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

Yang, Peidong

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-07-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137591425

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59143-2

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 136.0