Negotiating Educational Choices in Uncertain Transnational Space: South Asian Diaspora in the United Arab Emirates

Autor/in	Rensimer, Lee
Titel	Negotiating Educational Choices in Uncertain Transnational Space: South Asian Diaspora in the United Arab Emirates
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 69 (2021) 5, S.599-620 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2021.1935711
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Asians; International Education; Multicampus Colleges; Foreign Countries; Networks; Higher Education; Student Mobility; Foreign Students; Study Abroad; Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Strategic Planning; Employment Opportunities; Futures (of Society); Role; Social Capital; United Arab Emirates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Internationale Erziehung; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Schülerverhalten; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Future; Society; Zukunft; Rollen; Sozialkapital; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	Transnational higher education (TNHE) has been characterised as a crude form of market-driven internationalisation, often targeting immobile student populations in countries with high demand for international academic degrees. In response to recent scholarship on the role of higher education internationalisation in facilitating and producing diasporic networks, this study examines its inverse: how TNHE services existing diasporic communities in situ by mobilising institutions across borders rather than student bodies. It specifically examines these dynamics within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), simultaneously host to one of the largest concentrations of TNHE globally and a five million-member diasporic community of long-term, yet impermanent residents from South Asia. Drawing on interviews with South Asian students in undergraduate degree programmes at three British international branch campuses (IBCs), it explores how students perceive their IBCs as strategic sources of valuable degree capitals for enhancing employment opportunities in the UAE and securing against precarity and uncertain futures as perpetually impermanent residents. The research implicates the role of TNHE in diaspora policymaking, asking how IBCs function as an extension of a limited social contract between a diasporic community and its 'host' state. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01