Full Description
People move out to move up. As in the case with other migrant groups, the mobility experienced by international students is a form of social mobility, and one that requires access from a host state. But there are multiple institutions with which students interact and that influence the processes of social mobility. Outward and Upward Mobilities investigates the connection between student and institution.
This edited collection features work by key scholars in the field and considers international students across Canada regardless of legal status. Exploring how international students and their families fare in local ethnic communities, educational and professional institutions, and the labour market, this volume demonstrates the need to ask more critical questions about the short- and long-term effects of temporary legal status; how student and family experiences differ by education level and region of settlement, the barriers to and facilitators of adaptation and integration, and ultimately, to what extent individual, familial, institutional, and state goals function in harmony and in discord.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Education Migration, Social Mobility, and Structuring Institutions
Ann H. Kim and Min-Jung Kwak
Part I: International Students in the Canadian Context
2. "International students are... golden": Canada's Changing Policy Contexts, Approaches, and National Peculiarities in Attracting International Students as Future Immigrants
Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Amira El Masri
3. Explaining International Student Mobility to Canada: A Review
Ann H. Kim and Gunjan Sondhi
4. Barriers to Knowledge on International Students and a Potential Opportunity
Ann H. Kim, Reem Attieh, and Timothy Owen
Part II: Integration and Adjustment in Educational Institutions
5. The International Undergraduate Experience: A Developmental Psychological Study
Maxine Gallander Wintre, Stella Dentakos, Saeid Chavoshi, Abirami R. Kandasamy, and Lorna Wright
6. Legal Status and School Experiences for Families with Young Students
Ann H. Kim, Min-Jung Kwak, Wansoo Park, Eunjung Lee, and Sung Hyun Yun
Part III: Local Considerations: Ethnic Communities and Families
7. Adapting to China's Students at the Gateway: Stories of Chinese Community Associations and Their New Student Members
Jean Michel Montsion
8. 'Settlers' Meeting the 'Settled': International Students Encountering the South Asian 'Diaspora' in Ontario, Canada
Gunjan Sondhi
9. Global Restructuring, Gender, and Education Migration: Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada
Guida C. Man and Elena Chou
10. 'A Typical Girogi Family Experience?' The Transnational Migration and Heterogeneous Identity Formation of Girogi Families in Toronto, Canada
Min-Jung Kwak, Wansoo Park, Eunjung Lee, Sangyoo Lee, and Jeong-Eui Lee
Part IV: The Post-Student Experience
11. Student Transitions: Earnings of Former International Students in Canada's Labour Market
Yuqian Lu and Feng Hou
12. Bumpy Roads: Tracing Pathways into Practice for International Students in Nursing
Margaret Walton-Roberts and Jenna Hennebry
Afterword: A Multi-Level Perspective on Education Migration
Min-Jung Kwak and Ann H. Kim
