Re-entry Cultural Adaptation of Foreign-Educated Academics at Chinese Universities

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ID12634366
AutoresMingsheng Li (0000-0002-7229-0794, autor de correspondencia), Stephen M Croucher (0000-0002-7087-2547), Min Wang (0000-0001-8567-8125, Minzu University of China)
Año2020
Volumen20
Número3
Páginas1-16
Fecha de publicación2020-11-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1404-1634 • E-ISSN: 1404-1634
EditorialInternational Collaboration for Research and Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.36923/jicc.v20i3.308
OpenAlexW2767892514
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas34

This study investigates the re-entry acculturative experiences and challenges facing foreign-educated returnees working at Chinese universities. Fifteen returnees from five universities in a southwestern province of China participated in semi-structured interviews. The study, using the ABC theoretical framework, highlights the acculturative process of returned academics in terms of role expectations, transformed identities, and cultural learning. The process involves challenges and unmet expectations, including low salaries, heavy workloads, unsupportive administrative bureaucracy, political control, and lack of a healthy academic community culture. The findings show that re-entry acculturation is a never-ending process. Returnees need constantly to realign their expectations and to negotiate and reinterpret shifting realities

Acculturation · Adaptation (eye · Bureaucracy · China · Ethnic group · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology