"I Want to Feel That I Live in China": Imaginaries and Hospitality in International Students' (Mis-)Encounters at a Top Chinese University

Autor/inn/en	Dervin, Fred; Härkönen, Anu; Yuan, Mei; Chen, Ning; Zhang, Wan
Titel	"I Want to Feel That I Live in China": Imaginaries and Hospitality in International Students' (Mis-)Encounters at a Top Chinese University
Quelle	In: Frontiers of Education in China, 15 (2020) 4, S.588-620 (33 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1673-341X
DOI	10.1007/s11516-020-0028-2
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Students; Foreign Students; Student Experience; Study Abroad; Inclusion; Acculturation; Social Discrimination; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Collegestudent; Studienerfahrung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Inklusion; Akkulturation; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung
Abstract	Research on international students' experiences abroad has tended to rely on models of adjustment, integration and/or acculturation to describe their (mis-)encounters with different kinds of people (e.g., co-nationals, locals and other international students). This paper proposes to use the more fluid concepts of "imaginaries" and "hospitality," leaving behind stages and phases of adaption and acculturation, and focusing on the influence of the Structure on their experiences. Based on a discursive pragmatic analysis of interview data with 20 international students at a top Chinese university, the authors review how the students describe the kind of hospitality experienced at this institution and the influence that it has on their (mis-)encounters. Culturalist, differentialist and essentialist imaginaries (static and fixed views of Chineseness) are often used to justify the lack of encounters and the "segregation" and somewhat "positive discrimination" that they experienced. However, the paper shows that, amongst others, the institutional hospitality management for international students leads to closed contexts of encounters and feelings of exclusion. Although the study serves as a case study and cannot be generalized to the many and varied experiences of international students in other universities in China, some recommendations are made to solve, at least in part, misconceptions about what interculturality and hospitality entail in the internationalization of higher education. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01