EU-China Student and Academic Staff Mobility: Present Situation and Future Developments

Mathou, Cécile; Jin, Yan

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“…In the meantime, many western countries are implementing measures to attract more Chinese students. For example, an increasing number of exchange programmes have been initiated to encourage Chinese students to study in the European Union (Mathou and Yan, ). It is a win‐win strategy.…”

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A Survey of the Influencing Factors for International Academic Mobility of Chinese University Students

Cao

Zhu

Qian

2015

Higher Education Quarterly

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This research aims to understand the factors influencing international academic mobility within the Chinese higher education context. The inventory of University Students’ Perceptions of Influencing Factors for International Academic Mobility was developed and tested to enquire about Chinese university students’ perceptions of factors influencing their decisions on international academic mobility. The findings reveal that ‘mobility cost’, ‘quality of host institutions’, ‘future career prospects’, ‘financial aid and employment rate and income in host country’ play leading roles in international academic mobility. Important differences were identified in ‘gender’, ‘major‐ and family‐education background’. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted to predict the interest in mobility from the external factors. The results indicated that ‘future career prospects’, ‘quality of host institutions’, ‘mobility cost’ and ‘climate environment in host country’ emerged as significant favourable pull factors for Chinese university students' interest in mobility. ‘Geographical distance’ emerged as a significant unfavourable pull factor. ‘Impact from parents’ and ‘language and intercultural training of home institutions’ emerged as favourable push factors. ‘Economic situation of home country’ emerged as an unfavorable push factor.

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Section: Limitations and Conclusionmentioning

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A Survey of the Influencing Factors for International Academic Mobility of Chinese University Students

Cao

Zhu

Qian

2015

Higher Education Quarterly

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“…In the past decade, the total number of Chinese students in the European Union (EU) has soared to between 118,700 and 120,000, which is about six times more than it was in 2000 (Mathou & Yan 2012). While a large proportion of students are located in the UK (around 40% in total), an increasing number of students are moving to non-Anglophone EU countries, such as France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland (GHK Consulting & Renming University 2011).…”

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Understanding the Integration of Mainland Chinese Students: <i>The Case of Finland</i>

Pitkänen

2018

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This study examines the integration experiences of mainland Chinese tertiarylevel students in Finland, a non-Anglophone country. The article identifies four conceptual domains of integration -academic, social, economic and culturalas central to the students' integration processes. Data for analysing the Chinese students' integration experiences were collected through semi-structured interviews (n = 30), and the research findings showed that both English and the host language Finnish mediated the Chinese students' integration into the host academic and social environments. Although the students initially faced challenges in their studies and daily lives, many of them managed to establish meaningful cross-cultural social contact and overcame cultural differences and language barriers to integrate into the new academic environment. The findings suggest that the maintenance of transnational ties and co-national networks can facilitate Chinese international student integration abroad, through promotion of meaningful cross-cultural contacts that contribute to the host society.

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“…The first reason is the increased migration of Chinese students and scholars to Europe, especially in the UK, Germany and France, after 9/11. The number of Chinese students studying in Europe increased sixfold during the first decade of the 2000s, 40% of them settling in the UK, 23% in France and 20% in Germany (Mathou and Yan, 2012), but, unlike Chinese students studying in North America, many of them would eventually have to leave because of the rigid immigration policies of European countries. 12 Moreover, Chinese students (and scholars) who study in Europe are often from middleclass or affluent backgrounds, with families that can afford the education costs.…”

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“…By 1998, the Revd Tao had started a 'London Chinese Scholar Christian Fellowship'. 2 After working with the fellowship for some years, he began to feel the inadequacy of both his knowledge and the resources available to cope with the unexpectedly large population, which increased sixfold during the first decade of the 2000s, largely as a result of the tightening of the USA's visa policies after 9/11 (Mathou and Yan, 2012). In 2006, the Revd Tao decided to join the Logos Evangelical Seminary in the USA to pursue two main goals: first, to equip himself with ministry knowledge, and second, on behalf of Chinese Christian communities in Europe, to give a 'new Macedonian call' to their counterparts in North America, inviting workers 'to reap the Lord's harvest in Europe' (Tao, 2009: 161).…”

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Chinese evangelists on the move: space, authority, and ethnicisation among overseas Chinese Protestant Christians

Huang

Hsiao

2015

Social Compass

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Since the 2000s, Chinese Christians in Europe have witnessed an increasing flow of resources and evangelists from Chinese Christian Communities in North America. Based on information gathered in the UK, Germany and China, this article aims to reveal the mechanisms and dynamics behind the space-making and network-building in overseas Chinese Protestant Christians’ missionisation processes. The authors suggest that the increased flow takes place in an imagined faith community reinforced by the discourse on the ‘suffering’ of the Chinese nation, that it is a result of a far-reaching geographical imaginary with ethnic Chinese evangelists as God’s new chosen people, and that it is linked to the dynamics in the specific locations of North America, Europe and China. These mechanisms and dynamics are entangled with a ‘network of moralities’ arising from the discourses on ‘authenticity’ and ‘suffering’. The result is a distinct ethno-religious space, which, however, does not conflict with the cosmopolitan aims of the grand missionary enterprise.

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EU-China Student and Academic Staff Mobility: Present Situation and Future Developments

Cited by 9 publications

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A Survey of the Influencing Factors for International Academic Mobility of Chinese University Students

A Survey of the Influencing Factors for International Academic Mobility of Chinese University Students

Understanding the Integration of Mainland Chinese Students: <i>The Case of Finland</i>

Chinese evangelists on the move: space, authority, and ethnicisation among overseas Chinese Protestant Christians

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