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International Mobility and Educational Desire: Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore (2016)

Contributor(s): Yang, Peidong (Author)

ISBN: 9781137591425

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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Pub Date: July 4, 2016

Dewey: 370

LCCN: 2016939234

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.38" H x 8.27" L x 5.83" W ( 0.74 lbs) 136 pages

Series: Anthropological Studies of Education

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Description: 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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