Hannah Soong
Biographic Data
| ID | 312164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Soong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Soong |
| SIGNATURE | SOONG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1798-4881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Developing communication competence among international pre-service teachers through a teacher educator–facilitated ‘community of practice’
The rising enrolment of international students in higher education worldwide brings both opportunities and challenges, particularly for those in teacher education programs, who face professional experiences where cultural, linguistic, and pedagogical differences intersect. Building on the conceptual framework of ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP), this Australian-based study explores how a communication Program supports first-year international pre-se…
A Systematic Literature Review of International Student Resilience: Moving Toward an Interdisciplinary Multilayered Model
The study of international student resilience is of paramount psychological, political, and sociological significance. To date, however, no comprehensive mapping of the existing research on this topic has been undertaken. In response, our systematic literature review screened 5,635 publications retrieved from more than 80 databases and analyzed the 66 most relevant studies in-depth. We examined the contextual, conceptual, methodological, and empi…
Rethinking “counterintuitive” results and analogical reasoning: A rejoinder to the critique of “erroneous regression”
Since its online publication on 16 January 2025, Scapegoating international students for the rental crisis? Insights from large-scale evidence (2017–2024) in Australia has attracted significant attention and sparked widespread discussion. Among the responses is Kault’s critique, Erroneous regression used to associate higher international student numbers with lower rents . As our publication continues to generate impact, Kault’s critique is a welc…
Asia Literacy as Global Citizenship Education: An Australian Primary School Case
Asia literacy is a longstanding policy priority in Australian schooling, yet little empirical research has examined how it is taught in classrooms. This qualitative case study investigates how Asia literacy was taught within a primary school’s broader commitment to global citizenship education (GCE), attending to educational purpose, content, and pedagogical relationships. Drawing on classroom observations, interviews, and curricular materials, a…
Scapegoating international students for the rental crisis? Insights from large-scale evidence (2017–2024) in Australia
Traditional international student destinations in the West are grappling with the thorny issue of rental crisis. In this challenging context for all, international students are caught within the political whims that blame them for the crisis. In this paper, we draw on large-scale evidence from Australia — including data collected at 76 time points from 2017 to 2023 at the national level and 79 time points from 2017 to 2024 at the capital city lev…
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences
Children’s social lives are mediated increasingly by digital tools, thereby making new modes of home-school-world relationships possible. In this context, children’s digital out-of-school social practices continue to be associated with risk. Children are construed as an “at risk” and vulnerable population by adults who frame children’s everyday digital social life with ambivalence. This framing is used to justify imposition of constraints in the …
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: An Australian study
Among Western destination countries, Australia has been highly successful in attracting international students. The wellbeing of these students is a critical issue for Australian universities and wider communities. Yet, little is known about international students’ perspectives on the relationship between their wellbeing and everyday engagement experiences with domestic students and staff on campus, and members of the local communities. This pape…
A ‘community turn’ to engaging international students: The ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ social capital
Reasserting care in higher education: Perspectives From Female Early and Mid-Career Researchers
Universities globally face growing pressure to maintain competitiveness in research excellence. This corporatisation of market values often overlooks intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class. This is especially true for a group of female Mid/Early-Career Researchers (M/ECRs) working in a large Australian university who experience significant challenges due to the undervaluing of care within universities. Drawing on Tronto’s ethics of …
Mapping Transnational Habitus: Epistemology, Theory and Boundaries
For over twenty years, the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series has contributed to cross-disciplinary empirical and theoretical debates on migration processes, serving as a critical forum for and problematising the main issues around the global movement and circulation of people.Grounded in both local and global accounts, the Series firstly focuses on the conceptualisation and dynamics of complex contemporary national and transnational dri…
Everyday refugee integration: A holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees
Addressing public discourses that refugees are a burden, threat or cost, unable or unwilling to integrate into society, we argue in this article for a holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration. The article explores what we call ‘everyday refugee integration’ – that is, the ways in which refugee-background migrants participate in, contribute to and become a part of their local community socially, culturally and economically. We do so thr…
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts
This article explores the operationalization of transnational habitus by scholars to understand how individuals experience mobilities across borders. Our scoping study of 21 scholarly publications focuses on the various ways in which transnational habitus is defined as well as the different approaches to theorizing a transnational habitus. In critically mapping the relatively short history of transnational habitus, we are interested in what about…
Humanising the internationalisation of higher education: Enhancing international students’ wellbeing through the capability approach
The international student experience has strategically transformed the internationalisation of higher education globally. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, international student wellbeing has decreased. To enhance their wellbeing, we argue international students’ experience should be broadened to include community engagement, thereby increasing core capabilities for, by and with international students. Using Sen’s capability approach as a conceptual …
Intergenerational aspirations for educational and employment success of refugee youth
While studies on refugee-background students in school contexts have been prolific, research of this population in higher education or post-tertiary education is still emergent. The paper attends to this gap by drawing on the narratives of five refugee-background young adults who are undertaking Australian higher education or have completed university studies. An interpretive analysis of their life-story interviews is drawn from Appadurai’s conce…
Negotiating ‘global middle-class’ teacher professionalism: Using transnational habitus to explore the experiences of teacher expatriates in Shanghai
This paper investigates the experiences of Western teacher expatriates in a Shanghai international schooling organization. We explore the risks and benefits associated with transnational mobility and how teacher expatriates, as part of the global middle-class (GMC), maintain and reaffirm their middle-class status. Focusing on adaptation and constraint in professional contexts, the data illustrates how the teachers respond to new discourses and th…
Raising cosmopolitan children: Chinese middle-class parents’ educational strategies
This article examines the educational strategies of Shanghai Chinese middle-class parents who intend to raise their children to be cosmopolitans. It is based on a 2-year interview study of a group of Chinese parents who send their children to accredited international bilingual schools in Shanghai. Drawing on the concept of ordinary cosmopolitanism, I identify the promotion of extra-curricular activities and frequent travel within China and intern…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversation
Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in securing the common good. The common good is never what individuals or particular groups want or desire, bu…
Singapore international education hub and its dilemmas: The challenges and makings for cosmopolitan learning
Higher education in Asia is massifying at an exceptional pace and scale. In this paper, I ask how practices and discourses which inform the internationalization of Singapore’s higher education can provide opportunities for developing cosmopolitan learning that it claims to provide. Cosmopolitan learning is closely related to cross-border student mobility and plays an important role in shaping the international students’ identities, aspirations an…
Transnational teachers in Australian schools: Implications for democratic education
While current debates on education for children from migrant background often focus on the prevailing problems of self-segregation and racialisation in Australian education, I take my point of departure from such perspectives to ask how the evolution of a burgeoning mobile teacher, who operates on a global scale, can matter to the distribution of educational opportunity and shape of democratic education outcomes for both domestic and overseas-bor…
International mobility and educational desire: Chinese foreign talent students in Singapore
Singapore’s rapid rise in global capitalism has translated its economic success into massive improvements in material living. Within a brief two decades, Singapore has transformed its labour-intens
Transnational mobility through education: A Bourdieusian insight on life as middle transnationals in Australia and Canada
This article argues for a more nuanced view of mobility through education within an era of increased globalisation. We explore questions of transnational mobility through the lens of underexplored Bourdieusian concepts, specifically transnational habitus and habitus clivé. Our analysis shows how one's perception of a ‘better life’ and one's ideology of ‘entrepreneur self’ are produced despite one's encounter with disparity between their fields of…
Building spaces of hope with refugee and migrant-background students
Within the Australian context, research into schooling experiences of refugee and migrant-background students has tended to focus on developing English language proficiency with little attention given to initiatives that contribute more broadly to students’ social and educational resources. Whilst not denying the significance of English language acquisition, this paper explores strategies, implemented at one school, designed to enhance social, cu…
Teachers' experiences in teaching Chinese Australian students in health and physical education
Transnational Students and Mobility: Lived experiences of migration
As globalisation deepens, student mobility and migration has not only impacted economy and institutions, it has also infused human desires, imaginaries, experiences and subjectivities. In Transnational Students and Mobility, Hannah Soong portrays the vexed nexus of education and migration as a site of multiple tensions and existence and examines how the notion of imagined mobility through education-migration nexus transforms the social value of i…
No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way
the Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers, Cape Town, Pambazuka Press, 2011, 160 pp., £16.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-906387-84-6 In this major new book of anthology, everyone is singing a common tune and
Transnational mobility through education: A Bourdieusian insight on life as middle transnationals in Australia and Canada
This article argues for a more nuanced view of mobility through education within an era of increased globalisation. We explore questions of transnational mobility through the lens of underexplored Bourdieusian concepts, specifically transnational habitus and habitus clivé. Our analysis shows how one's perception of a ‘better life’ and one's ideology of ‘entrepreneur self’ are produced despite one's encounter with disparity between their fields of…
Raising cosmopolitan children: Chinese middle-class parents’ educational strategies
This article examines the educational strategies of Shanghai Chinese middle-class parents who intend to raise their children to be cosmopolitans. It is based on a 2-year interview study of a group of Chinese parents who send their children to accredited international bilingual schools in Shanghai. Drawing on the concept of ordinary cosmopolitanism, I identify the promotion of extra-curricular activities and frequent travel within China and intern…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversation
Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in securing the common good. The common good is never what individuals or particular groups want or desire, bu…
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts
This article explores the operationalization of transnational habitus by scholars to understand how individuals experience mobilities across borders. Our scoping study of 21 scholarly publications focuses on the various ways in which transnational habitus is defined as well as the different approaches to theorizing a transnational habitus. In critically mapping the relatively short history of transnational habitus, we are interested in what about…
Teachers' experiences in teaching Chinese Australian students in health and physical education
Negotiating ‘global middle-class’ teacher professionalism: Using transnational habitus to explore the experiences of teacher expatriates in Shanghai
This paper investigates the experiences of Western teacher expatriates in a Shanghai international schooling organization. We explore the risks and benefits associated with transnational mobility and how teacher expatriates, as part of the global middle-class (GMC), maintain and reaffirm their middle-class status. Focusing on adaptation and constraint in professional contexts, the data illustrates how the teachers respond to new discourses and th…
Reasserting care in higher education: Perspectives From Female Early and Mid-Career Researchers
Universities globally face growing pressure to maintain competitiveness in research excellence. This corporatisation of market values often overlooks intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class. This is especially true for a group of female Mid/Early-Career Researchers (M/ECRs) working in a large Australian university who experience significant challenges due to the undervaluing of care within universities. Drawing on Tronto’s ethics of …
Transnational teachers in Australian schools: Implications for democratic education
While current debates on education for children from migrant background often focus on the prevailing problems of self-segregation and racialisation in Australian education, I take my point of departure from such perspectives to ask how the evolution of a burgeoning mobile teacher, who operates on a global scale, can matter to the distribution of educational opportunity and shape of democratic education outcomes for both domestic and overseas-bor…
Building spaces of hope with refugee and migrant-background students
Within the Australian context, research into schooling experiences of refugee and migrant-background students has tended to focus on developing English language proficiency with little attention given to initiatives that contribute more broadly to students’ social and educational resources. Whilst not denying the significance of English language acquisition, this paper explores strategies, implemented at one school, designed to enhance social, cu…
No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way
the Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers, Cape Town, Pambazuka Press, 2011, 160 pp., £16.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-906387-84-6 In this major new book of anthology, everyone is singing a common tune and
Transnational Students and Mobility: Lived experiences of migration
As globalisation deepens, student mobility and migration has not only impacted economy and institutions, it has also infused human desires, imaginaries, experiences and subjectivities. In Transnational Students and Mobility, Hannah Soong portrays the vexed nexus of education and migration as a site of multiple tensions and existence and examines how the notion of imagined mobility through education-migration nexus transforms the social value of i…
Teachers' experiences in teaching Chinese Australian students in health and physical education
Transnational mobility through education: A Bourdieusian insight on life as middle transnationals in Australia and Canada
This article argues for a more nuanced view of mobility through education within an era of increased globalisation. We explore questions of transnational mobility through the lens of underexplored Bourdieusian concepts, specifically transnational habitus and habitus clivé. Our analysis shows how one's perception of a ‘better life’ and one's ideology of ‘entrepreneur self’ are produced despite one's encounter with disparity between their fields of…
Building spaces of hope with refugee and migrant-background students
Within the Australian context, research into schooling experiences of refugee and migrant-background students has tended to focus on developing English language proficiency with little attention given to initiatives that contribute more broadly to students’ social and educational resources. Whilst not denying the significance of English language acquisition, this paper explores strategies, implemented at one school, designed to enhance social, cu…
Transnational teachers in Australian schools: Implications for democratic education
While current debates on education for children from migrant background often focus on the prevailing problems of self-segregation and racialisation in Australian education, I take my point of departure from such perspectives to ask how the evolution of a burgeoning mobile teacher, who operates on a global scale, can matter to the distribution of educational opportunity and shape of democratic education outcomes for both domestic and overseas-bor…
International mobility and educational desire: Chinese foreign talent students in Singapore
Singapore’s rapid rise in global capitalism has translated its economic success into massive improvements in material living. Within a brief two decades, Singapore has transformed its labour-intens
Singapore international education hub and its dilemmas: The challenges and makings for cosmopolitan learning
Higher education in Asia is massifying at an exceptional pace and scale. In this paper, I ask how practices and discourses which inform the internationalization of Singapore’s higher education can provide opportunities for developing cosmopolitan learning that it claims to provide. Cosmopolitan learning is closely related to cross-border student mobility and plays an important role in shaping the international students’ identities, aspirations an…
Negotiating ‘global middle-class’ teacher professionalism: Using transnational habitus to explore the experiences of teacher expatriates in Shanghai
This paper investigates the experiences of Western teacher expatriates in a Shanghai international schooling organization. We explore the risks and benefits associated with transnational mobility and how teacher expatriates, as part of the global middle-class (GMC), maintain and reaffirm their middle-class status. Focusing on adaptation and constraint in professional contexts, the data illustrates how the teachers respond to new discourses and th…
Raising cosmopolitan children: Chinese middle-class parents’ educational strategies
This article examines the educational strategies of Shanghai Chinese middle-class parents who intend to raise their children to be cosmopolitans. It is based on a 2-year interview study of a group of Chinese parents who send their children to accredited international bilingual schools in Shanghai. Drawing on the concept of ordinary cosmopolitanism, I identify the promotion of extra-curricular activities and frequent travel within China and intern…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversation
Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in securing the common good. The common good is never what individuals or particular groups want or desire, bu…
Intergenerational aspirations for educational and employment success of refugee youth
While studies on refugee-background students in school contexts have been prolific, research of this population in higher education or post-tertiary education is still emergent. The paper attends to this gap by drawing on the narratives of five refugee-background young adults who are undertaking Australian higher education or have completed university studies. An interpretive analysis of their life-story interviews is drawn from Appadurai’s conce…
Humanising the internationalisation of higher education: Enhancing international students’ wellbeing through the capability approach
The international student experience has strategically transformed the internationalisation of higher education globally. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, international student wellbeing has decreased. To enhance their wellbeing, we argue international students’ experience should be broadened to include community engagement, thereby increasing core capabilities for, by and with international students. Using Sen’s capability approach as a conceptual …
Mapping Transnational Habitus: Epistemology, Theory and Boundaries
For over twenty years, the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series has contributed to cross-disciplinary empirical and theoretical debates on migration processes, serving as a critical forum for and problematising the main issues around the global movement and circulation of people.Grounded in both local and global accounts, the Series firstly focuses on the conceptualisation and dynamics of complex contemporary national and transnational dri…
Everyday refugee integration: A holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees
Addressing public discourses that refugees are a burden, threat or cost, unable or unwilling to integrate into society, we argue in this article for a holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration. The article explores what we call ‘everyday refugee integration’ – that is, the ways in which refugee-background migrants participate in, contribute to and become a part of their local community socially, culturally and economically. We do so thr…
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts
This article explores the operationalization of transnational habitus by scholars to understand how individuals experience mobilities across borders. Our scoping study of 21 scholarly publications focuses on the various ways in which transnational habitus is defined as well as the different approaches to theorizing a transnational habitus. In critically mapping the relatively short history of transnational habitus, we are interested in what about…
Scapegoating international students for the rental crisis? Insights from large-scale evidence (2017–2024) in Australia
Traditional international student destinations in the West are grappling with the thorny issue of rental crisis. In this challenging context for all, international students are caught within the political whims that blame them for the crisis. In this paper, we draw on large-scale evidence from Australia — including data collected at 76 time points from 2017 to 2023 at the national level and 79 time points from 2017 to 2024 at the capital city lev…
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences
Children’s social lives are mediated increasingly by digital tools, thereby making new modes of home-school-world relationships possible. In this context, children’s digital out-of-school social practices continue to be associated with risk. Children are construed as an “at risk” and vulnerable population by adults who frame children’s everyday digital social life with ambivalence. This framing is used to justify imposition of constraints in the …
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: An Australian study
Among Western destination countries, Australia has been highly successful in attracting international students. The wellbeing of these students is a critical issue for Australian universities and wider communities. Yet, little is known about international students’ perspectives on the relationship between their wellbeing and everyday engagement experiences with domestic students and staff on campus, and members of the local communities. This pape…
A ‘community turn’ to engaging international students: The ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ social capital
Reasserting care in higher education: Perspectives From Female Early and Mid-Career Researchers
Universities globally face growing pressure to maintain competitiveness in research excellence. This corporatisation of market values often overlooks intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class. This is especially true for a group of female Mid/Early-Career Researchers (M/ECRs) working in a large Australian university who experience significant challenges due to the undervaluing of care within universities. Drawing on Tronto’s ethics of …
Developing communication competence among international pre-service teachers through a teacher educator–facilitated ‘community of practice’
The rising enrolment of international students in higher education worldwide brings both opportunities and challenges, particularly for those in teacher education programs, who face professional experiences where cultural, linguistic, and pedagogical differences intersect. Building on the conceptual framework of ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP), this Australian-based study explores how a communication Program supports first-year international pre-se…
A Systematic Literature Review of International Student Resilience: Moving Toward an Interdisciplinary Multilayered Model
The study of international student resilience is of paramount psychological, political, and sociological significance. To date, however, no comprehensive mapping of the existing research on this topic has been undertaken. In response, our systematic literature review screened 5,635 publications retrieved from more than 80 databases and analyzed the 66 most relevant studies in-depth. We examined the contextual, conceptual, methodological, and empi…
Rethinking “counterintuitive” results and analogical reasoning: A rejoinder to the critique of “erroneous regression”
Since its online publication on 16 January 2025, Scapegoating international students for the rental crisis? Insights from large-scale evidence (2017–2024) in Australia has attracted significant attention and sparked widespread discussion. Among the responses is Kault’s critique, Erroneous regression used to associate higher international student numbers with lower rents . As our publication continues to generate impact, Kault’s critique is a welc…
Asia Literacy as Global Citizenship Education: An Australian Primary School Case
Asia literacy is a longstanding policy priority in Australian schooling, yet little empirical research has examined how it is taught in classrooms. This qualitative case study investigates how Asia literacy was taught within a primary school’s broader commitment to global citizenship education (GCE), attending to educational purpose, content, and pedagogical relationships. Drawing on classroom observations, interviews, and curricular materials, a…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Higher education (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (6 works)