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ID28570
NAMEP Yang
GIVEN NAMESP
FAMILY NAMEYang
SIGNATUREYANG P
AFFILIATIONSNanyang Technological University
ORCID0000-0003-0669-6566
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS160
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • Effects of caption and difficulty level on motor skill learning: An eye-tracking study in instructional videos

    Fang Qi, Yue Hu et al.•ARTICLE•Interactive Learning Environments•2026

    The present study aimed to investigate how caption type (full, keyword, or no) and difficulty level (high or low) affect motor skill learning with instructional videos. One hundred and fifty undergraduate students were randomly and equally assigned to six conditions (3 caption types × 2 difficulty levels). Each participant watched a short instructional video on football kicking. A knowledge test and cognitive load regarding this video were given …

  • Mobilising parental capital for integration: New immigrant parents’ strategies to facilitate 1.5- and second-generation immigrant children’s academic and socio-cultural integration in Singapore

    Open Access•P Yang, Xintong Chen•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Education Review•2025

  • State responsibility and non-state actors in maritime law enforcement: A comparative analysis concerning the South China Sea

    Open Access•P Yang, Haoran Cui•ARTICLE•Marine Policy•2025

  • Reluctant 'Tiger' Parents? The (Inconsistent) Parenting Discourse of Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Parents in Singapore

    P Yang, Xintong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    This study draws from in-depth interviews with 31 middle-class Chinese immigrant parents in Singapore to explore their discourse concerning their children’s education and future. The findings reveal that these parents consciously distance themselves from the stereotypical Chinese ‘tiger’ parents who exercise strict control over their children and have high expectations for material and status attainment. Instead, they claim to have broadened defi…

  • Transnational class anxieties and intensive parenting: Middle-class Chinese immigrant parents 'doing security' in Singapore

    Wei Yang, P Yang et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    This paper explores middle-class Chinese immigrant parents' childrearing aspirations and strategies in Singapore. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with 31 professional middle-class immigrant parents from China in 2022, it examines how these parents intensify their childrearing as a strategy not only to cope with the structural insecurities they face in the host country but also to mitigate their perceived uncertainties evoked by the large…

  • Negotiating identities, values, and teaching practices: Five immigrant teachers in Singapore schools as potential agents of educational diversity

    Open Access•P Yang, Lee Tat Chow•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Education Review•2024

  • ‘Kind of Business, You Know?’ The Commercialisation of Inclusion through Non-formal Arts Learning

    Open Access•P Yang, N Rowe•ARTICLE•Knowledge Cultures•2024

    As national and global policies emphasise the significance of social inclusion, a sense of belonging has increasingly become economically rationalised. Social exclusion is posed as an economic risk, and so neoliberal systems have commercialised and commodified social inclusion, promoting a transactional and privatised approach to ‘belonging’. This issue is particularly significant in culturally diversifying urban contexts, as a desire to develop …

  • How textual and picture cues influence motor skill learning in short instructional videos: Evidence from eye-tracking experiments

    Yue Hu, Fang Qi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Psychology in Africa•2024

  • Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: Policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students' experiences in Singapore and the UK

    Yi’en Cheng, Yi''En Cheng et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 43

    This paper is concerned with the nexus between migration governance and higher education. While the intersections between these two societal/policy systems have received attention in existing literature, much has changed as a result of the recent COVID-19 crisis. The global pandemic has introduced spatial and temporal disjuncture that significantly impact how international students navigate these systems. We address this issue through the lens of…

  • Virtual student mobility on Zoom: Digital Platforms and Differentiated Experiences of International Education and (Im)mobilities in a Time of Pandemic

    Open Access•Yi''En Cheng, B S A Yeoh et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 42

    Against the backdrop of growing prevalence of digital platforms in higher education, strong considerations are being made for the potential of virtual student mobility in the aftermath of the pandemic. While extant literature on digital education platforms has shed light on the relationships between platform interfaces and wider political economies, less is known about students’ experiences of virtually mediated mobility and immobility. This arti…

  • Rethinking international student mobility through the lens of “crisis” at a juncture of pandemic and global uncertainties

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Journal of Education•2022

    International student mobility (ISM), defined as the movement of students to pursue tertiary education outside their countries of citizenship, has conventionally been understood in terms of micro social actors’ behaviours of cultural capital accumulation and macro-level institutional processes following the logics of neoliberal globalization and knowledge economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly and severely impacted ISM, plunging the latter i…

  • Allying and aligning: Teachers’ extra-curricular work, meritocracy and state-sponsored scholarships in Singapore

    Aloysius Foo, P Yang•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2022•References: 32

    Research in education has long noted teachers’ role in assisting social and ideological reproduction. Separately, scholarship has also investigated the use of extra-curricular activities in equipping disadvantaged students with social and cultural capital, to embark on social mobility. Positioned at the intersection of these two apparently disparate strands, this paper presents a case in which teachers’ extra-curricular work is seen to simultaneo…

  • Differentiated inclusion, muted diversification: Immigrant teachers' settlement and professional experiences in Singapore as a case of 'middling' migrants' integration

    P Yang•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 10•References: 30

    Existing migration research has framed ‘middling migrants’ mainly in terms of transnational fluidity and flexibility, thus overlooking the issue of integration. This article adds to a burgeoning scholarship advocating a more locally embedded perspective (e.g. Meier, 2015b. Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities, and Inequalities. New York and London: Routledge) by investigating the integration of immigrant teachers workin…

  • China in the global field of international student mobility: An analysis of economic, human and symbolic capitals

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Compare A Journal of Comparative…•2020•Cited by: 32•References: 17

    The global landscape of higher education is an uneven field where players like nation-states are placed in hierarchical and centre-periphery relations. This paper focuses on the global field of international student mobility (ISM) and investigates China’s place in the field using an analytical framework consisting of three key categories of ‘capital’: economic, human, and symbolic. Drawing on existing scholarship and author’s first-hand ethnograp…

  • Desiring Tesol and international education

    Lee Tat Chow, P Yang•ARTICLE•International Studies in…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In recent years, scholarship on inter/transnational education and educational mobility has witnessed a rising interest in the notion of ‘desire’ (e.g. Collins, Sidhu, Lewis, & Yeoh, 2014; Fong, 201

  • "Positive Energy": Hegemonic Intervention and Online Media Discourse in China's Xi Jinping Era

    P Yang, Lijun Tang•ARTICLE•China An International Journal•2018

    Scholarship to date agrees that the internet has weakened the Chinese Party-state’s ideological and discursive hegemony over society. This article documents a recent intervention into public discourse exercised by the Chinese state through appropriating and promoting a popular online catchphrase-“positive energy” (zheng nengliang). Analysing the “positive energy” phenomena using Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of hegemony and discourse, the authors ar…

  • Understanding Youth Educational Mobilities in Asia: A Comparison of Chinese 'Foreign Talent' Students in Singapore and Indian MBBS Students in China

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 46

    While scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) has proliferated in recent times, understanding of educational mobilities within the Asian region remains limited, empirically and theoretically. This paper contributes to this nascent intra-Asian ISM perspective through offering a comparative overview of two contemporary empirical cases: Chinese students recruited as ‘foreign talent’ by Singapore and Indian students headed to China to stu…

  • Desiring 'foreign talent: Lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore

    P Yang•ARTICLE•New Community•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 40

    In recent years, the Singapore government’s pro-immigration policy – specifically, its recruitment of so-called foreign talent – has caused a palpable rise in anti-immigrant sentiments and discourses amongst natives of the city-state. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, a perspective so far marginal in migration research, this article offers a provocative reading of Singapore’s desire for foreign talent and the local society’s reception of these …

  • Compromise and complicity in international student mobility: The ethnographic case of Indian medical students at a Chinese university

    Open Access•P Yang•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2018•Cited by: 28•References: 30

    Existing scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) often draws on Bourdieu to interpret such mobility as a strategy of capital conversion used by privileged classes to reproduce their social advantage. This perspective stems from and also reinforces a rationalistic interpretation of student mobility. A shift of focus to interAsian educational mobilities involving non-elite individuals and institutions can reveal logics of behavior and o…

  • Understanding ‘integration: Chinese ‘foreign talent’ students in Singapore talking about rongru

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Transitions Journal of Transient…•2017•Cited by: 3

    Studying abroad is an increasingly prevalent form of transient migration. How do international students understand their relationship with the host society and host nationals? Based on in-depth interview data, this article investigates the ways in which international students from China at a Singaporean university understand the idea of ‘integration’ (or rongru in Chinese). It is found that these Chinese students tend to define ‘integration’ in t…

  • Why Transitions

    Catherine Gomes, Susan Leong et al.•ARTICLE•Transitions Journal of Transient…•2017•Cited by: 2

  • Workers’ rights defence on China's internet: An analysis of actors

    Lijun Tang, Desai Shan et al.•ARTICLE•Information Communication & Society•2016

    The discourse of ‘rights defence’ (weiquan), referring to the grassroots’ struggle for legal redress after their lawful interests are encroached upon, has gained increasing popularity in China in the last two decades. Given the ubiquity of the Internet nowadays, rights defence activities also take place online; in a small number of cases, they develop into a form of online activism. But what determines or contributes to the online visibility of s…

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

    Open Access•P Yang•BOOK•International Mobility and…•2016

    This book examines the Singapore governmentâ s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service â bondâ . It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese â foreign talentâ studentsâ educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents cont…

  • Figuring out the university and the student in neoliberal times: Reviews of Learning under neoliberalism (Hyatt, Shear and Wright 2015) and Figuration work (Nielsen 2015)

    Open Access•P Yang•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•2016

    The university today is in flux, and so is the nature of learning and what it means to be a university student. While terms like ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘globalisation’ have been spoken of so frequently these days – both in academic and non-academic contexts – that they border on becoming hollow clichés, not engaging with these concepts and their implications for higher education transformations worldwide would not only represent a loss of a critical…

  • Diaosi as infrapolitics: Scatological tropes, identity-making and cultural intimacy on China’s Internet

    Open Access•P Yang, Lijun Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2015•Cited by: 17•References: 31

    This article examines a recent bizarre phenomenon on China’s Internet – the enormous popularity of a scatological Chinese neologism called diaosi, which literally translates as ‘dick string’. Seeing the diaosi phenomenon as a case of ‘infrapolitics’, a space of nuanced discursive practices mediating overt online politics and benign online entertainment, we analyse the ways in which an infrapolitical practice such as the diaosi phenomenon fuses po…

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  • China in the global field of international student mobility: An analysis of economic, human and symbolic capitals

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Compare A Journal of Comparative…•2020•Cited by: 32•References: 17

    The global landscape of higher education is an uneven field where players like nation-states are placed in hierarchical and centre-periphery relations. This paper focuses on the global field of international student mobility (ISM) and investigates China’s place in the field using an analytical framework consisting of three key categories of ‘capital’: economic, human, and symbolic. Drawing on existing scholarship and author’s first-hand ethnograp…

  • Compromise and complicity in international student mobility: The ethnographic case of Indian medical students at a Chinese university

    Open Access•P Yang•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2018•Cited by: 28•References: 30

    Existing scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) often draws on Bourdieu to interpret such mobility as a strategy of capital conversion used by privileged classes to reproduce their social advantage. This perspective stems from and also reinforces a rationalistic interpretation of student mobility. A shift of focus to interAsian educational mobilities involving non-elite individuals and institutions can reveal logics of behavior and o…

  • Diaosi as infrapolitics: Scatological tropes, identity-making and cultural intimacy on China’s Internet

    Open Access•P Yang, Lijun Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2015•Cited by: 17•References: 31

    This article examines a recent bizarre phenomenon on China’s Internet – the enormous popularity of a scatological Chinese neologism called diaosi, which literally translates as ‘dick string’. Seeing the diaosi phenomenon as a case of ‘infrapolitics’, a space of nuanced discursive practices mediating overt online politics and benign online entertainment, we analyse the ways in which an infrapolitical practice such as the diaosi phenomenon fuses po…

  • Desiring 'foreign talent: Lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore

    P Yang•ARTICLE•New Community•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 40

    In recent years, the Singapore government’s pro-immigration policy – specifically, its recruitment of so-called foreign talent – has caused a palpable rise in anti-immigrant sentiments and discourses amongst natives of the city-state. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, a perspective so far marginal in migration research, this article offers a provocative reading of Singapore’s desire for foreign talent and the local society’s reception of these …

  • Symbolic power and the internet: The power of a ‘horse’

    Open Access•Lijun Tang, Lijun Tang Lijun Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2011•Cited by: 14•References: 29

    It is a common perception that as long as people have the resources to access the internet, they are in a position to make their voice heard. In reality, however, it is obvious that the vast majority of internet users are not really able to make themselves ‘visible’ and that their concerns receive little attention. Thus, it is more accurate to suggest that the internet offers ordinary people the potential of this power. Under what conditions can …

  • Authenticity” and “Foreign Talent” in Singapore: The Relative and Negative Logic of National Identity

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues in…•2014•Cited by: 13•References: 12

    SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…

  • Differentiated inclusion, muted diversification: Immigrant teachers' settlement and professional experiences in Singapore as a case of 'middling' migrants' integration

    P Yang•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 10•References: 30

    Existing migration research has framed ‘middling migrants’ mainly in terms of transnational fluidity and flexibility, thus overlooking the issue of integration. This article adds to a burgeoning scholarship advocating a more locally embedded perspective (e.g. Meier, 2015b. Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities, and Inequalities. New York and London: Routledge) by investigating the integration of immigrant teachers workin…

  • Understanding Youth Educational Mobilities in Asia: A Comparison of Chinese 'Foreign Talent' Students in Singapore and Indian MBBS Students in China

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 46

    While scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) has proliferated in recent times, understanding of educational mobilities within the Asian region remains limited, empirically and theoretically. This paper contributes to this nascent intra-Asian ISM perspective through offering a comparative overview of two contemporary empirical cases: Chinese students recruited as ‘foreign talent’ by Singapore and Indian students headed to China to stu…

  • Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: Policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students' experiences in Singapore and the UK

    Yi’en Cheng, Yi''En Cheng et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 43

    This paper is concerned with the nexus between migration governance and higher education. While the intersections between these two societal/policy systems have received attention in existing literature, much has changed as a result of the recent COVID-19 crisis. The global pandemic has introduced spatial and temporal disjuncture that significantly impact how international students navigate these systems. We address this issue through the lens of…

  • Virtual student mobility on Zoom: Digital Platforms and Differentiated Experiences of International Education and (Im)mobilities in a Time of Pandemic

    Open Access•Yi''En Cheng, B S A Yeoh et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 42

    Against the backdrop of growing prevalence of digital platforms in higher education, strong considerations are being made for the potential of virtual student mobility in the aftermath of the pandemic. While extant literature on digital education platforms has shed light on the relationships between platform interfaces and wider political economies, less is known about students’ experiences of virtually mediated mobility and immobility. This arti…

  • A Phenomenology of being “Very China”

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Asian journal of social science•2014•Cited by: 5

    This paper offers an ethnographic account of the self-formation experiences of Mainland Chinese undergraduate students as “foreign talents” in a Singaporean university. While extant scholarship often points out that international educational sojourn has transformative effects on the student-sojourners, detailed empirical examination of how such transformations take place is still lacking; this paper furnishes a microscopic case study in this vein…

  • Understanding ‘integration: Chinese ‘foreign talent’ students in Singapore talking about rongru

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Transitions Journal of Transient…•2017•Cited by: 3

    Studying abroad is an increasingly prevalent form of transient migration. How do international students understand their relationship with the host society and host nationals? Based on in-depth interview data, this article investigates the ways in which international students from China at a Singaporean university understand the idea of ‘integration’ (or rongru in Chinese). It is found that these Chinese students tend to define ‘integration’ in t…

  • Transnational class anxieties and intensive parenting: Middle-class Chinese immigrant parents 'doing security' in Singapore

    Wei Yang, P Yang et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    This paper explores middle-class Chinese immigrant parents' childrearing aspirations and strategies in Singapore. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with 31 professional middle-class immigrant parents from China in 2022, it examines how these parents intensify their childrearing as a strategy not only to cope with the structural insecurities they face in the host country but also to mitigate their perceived uncertainties evoked by the large…

  • Why Transitions

    Catherine Gomes, Susan Leong et al.•ARTICLE•Transitions Journal of Transient…•2017•Cited by: 2

  • Reluctant 'Tiger' Parents? The (Inconsistent) Parenting Discourse of Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Parents in Singapore

    P Yang, Xintong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    This study draws from in-depth interviews with 31 middle-class Chinese immigrant parents in Singapore to explore their discourse concerning their children’s education and future. The findings reveal that these parents consciously distance themselves from the stereotypical Chinese ‘tiger’ parents who exercise strict control over their children and have high expectations for material and status attainment. Instead, they claim to have broadened defi…

  • Desiring Tesol and international education

    Lee Tat Chow, P Yang•ARTICLE•International Studies in…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In recent years, scholarship on inter/transnational education and educational mobility has witnessed a rising interest in the notion of ‘desire’ (e.g. Collins, Sidhu, Lewis, & Yeoh, 2014; Fong, 201

  • Symbolic power and the internet: The power of a ‘horse’

    Open Access•Lijun Tang, Lijun Tang Lijun Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2011•Cited by: 14•References: 29

    It is a common perception that as long as people have the resources to access the internet, they are in a position to make their voice heard. In reality, however, it is obvious that the vast majority of internet users are not really able to make themselves ‘visible’ and that their concerns receive little attention. Thus, it is more accurate to suggest that the internet offers ordinary people the potential of this power. Under what conditions can …

  • Glayol Ekbatani: Measurement and Evaluation in Post-Secondary ESL

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Applied Linguistics•2013

    Unlike previous book publications in the area of language assessment and testing, Measurement and Evaluation in Post-Secondary ESL offers a practical and concise introduction to English as a second language assessment and testing. It does not include intricate theoretical themes nor complicated mathematical calculations, but rather it focuses on the core elements of the subject matter. This book enables both ESL professionals and advanced ESL lea…

  • Privilege, Prejudice, Predicament: “PRC Scholars” in Singapore—An Overview

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Frontiers of Education in China•2014

  • A Phenomenology of being “Very China”

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Asian journal of social science•2014•Cited by: 5

    This paper offers an ethnographic account of the self-formation experiences of Mainland Chinese undergraduate students as “foreign talents” in a Singaporean university. While extant scholarship often points out that international educational sojourn has transformative effects on the student-sojourners, detailed empirical examination of how such transformations take place is still lacking; this paper furnishes a microscopic case study in this vein…

  • Authenticity” and “Foreign Talent” in Singapore: The Relative and Negative Logic of National Identity

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues in…•2014•Cited by: 13•References: 12

    SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…

  • Diaosi as infrapolitics: Scatological tropes, identity-making and cultural intimacy on China’s Internet

    Open Access•P Yang, Lijun Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2015•Cited by: 17•References: 31

    This article examines a recent bizarre phenomenon on China’s Internet – the enormous popularity of a scatological Chinese neologism called diaosi, which literally translates as ‘dick string’. Seeing the diaosi phenomenon as a case of ‘infrapolitics’, a space of nuanced discursive practices mediating overt online politics and benign online entertainment, we analyse the ways in which an infrapolitical practice such as the diaosi phenomenon fuses po…

  • Workers’ rights defence on China's internet: An analysis of actors

    Lijun Tang, Desai Shan et al.•ARTICLE•Information Communication & Society•2016

    The discourse of ‘rights defence’ (weiquan), referring to the grassroots’ struggle for legal redress after their lawful interests are encroached upon, has gained increasing popularity in China in the last two decades. Given the ubiquity of the Internet nowadays, rights defence activities also take place online; in a small number of cases, they develop into a form of online activism. But what determines or contributes to the online visibility of s…

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

    Open Access•P Yang•BOOK•International Mobility and…•2016

    This book examines the Singapore governmentâ s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service â bondâ . It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese â foreign talentâ studentsâ educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents cont…

  • Figuring out the university and the student in neoliberal times: Reviews of Learning under neoliberalism (Hyatt, Shear and Wright 2015) and Figuration work (Nielsen 2015)

    Open Access•P Yang•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•2016

    The university today is in flux, and so is the nature of learning and what it means to be a university student. While terms like ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘globalisation’ have been spoken of so frequently these days – both in academic and non-academic contexts – that they border on becoming hollow clichés, not engaging with these concepts and their implications for higher education transformations worldwide would not only represent a loss of a critical…

  • Understanding ‘integration: Chinese ‘foreign talent’ students in Singapore talking about rongru

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Transitions Journal of Transient…•2017•Cited by: 3

    Studying abroad is an increasingly prevalent form of transient migration. How do international students understand their relationship with the host society and host nationals? Based on in-depth interview data, this article investigates the ways in which international students from China at a Singaporean university understand the idea of ‘integration’ (or rongru in Chinese). It is found that these Chinese students tend to define ‘integration’ in t…

  • Why Transitions

    Catherine Gomes, Susan Leong et al.•ARTICLE•Transitions Journal of Transient…•2017•Cited by: 2

  • "Positive Energy": Hegemonic Intervention and Online Media Discourse in China's Xi Jinping Era

    P Yang, Lijun Tang•ARTICLE•China An International Journal•2018

    Scholarship to date agrees that the internet has weakened the Chinese Party-state’s ideological and discursive hegemony over society. This article documents a recent intervention into public discourse exercised by the Chinese state through appropriating and promoting a popular online catchphrase-“positive energy” (zheng nengliang). Analysing the “positive energy” phenomena using Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of hegemony and discourse, the authors ar…

  • Understanding Youth Educational Mobilities in Asia: A Comparison of Chinese 'Foreign Talent' Students in Singapore and Indian MBBS Students in China

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 46

    While scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) has proliferated in recent times, understanding of educational mobilities within the Asian region remains limited, empirically and theoretically. This paper contributes to this nascent intra-Asian ISM perspective through offering a comparative overview of two contemporary empirical cases: Chinese students recruited as ‘foreign talent’ by Singapore and Indian students headed to China to stu…

  • Desiring 'foreign talent: Lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore

    P Yang•ARTICLE•New Community•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 40

    In recent years, the Singapore government’s pro-immigration policy – specifically, its recruitment of so-called foreign talent – has caused a palpable rise in anti-immigrant sentiments and discourses amongst natives of the city-state. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, a perspective so far marginal in migration research, this article offers a provocative reading of Singapore’s desire for foreign talent and the local society’s reception of these …

  • Compromise and complicity in international student mobility: The ethnographic case of Indian medical students at a Chinese university

    Open Access•P Yang•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2018•Cited by: 28•References: 30

    Existing scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) often draws on Bourdieu to interpret such mobility as a strategy of capital conversion used by privileged classes to reproduce their social advantage. This perspective stems from and also reinforces a rationalistic interpretation of student mobility. A shift of focus to interAsian educational mobilities involving non-elite individuals and institutions can reveal logics of behavior and o…

  • Desiring Tesol and international education

    Lee Tat Chow, P Yang•ARTICLE•International Studies in…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In recent years, scholarship on inter/transnational education and educational mobility has witnessed a rising interest in the notion of ‘desire’ (e.g. Collins, Sidhu, Lewis, & Yeoh, 2014; Fong, 201

  • China in the global field of international student mobility: An analysis of economic, human and symbolic capitals

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Compare A Journal of Comparative…•2020•Cited by: 32•References: 17

    The global landscape of higher education is an uneven field where players like nation-states are placed in hierarchical and centre-periphery relations. This paper focuses on the global field of international student mobility (ISM) and investigates China’s place in the field using an analytical framework consisting of three key categories of ‘capital’: economic, human, and symbolic. Drawing on existing scholarship and author’s first-hand ethnograp…

  • Rethinking international student mobility through the lens of “crisis” at a juncture of pandemic and global uncertainties

    P Yang•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Journal of Education•2022

    International student mobility (ISM), defined as the movement of students to pursue tertiary education outside their countries of citizenship, has conventionally been understood in terms of micro social actors’ behaviours of cultural capital accumulation and macro-level institutional processes following the logics of neoliberal globalization and knowledge economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly and severely impacted ISM, plunging the latter i…

  • Allying and aligning: Teachers’ extra-curricular work, meritocracy and state-sponsored scholarships in Singapore

    Aloysius Foo, P Yang•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2022•References: 32

    Research in education has long noted teachers’ role in assisting social and ideological reproduction. Separately, scholarship has also investigated the use of extra-curricular activities in equipping disadvantaged students with social and cultural capital, to embark on social mobility. Positioned at the intersection of these two apparently disparate strands, this paper presents a case in which teachers’ extra-curricular work is seen to simultaneo…

  • Differentiated inclusion, muted diversification: Immigrant teachers' settlement and professional experiences in Singapore as a case of 'middling' migrants' integration

    P Yang•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 10•References: 30

    Existing migration research has framed ‘middling migrants’ mainly in terms of transnational fluidity and flexibility, thus overlooking the issue of integration. This article adds to a burgeoning scholarship advocating a more locally embedded perspective (e.g. Meier, 2015b. Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities, and Inequalities. New York and London: Routledge) by investigating the integration of immigrant teachers workin…

  • Virtual student mobility on Zoom: Digital Platforms and Differentiated Experiences of International Education and (Im)mobilities in a Time of Pandemic

    Open Access•Yi''En Cheng, B S A Yeoh et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 42

    Against the backdrop of growing prevalence of digital platforms in higher education, strong considerations are being made for the potential of virtual student mobility in the aftermath of the pandemic. While extant literature on digital education platforms has shed light on the relationships between platform interfaces and wider political economies, less is known about students’ experiences of virtually mediated mobility and immobility. This arti…

  • Negotiating identities, values, and teaching practices: Five immigrant teachers in Singapore schools as potential agents of educational diversity

    Open Access•P Yang, Lee Tat Chow•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Education Review•2024

  • ‘Kind of Business, You Know?’ The Commercialisation of Inclusion through Non-formal Arts Learning

    Open Access•P Yang, N Rowe•ARTICLE•Knowledge Cultures•2024

    As national and global policies emphasise the significance of social inclusion, a sense of belonging has increasingly become economically rationalised. Social exclusion is posed as an economic risk, and so neoliberal systems have commercialised and commodified social inclusion, promoting a transactional and privatised approach to ‘belonging’. This issue is particularly significant in culturally diversifying urban contexts, as a desire to develop …

  • How textual and picture cues influence motor skill learning in short instructional videos: Evidence from eye-tracking experiments

    Yue Hu, Fang Qi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Psychology in Africa•2024

  • Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: Policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students' experiences in Singapore and the UK

    Yi’en Cheng, Yi''En Cheng et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 43

    This paper is concerned with the nexus between migration governance and higher education. While the intersections between these two societal/policy systems have received attention in existing literature, much has changed as a result of the recent COVID-19 crisis. The global pandemic has introduced spatial and temporal disjuncture that significantly impact how international students navigate these systems. We address this issue through the lens of…

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