Overview
- Analyses the interrelationships between international students’ connectedness and their identity development from transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives
- Clarifies and discusses the factors that influence international student’ on- and off-line connectedness in transnational mobility
- Examines whether, and in what ways, international students’ digital and physical relationships with people and places have changed due to their mobility experience
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (CSTE, volume 6)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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International Student Connectedness/Disconnectedness in the Host Country
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International Student and Returnee Connectedness/Disconnectedness with the Home Country
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Connectedness/Disconnectedness and Identity Development
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Student-Turned Migrants and Connectedness/Disconnectedness
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About this book
This book focuses on the interrelationship between international student connectedness and identity from transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives. It addresses the core issues surrounding international students’ physical and virtual connectedness to people, places and communities as well as the conditions that shape their transnational connectedness and identity formation. Further, it analyses the nature, diversity and complexity of international student connectedness and identity development across different national, social and cultural boundaries.
Reviews
“International students inhabit a complex space in which transnational mobilities and connectivities define the cultural dynamics of their experiences, as well as their sense of identity –their expectations and aspirations. This book brings together a set of most perceptive and thoughtful papers, written by scholars both emerging and established, which break new ground in how we might understand the ways in which international students work within and across national borders, traditions and politics.” (Fazal Rizvi, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Catherine Gomes is a senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne and recently completed an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award) fellowship. Her work covers migration, transnationalism and diasporas, particularly transient migration in Australia and Singapore with special interest in international students, their well-being, their social networks and their media and communication use. Catherine is founding editor of Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Intellect Books) and leader of the RMIT Migration and Digital Media Research Lab at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). Her recent books include Multiculturalism through the Lens: A Guide to Ethnic and Migrant Anxieties in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2015), The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media (Anthem Press, 2016) and Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Catherine has also written on identity, gender, ethnicity and race in Chinese cinemas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Student Connectedness and Identity
Book Subtitle: Transnational Perspectives
Editors: Ly Thi Tran, Catherine Gomes
Series Title: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2601-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2599-0Published: 01 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9664-8Published: 11 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2601-0Published: 23 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2345-7708
Series E-ISSN: 2345-7716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 294
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Psychology