U.S. Engineering Degrees for Improving South Indian Graduate Students' Marriage and Dowry Options.

Autor/inn/en	Yakaboski, Tamara; Stout Sheridan, Robyn; Dade, Kristin
Titel	U.S. Engineering Degrees for Improving South Indian Graduate Students' Marriage and Dowry Options.
Quelle	In: Journal of studies in international education, 18 (2014) 1, S. 45-63Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1028-3153; 1552-7808
DOI	10.1177/1028315313497060
Schlagwörter	Forschung; Gender; Lernen; Lehren; Internationalisierung; Mobilität; Hochschulpersonal; Aufbaustudium; Student; Indien
Abstract	The article examines improved marriage opportunities as an unexplored motivator for pursuing international education via U.S. graduate engineering degrees and stresses the need to centralize gender in analyzing academic mobility and international education. This interdisciplinary qualitative study explores how South Indian men and women's experiences with international graduate education migration held gendered consequences for marriage and dowry. The participants show that the pursuit of a U.S. graduate engineering degree impacts a family's social and financial status by improving student's marriage options, including love marriages, arranged ones, and dowry. The research has implications for the recruitment and retention of Indian men and women engineers as graduate school migration overlaps with the socially preferred marriage timeline and it encourages policy makers and administrators to consider nontraditional motivators. (HoF/text adopted).
Erfasst von	Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Update	2014/4