International students’ post-graduation migration plans and the search for home

Wu, Cary; Wilkes, Rima

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.01.015

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“…; Wiles et al. ); plans for migration (Lauster and Zhao ; Wu and Wilkes ), attempts for social inclusion (Holston ; Kellet and Moore ), and globalization (Duyvendak ; Savage et al. ).…”

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Time, Place and Home: Exploring Meanings of Home in Vancouver

Vanzella‐Yang

2019

City & Community

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Building on recent studies emphasizing how structural and contextual forces shape notions of home, I explore how the experience of home is related to the concepts of time and place. Using 46 interviews with 23 individuals, I investigate how home is defined and experienced by younger and older adults in relationship to Vancouver's particular cultural, geographic, and historical contexts. I find three main ways in which respondents established a sense of home in a city concomitantly known for its livability and unaffordability: the stepping‐stone home (a future‐oriented sense of home), the despatialized home (a present‐oriented sense of home), and the extended home in time (a past‐oriented perspective) and in place (a sense of home extended onto the natural environment). My study contributes toward comprehensive understandings of home with new empirical material showing how a taken‐for‐granted experience results from an interplay between structural, contextual, and individual factors.

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“…; Wiles et al. ); plans for migration (Lauster and Zhao ; Wu and Wilkes ), attempts for social inclusion (Holston ; Kellet and Moore ), and globalization (Duyvendak ; Savage et al. ).…”

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Time, Place and Home: Exploring Meanings of Home in Vancouver

Vanzella‐Yang

2019

City & Community

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“…An Analysis of the Determinants of Intra-European Student Mobility' (Van Mol & Timmerman, 2014), reflecting the pervasiveness of the stay-return dynamic that occurs in research surrounding international student lives. This is not to say that these ideas are completely wrong or that the literature has not progressed beyond this, as these ideas even arose in some of my own student interviews, but that this concept is quite significant even in more recent scholarly articles and works like Wu and Wilkes (2017).…”

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“…It is a relatively large body of literature that primarily examines the post-graduation plans of international students and their mobilities within their host countries. Specifically, these scholars often research whether or not these international students will stay in their host countries or return home (Cairns, 2015;Sweetman & Warman, 2014;Tan & Hugo, 2017;Wu & Wilkes, 2017).…”

Section: International Student Mobilitymentioning

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“…Though, there are many studies emerging that tackle these moves and the additional factors that complicate them (Perkins & Neumayer, 2014;Tan & Hugo, 2017;Wu & Wilkes, 2017), the original concept of staying or returning has a prominent role in the literature. The progression of ISM stems from the idea of the push-pull factors that govern international students' decisions to study and potentially stay abroad, with the evidence even being in some of the titles of articles within the field of ISM going back to the mid-90s (Cairns, 2015;Wu & Wilkes, 2017). From Wu and Wilkes (2017), a few of these titles are 'To return or not to return?'…”

Section: International Student Mobilitymentioning

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“…The progression of ISM stems from the idea of the push-pull factors that govern international students' decisions to study and potentially stay abroad, with the evidence even being in some of the titles of articles within the field of ISM going back to the mid-90s (Cairns, 2015;Wu & Wilkes, 2017). From Wu and Wilkes (2017), a few of these titles are 'To return or not to return?' (Zweig, 1997), 'Visitors or immigrants?…”

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Hidden Voices in Transnationalism: International Post-Secondary Student Experiences of Precariousness and Belonging in Ottawa

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International post-secondary students have been highlighted as potential solutions to the skill and talent gaps in the Canadian economy by federal and provincial governments. Despite this, there are gaps in the literature surrounding these students in relation to their lived experiences during their stay. By applying a theoretical framework composed of transnational feminism, precarious immigration and belonging and citizenship literature, this study contributes to the current research by exploring the factors that affect the experiences of international students. Additionally, through semi-structured interviews with international students and associated staff at Carleton University and policy analysis, this study investigates whether federal, provincial and post-secondary institutions are instrumental in producing a sense of belonging or precariousness for these students. The findings indicate that though there are many resources available to foster a sense of belonging and safety, the lack of integration and knowledge across institutional scales produces precarious environments for international students.

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Postgraduate migration behaviour of international university students supported from the Czech Development Cooperation scholarships

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Feřtrová²,

Jungwiertová³

2020

Population Space and Place

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The development impacts of international scholarships for students from the Global South are most commonly understood through the expansion of human capital in the students' home countries for which the scholars' return analysed in this paper represents a key prerequisite. Utilising the theory of planned behaviour, this paper examines factors influencing the plans to return and actual postgraduation migration behaviour of 430 grantees of the Czech scholarship programme financed from the official development aid. One half of the current grantees reported plan to return, and only the 31% of alumni respondents actually returned suggesting a risk of brain drain. We found that economic integration rather than perceived sociocultural integration influences migration decision making of international students. We show how the propensity to return to scholars' home countries can be estimated from cross-sectional data. A graphical path model was developed, which helps to understand drivers of postgraduate migration behaviour of international students.

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International students’ post-graduation migration plans and the search for home

Cited by 55 publications

References 78 publications

Time, Place and Home: Exploring Meanings of Home in Vancouver

Time, Place and Home: Exploring Meanings of Home in Vancouver

Hidden Voices in Transnationalism: International Post-Secondary Student Experiences of Precariousness and Belonging in Ottawa

Postgraduate migration behaviour of international university students supported from the Czech Development Cooperation scholarships

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