I Lin Sin
Biographic Data
| ID | 213988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Lin Sin |
| GIVEN NAMES | I Lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sin |
| SIGNATURE | SIN I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5344-0286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education: Academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia
The expansion of transnational education has diversified the destinations and mobility patterns of academic and teacher expatriates (i.e. education expatriates). Emerging literature have explored white Anglo-Western expatriates’ experiences of racism and racialization in non-white majority settings, but these are not usually analysed alongside that of less- and non-white expatriates. This article does so by drawing from qualitative interviews wit…
Academic and teacher expatriates: Mobilities, positionalities, and subjectivities
Foreign academics and international school teachers have received little attention in migration studies and human geography despite their rapidly growing numbers and diversity in the global education landscape. This paper explores the inconsistent terms and categorical definitions attached to them and puts forth the value of approaching them as migrants under the term "expatriate." It critically reviews an emerging body of work, led by human reso…
Degrees of value: Comparing the contextual complexities of UK transnational education in Malaysia and Hong Kong
This paper reveals the complex diversity that underpins ostensibly similar transnational education programmes (TNE), through a comparison of UK TNE in Malaysia and Hong Kong. It draws on data from two different yet cognate studies on the role of UK universities in delivering higher education in Asia. Some fine-grained and informative differences between the ways in which ‘value’ in TNE is constructed in different host contexts is revealed. The pa…
Ethnicity and (Dis)advantage: Exchanging Cultural Capital in UK International Education and Graduate Employment
This article investigates the under-researched role of ethnicity in the conversion of cultural capital linked to UK international education into life chance privileges and disadvantages. It reports findings from qualitative interviews with Malaysian international students and graduates who pursued their UK education in the UK and/or in Malaysia. It moves beyond a heavy focus on class in existing literature to delayer further complexities in disti…
Cultural capital and distinction: Aspirations of the ‘other’ foreign student
This article explores the perceived role of UK international education as foreign cultural capital, obtained outside the UK, in facilitating middle-class social mobility. Drawing on interviews with students in Malaysia, it extends Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to explain understandings of the rewards and limitations of undertaking UK education externally. I argue that foreign cultural capital has positive exchange value and an under-rese…
The aspiration for social distinction: Malaysian students in a British university
This article reports on research exploring the extent to which a group of Malaysian students in a British university expect to secure a competitive edge in the positional race for jobs, income and status. It explores the students’ understandings of a good job and success, as well as their perceived chances of fulfilling their aspirations. Qualitative, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 10 students. Interviewees assumed a direct link b…
Malaysian Students in Australia: The Pursuit of Upward Mobility
This article reports the findings of a predominantly qualitative study on the main factors that guide the initial migration of Malaysian students to Australia and their aspirations to stay on or leave the host country upon graduation. It also examines whether they deliberately seek qualifications that help them secure permanent residence. The students who do not intend to migrate permanently expressed a preference to remain for a while in Austral…
Cultural capital and distinction: Aspirations of the ‘other’ foreign student
This article explores the perceived role of UK international education as foreign cultural capital, obtained outside the UK, in facilitating middle-class social mobility. Drawing on interviews with students in Malaysia, it extends Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to explain understandings of the rewards and limitations of undertaking UK education externally. I argue that foreign cultural capital has positive exchange value and an under-rese…
Degrees of value: Comparing the contextual complexities of UK transnational education in Malaysia and Hong Kong
This paper reveals the complex diversity that underpins ostensibly similar transnational education programmes (TNE), through a comparison of UK TNE in Malaysia and Hong Kong. It draws on data from two different yet cognate studies on the role of UK universities in delivering higher education in Asia. Some fine-grained and informative differences between the ways in which ‘value’ in TNE is constructed in different host contexts is revealed. The pa…
Academic and teacher expatriates: Mobilities, positionalities, and subjectivities
Foreign academics and international school teachers have received little attention in migration studies and human geography despite their rapidly growing numbers and diversity in the global education landscape. This paper explores the inconsistent terms and categorical definitions attached to them and puts forth the value of approaching them as migrants under the term "expatriate." It critically reviews an emerging body of work, led by human reso…
The aspiration for social distinction: Malaysian students in a British university
This article reports on research exploring the extent to which a group of Malaysian students in a British university expect to secure a competitive edge in the positional race for jobs, income and status. It explores the students’ understandings of a good job and success, as well as their perceived chances of fulfilling their aspirations. Qualitative, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 10 students. Interviewees assumed a direct link b…
Malaysian Students in Australia: The Pursuit of Upward Mobility
This article reports the findings of a predominantly qualitative study on the main factors that guide the initial migration of Malaysian students to Australia and their aspirations to stay on or leave the host country upon graduation. It also examines whether they deliberately seek qualifications that help them secure permanent residence. The students who do not intend to migrate permanently expressed a preference to remain for a while in Austral…
Ethnicity and (Dis)advantage: Exchanging Cultural Capital in UK International Education and Graduate Employment
This article investigates the under-researched role of ethnicity in the conversion of cultural capital linked to UK international education into life chance privileges and disadvantages. It reports findings from qualitative interviews with Malaysian international students and graduates who pursued their UK education in the UK and/or in Malaysia. It moves beyond a heavy focus on class in existing literature to delayer further complexities in disti…
Malaysian Students in Australia: The Pursuit of Upward Mobility
This article reports the findings of a predominantly qualitative study on the main factors that guide the initial migration of Malaysian students to Australia and their aspirations to stay on or leave the host country upon graduation. It also examines whether they deliberately seek qualifications that help them secure permanent residence. The students who do not intend to migrate permanently expressed a preference to remain for a while in Austral…
The aspiration for social distinction: Malaysian students in a British university
This article reports on research exploring the extent to which a group of Malaysian students in a British university expect to secure a competitive edge in the positional race for jobs, income and status. It explores the students’ understandings of a good job and success, as well as their perceived chances of fulfilling their aspirations. Qualitative, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 10 students. Interviewees assumed a direct link b…
Cultural capital and distinction: Aspirations of the ‘other’ foreign student
This article explores the perceived role of UK international education as foreign cultural capital, obtained outside the UK, in facilitating middle-class social mobility. Drawing on interviews with students in Malaysia, it extends Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to explain understandings of the rewards and limitations of undertaking UK education externally. I argue that foreign cultural capital has positive exchange value and an under-rese…
Ethnicity and (Dis)advantage: Exchanging Cultural Capital in UK International Education and Graduate Employment
This article investigates the under-researched role of ethnicity in the conversion of cultural capital linked to UK international education into life chance privileges and disadvantages. It reports findings from qualitative interviews with Malaysian international students and graduates who pursued their UK education in the UK and/or in Malaysia. It moves beyond a heavy focus on class in existing literature to delayer further complexities in disti…
Degrees of value: Comparing the contextual complexities of UK transnational education in Malaysia and Hong Kong
This paper reveals the complex diversity that underpins ostensibly similar transnational education programmes (TNE), through a comparison of UK TNE in Malaysia and Hong Kong. It draws on data from two different yet cognate studies on the role of UK universities in delivering higher education in Asia. Some fine-grained and informative differences between the ways in which ‘value’ in TNE is constructed in different host contexts is revealed. The pa…
Academic and teacher expatriates: Mobilities, positionalities, and subjectivities
Foreign academics and international school teachers have received little attention in migration studies and human geography despite their rapidly growing numbers and diversity in the global education landscape. This paper explores the inconsistent terms and categorical definitions attached to them and puts forth the value of approaching them as migrants under the term "expatriate." It critically reviews an emerging body of work, led by human reso…
Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education: Academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia
The expansion of transnational education has diversified the destinations and mobility patterns of academic and teacher expatriates (i.e. education expatriates). Emerging literature have explored white Anglo-Western expatriates’ experiences of racism and racialization in non-white majority settings, but these are not usually analysed alongside that of less- and non-white expatriates. This article does so by drawing from qualitative interviews wit…
Sociology (7 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Higher education (4 works)