Constructing Student Mobility

How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student markets—and how university financials shape students' lives.The popular image of the international student in the American imagination is one of affluence, access, and privilege, but is that image accurate? In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim challenges this view, arguing that universities -- no…

Between Mobility and Migration

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After the An­thro­po­cene: Time and Mo­bil­ity

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Constructing student mobility :how universities recruit students and shape pa…

"The book examines how the higher education sectors in California and South Korea have created new admissions pathways for South Korean students, reframing student mobility as not solely an individual pursuit but one shaped by institutional opportunities"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The mobility of students and the highly skilled :implications for education f…

Analyses of the interrelated mobility of students and the highly skilled that consider its implications for fiscal policy, higher education financing, and economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism Complex Trajectories, Prac…

This open access book brings novel perspectives to the scholarship on transnational migration. The book stresses the complexity of migration trajectories and proposes multi-sited field studies to capture this complexity. Its constituent chapters offer examples of onward migration spanning all major world regions. The contents exemplify a range of interdisciplinary approaches, including both qua…

Images on the Move Materiality - Networks - Formats

In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and manipulability, which had dominated early conceptions of digital photography and film. However, the mob…

Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century

Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present – a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions h…

New Social Mobility Second Generation Pioneers in Europe

This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…

The Rise of the Common City On the culture of commoning

Artists and creative workers have long been attracted to urban environments. Yet the ‘creative city ‘of the 21st century comes with its own pitfalls. From precarity at the level of the worker to gentrification at the level of the city: the creative engine starts to sputter. Therefore, after or even against the creative city, this book highlights the ‘common city’. The Rise of the Common…