The Geo-Social and Global Geographies of Power
Urban Aspirations of 'Worlding' African Students in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5135262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (0000-0002-5400-7668, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Elaine L E Ho |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-33 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2016.1149697 |
| OpenAlex | W2311588519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper conceptualises the geosocial by examining the transnational connections of African student migrants and their educational experiences in Chinese cities. While there is now an established scholarship on Chinese migration to Africa, new research on the concurrent flow of African migration to China is emerging. Recent publications on African migrants in China tend to focus on the experiences of African traders, drawing out issues of illegality, 'low-end' globalisation and their impacts on Chinese trading cities. In comparison, this paper shifts the analytical lens to African educational migration in Chinese cities, foregrounding how global householding patterns reflect and leverage on the geopolitical and geo-economic dimensions of China-Africa relations. The paper shows that individual and family goals are negotiated through educational migration that, on the one hand, is concerned with accumulating human and cultural capital through a learning stint in Chinese cities, and on the other hand, is framed by perceptions of China-Africa relations. The paper argues that through educational migration, transnational social reproduction links Africa with China, but the social differentiation and everyday sociality that the African students experience in Chinese cities reinforce racial coding and development asymmetries. In so doing, the paper draws out how the geosocial reflects and constitutes the geopolitical and geo-economic dimensions of transnationalism
Beijing · China · Economic geography · Foregrounding · Geography · Geopolitics · Mobilities · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Transnationalism · China's Global Influence and Migration · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
Educating global Africans
Conflictual language ideologies and mismatched language practices of Thai international students at a Chinese-medium instruction university
Repenser par le bas les échanges universitaires afro-chinois
Geographies of welcome
Conceptualizing the discourse of student mobility between “periphery” and “semi-periphery”
International student mobility as “aspiration on the go”
The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education
Expanding Available Futures
“My second choice was Armenia”
From Asia to the World
Understanding the language ideologies and language practices of African pre-service teachers enrolled in the teaching of the Chinese language programme in China
Becoming Digital Entrepreneurs African Students in China
Beyond brokering for recruitment
Decentring” international student mobility
Towards the ‘rationality–emotion nexus’ for approaching international student mobility
How Post‐Study Plans Project Into Onward Mobility Trajectories
Investment, Chinese Language Learning and Imagined Identities
Learning to ‘tell China's story well’
African students consuming the Chinese higher education market
The path you will choose won’t be a fairy tale’
Children's Bodies Are Not Capital
International Higher Education and Public Diplomacy
Global linguistic capital, global cultural capital
Changing geopolitics of higher education
Children’s geographies II
The Case of African International Students in China at the Height of Covid-19
International students’ linguistic entrepreneurship
(Non-)participation and identity negotiation
Pedagogic affect and African international students’ attunement to Chinese language learning
African international students, work integrated learning and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education
Academic (Im)mobility
Study in China and ‘Agency in Mobility’
Exploring the Impact of the Academic Interactions and Social Relations of Graduate Black African Students on their Learning Experiences in Beijing
African student migrants in China
African migrants plight in China
Your skin is like crocodile’s’
The promise of Chinese
International Higher Education and the Pursuit of ‘Chinese’ Capitals
Conceptualising place and non-place in internationalisation of higher education research
Linguistic racism and micro-aggressions in everyday encounters of African migrants in China
African migrants in China
Emotional journeys
The Prospect of Elsewhere
It's kind of becoming a culture
Incongruent migration categorisations and competing citizenship claims
Taking a chance on China
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital
Postcolonialism and education
The Domestication of South Korean Pre-College Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium
Anti-Black Racism in Post-Mao China
Life's Work
Student switchers and the regulation of residency
Migration trajectories of ‘highly skilled’ middling transnationals
Migration and everyday matters
Transnational geographies of academic distinction
Global householding in Pacific Asia
Chinese Visions of World Order
The Role of Social Networks in the Adjustment of African Students to British Society
Generation Emigration’
Brain Abuse”, or the Devaluation of Immigrant Labour in Canada
Indigenous Professionalization
Geographies of cultural capital
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Engaged pedagogy and responsibility
International Education and (Dis)embodied Cosmopolitanisms
Flexible citizens? Transnationalism and citizenship amongst economic immigrants in Vancouver
Negotiating China
China and Africa
Conceptualizing international education
A Feminist Geopolitics
How Africans Pursue Low-End Globalization in Hong Kong and Mainland China
Transnational familyhood and the liquid life paths of South Americans in the UK
Education, migration and internationalism
The Geopolitics of China's Global Resources Quest
On the Worlding of African Cities
State Regulation of Undocumented African Migrants in China
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |