Mobility and desire
International students and Asian regionalism in aspirational Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2938835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felicity Collins (0000-0001-9453-4465, University of Auckland, corresponding author), Francis L Collins, Rajdeep Sidhu (0000-0001-8790-021X, The University of Queensland), Ravinder Sidhu, N Lewis (0000-0001-8645-0704, University of Auckland), B S A Yeoh (0000-0002-0240-3175, National University of Singapore), Brenda Sa Yeoh |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 661-676 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2014.921996 |
| OpenAlex | W1983935596 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 81 |
| References cited | 25 |
Higher education is playing an important role in Singapore's most recent cycle of modernization: to re-make itself into a global city through the continued accumulation of capital, ‘talent,’ and knowledge. This paper is a critical analysis of the accounts of a group of international students enrolled at the National University of Singapore, a key strategic site in Singapore's bid to reconfigure itself into a knowledge hub. We discuss international student negotiations of Singapore's global city imaginings against a policy context that foregrounds a desire for regional students in the state's imagination and aspiration. In inquiring what political work international education is called upon to do to further Singapore's progressive developmentalism, we open up an analytical space for understanding the global city as both a cosmopolitan metropolis that is continually being refashioned by the desires and aspirations of new student actors, and a place of transit from which students leave having acquired valuable navigational capacities
Democracy · Developmentalism · Global city · Higher education · International education · Modernization theory · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Governing Foreign Graduate Retention in Small State Hubs
Reflecting on the Margins
Transnational Brokers and the Desire for Labour Migration
Making space for an international branch campus
Transperipheral Educational Mobility
Discursive imaginaries and lived realities in the making of an education hub
International academic or citizen scholar
Language learning and study abroad
Por qué Chile? Un análisis post crítico sobre los discursos de escala en la movilidad académica internacional
Critical Geographies of Education Beyond “Value”
Competing for Academic Labor
Internationally mobile academics
Distinctive and comparative places
Educational Desire and Transnationality of South Korean Middle Class Parents in Beijing
Cash, competition, or charity
Making Sense of One's Feelings
International Student Migration to the GCC States
Rethinking international student mobility through the lens of “crisis” at a juncture of pandemic and global uncertainties
Mobility Decisions of Non‐European Degree Mobile Students in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom
Migration aspirations and polymorphic identifications of the homeland
Talent retention in South Korean context
Making moves
Understanding Sino-Singapore educational exchanges
A bibliometric analysis of international student mobility research in Asia
Broken Desire
Towards the ‘rationality–emotion nexus’ for approaching international student mobility
Mobility as Capital
International Student Mobility and After‐Study Lives
When the world is your oyster
Desire and the making of the mobile subject
Towards an integrative understanding of contemporary educational mobilities
(Accidental ) Internationalisation of higher education beyond English, and complementary, intersecting desires
American international students’ motivation to study abroad in Thailand
Asian student mobilities at the ‘edges’ of global higher education
Examining the odd, not the norm
Complicit mobility
Stealth marketisation
Navigating the future
Globalising higher education and cities in A sia and the P acific
Desiring Tesol and international education
University, neoliberalism and hegemonic bodies
Education unbound? Enlivening debates with a mobilities perspective on learning
Advancing the geographies of the performing arts
Destined for Asia
Are New Zealand universities underperforming? An analysis of international enrolments in Australian and New Zealand universities
The Emotional Geographies of Being Stranded Due to Covid-19
Suzhi as Cultural-Moral Governance
Children and young people's emotions of migration across Asia
Intimate borders
On the role of cultures of (out-)migration in the migration decisions of young people in shrinking regions of Central Germany
The Education‐Migration Industry
Study abroad as governmentality
A future of endless possibilities? Institutional habitus and international students’ post-study aspirations and transitions
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme
Transnational spaces of education as infrastructures of im/mobility
Evaluating the process of cross‐European migration
Negotiating Educational Choices in Uncertain Transnational Space
It was always the plan’
Racial sensemaking and international student mobility
Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore
Navigating aspirations and expectations
Of ‘international exposure’, place and mobility trajectories
Conceptualising place and non-place in internationalisation of higher education research
Producing mobility
International student mobilities in a contagion
Shaping Asia Through Student Mobilities
Cosmopolitan pathways from the Global South
Governmental assemblages of internationalising universities
Learning in neoliberal times
International education 'here' and 'there
International students in China
It's kind of becoming a culture
Desire as a theory for migration studies
Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglo-sphere
Emotions and cosmopolitan sociability
Educational Friction
Higher education, English, and the idea of 'the West
I'm not a gastarbeiter anymore
Thailand's 'English fever', migrant teachers and cosmopolitan aspirations in an interconnected Asia
Possibilities of transformation
No sleep, no dreams
Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education
“Push‐pull” factors influencing international student destination choice
Modernity at large
Non-places
Transnational Student-Migrants and the State
Worlding Cities
Negotiating un/familiar embodiments
Theorising the Spaces of Student Migration
Desperately seeking the global subject
Global Assemblage
Regional Pathways
Beyond flexible citizenship
A thousand plateaus
Global Flows of Foreign Talent
Please Stay
The new spatial politics of (re)bordering and (re)ordering the state-education-citizen relation
Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city
| Unique citing works | 81 |
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| Citations per year | 6,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |