International Mobility and Educational Desire: Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore (Anthropological Studies of Education)

This book examines the Singapore governmentÆs controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service ôbondö. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese ôforeign talentö studentsÆ 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 societyÆs concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.

• | Author: Peidong Yang
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jul 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 149 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Education
• | ISBN-10: 1137591420
• | ISBN-13: 9781137591425