complex than the literature typically shows.The book is aimed at researchers and advanced students of migration, diversity and religious conversion.
