Beschreibung
This book examines the Singapore governments controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service bond. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese foreign talent students educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore societys concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.
Autorenporträt
Peidong Yang is Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include education and migration in the China-Singapore contexts as well as Internet and media in contemporary China.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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69121 Heidelberg
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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
