Security and identity
Threats and anxieties for the internationally mobile student
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12600643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhen Li (0000-0001-6541-2610, Overseas Education College, Xiang'an Campus of Xiamen University, Xiamen, People’s Republic of China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 580-594 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2021.1918652 |
| OpenAlex | W3167283934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
The paper reports on an empirical study of Chinese international students’ experiences of personal safety and security at universities in a UK city. After locating these concerns in relation to current political, social and epidemiological contexts, it reviews the developments that have taken place in our understanding and theorisation of ‘safety’ and, in particular, ‘security’ of international students, noting the powerful implications of Marginson’s most recent conceptualisation of the issues. The paper proposes the addition of Giddens’s notion of ontological security to this developed conceptual framework. Findings from the empirical study make it clear that many students in the study remain concerned over their safety and security, and feel that their concerns are not fully appreciated by the ‘authorities’ to whom they might be expected to turn for support. For information and support on matters of personal safety, therefore, these Chinese students’ first recourse is to compatriot fellow students, reinforcing a sense of inter-dependence based on shared subjective identities. Rather than treating this ‘in-community’ solidarity as potentially undermining wider cross-cultural contact and communication, this paper proposes that a strengthened sense of ‘ontological security’ provides a foundation for cross-cultural functioning that does not entail cultural assimilation and a ‘subaltern’ status
Empirical research · Epistemology · Identity (music · Ontological security · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Security studies · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
International Student Security
Student Self-Formation in International Education
Social Networks and the International Student Experience
Culture Shock and Social Support
Fear of Crime Among Korean Americans in Chicago Communities
Emerging adulthood
Encounters with racism and the international student experience
The contribution of university accommodation to international student security
The neighbourhood context of crime against international students
Social connectedness among international students at an Australian university
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |