International Mobility and Educational Desire
Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore| By: | Peidong Yang |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137591425 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137591432 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2016 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book examines the Singapore government’s 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 society’s concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.