International Mobility and Educational Desire Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore /
This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” students’ educational and cross-cultural experienc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | Anthropological Studies of Education
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Summary: | This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” students’ educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore society’s concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective. |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 136 p. 2 illus. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781137591432 |
