Pandemic Im/Mobility as Opportunity: Middle‐Class Asian Migrant Women in Australia

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 11, 2025

ABSTRACT Studies on the impact of COVID‐19 ethnic minorities are often centred around racism and socio‐economic inequality. Accordingly, people with Asian heritage frequently portrayed as victims, rather than agency. Drawing from interviews middle‐class migrant women, we examine various im/mobilities women experienced during pandemic: in public/private sphere, urban to regional cities, intimacies international students. Our research demonstrated how female migrants empowered themselves pandemic by becoming mobile multiple ways. Certainly, study's participants did encounter immobility. However, their circumstances benefitted significantly status, relatively young age independent visa status. The attention participants' lives before also enabled insight into relationality im/mobility: even immobilised many people, it could mobilise reconfigure opportunity.

Язык: Английский

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Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 50(5), С. 1138 - 1156

Опубликована: Дек. 11, 2023

This paper is concerned with the nexus between migration governance and higher education. While intersections these two societal/policy systems have received attention in existing literature, much has changed as a result of recent COVID-19 crisis. The global pandemic introduced spatial temporal disjuncture that significantly impact how international students navigate systems. We address this issue through lens student mobility, taking postgraduate students' perspectives vantage point. By drawing on comparative qualitative study Singapore UK (specifically, London), we focus experience, first, (mis)alignments pandemic-induced mobility regulation and, second, tensions regulations institutional measures adopted by universities UK. In both contexts, often compounded complexities policies, creating additional barriers for students. navigating new challenges, adaptively draw various resources while also imagining possibilities presented otherwise challenging circumstances.

Язык: Английский

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Optimized multiple-attribute group decision-making through employing probabilistic hesitant fuzzy TODIM and EDAS technique and application to teaching quality evaluation of international Chinese course in higher vocational colleges

Heliyon, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 10(4), С. e25758 - e25758

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2024

With the construction and development of "the Belt Road", international community has an increasing demand for high-quality technical skilled talents who both understand Chinese have perspective. Exploring a curriculum system suitable students is conducive to promoting vocational education, improving quality student training, providing talent support foreign enterprises, "going out" enterprises production capacity cooperation. The training in higher colleges starts late, little experience, lacks theoretical innovation, characteristics education. teaching evaluation course multiple-attributes group decision-making (MAGDM). Recently, TODIM EDAS technique been employed manage MAGDM. probabilistic hesitant fuzzy sets (PHFSs) are as useful tool depicting uncertain information during colleges. In this paper, TODIM-EDAS (PHF-TODIM-EDAS) built MAGDM under PHFSs. Finally, numerical example show PHF-TODIM-EDAS technique. main contribution paper outlined: (1) based on extended PHFSs CRITIC technique; (2) derive weight numbers (3) founded PHFSs; (4) case study some comparative analysis supplied validate proposed

Язык: Английский

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Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic

Mobilities, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 18(5), С. 839 - 854

Опубликована: Май 21, 2023

AbstractAbstractAgainst the backdrop of growing prevalence digital platforms in higher education, strong considerations are being made for potential virtual student mobility aftermath pandemic. While extant literature on education has shed light relationships between platform interfaces and wider political economies, less is known about students' experiences virtually mediated immobility. This article draws upon research that examines how students universities responding to COVID-19 pandemic its subsequent impact border control international travel. First, it discusses socio-technical Zoom extends stabilises imagined, communicative, aspirational mobilities a context stalled physical mobility. Second, underlines crevices moorings mediation Third, refashion their (im)mobile subjectivities through spaces vis-à-vis negotiation co-presences renewed interaction. In doing so, we argue role corporeal mobility, social interaction, inhabiting tangible places remain core aspect aspirations.Keywords: Virtual mobilitydigitalisationhigher educationpandemic(im)mobilities AcknowledgementsThis funded by National University Singapore Humanities Social Sciences Seed Fund project International Student Mobility Time COVID-19: Regimes, Experiences Aspirations, 2021-2022 [PI: Brenda Yeoh], supported Ministry Education Academic Research Tier 2 [MOE-T2EP402A20-0004, PI: Ho Kong Chong].Ethical approvalThe received ethical clearance from Institutional Review Board (NUS-IRB-2020-532) (NUS-IRB-2020-92).Notes1 contrast other countries such as Australia, US UK, public prioritise enrolment domestic rather than adoption market-oriented approach recruitment students. 2011, Singaporean government announced cap bring down proportion foreign 15 percent across local universities.2 Information provided accurate 22 September 2021. Given contingent nature travel measures, categories health measures periodically reviewed updated at https://safetravel.ica.gov.sg/shn-and-swab-summary.3 Universities were only able resume overseas programmes small scale selected October 2021 (The Straits Times The Times. "Overseas Programmes S'pore Resume Early October." 10. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/overseas-student-programmes-by-spore-universities-to-resume-as-early [Google Scholar]).5 Senior-Middle (SM) scholarship scheme bilateral collaboration People's Republic China channels second-year Chinese senior middle school continue studies Singapore's schools subsequently universities. See Yang (2016 Yang, P. 2016. "Selecting Scholars Singapore: SM2 Program." Educational Desire. Anthropological Studies Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.[Crossref] , Scholar]) further information scholars Singapore.

Язык: Английский

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Starting university during the pandemic: First-year international students’ complex transitions under online and hybrid-learning conditions

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14

Опубликована: Фев. 16, 2023

International education activities suddenly halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, severely disrupting student mobility and academic learning. Many educational institutions have delivered programs students through digital devices globally rather than in situ. Such a shift presents unique opportunity assess impact of online hybrid for international students. This qualitative study interviewed 30 who had arrived on campus shared their first-year university transition experiences during pandemic. The analysis shows that spatial temporal circumstances created two scenarios thus resulted different experiences. Although all were dissatisfied with learning, studying at distance time zones was particularly detrimental students' mental physical health. (im)mobile environments led mismatches expectations, roles, activities, realities, negatively affecting learning adjustment. highlights complex issues offers implications sustainable hybrid-learning practices system.

Язык: Английский

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The ‘chosen’ UK? Remapping of international education mobility for prospective Chinese master’s students during and post the COVID-19 pandemic

Higher Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 8, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Mobility Repertoires: How Chinese Overseas Students Overcame Pandemic-Induced Immobility

International Migration Review, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 58(2), С. 545 - 572

Опубликована: Май 3, 2023

The burgeoning field of immobility studies focuses on how migratory aspirations and capabilities shape a given (im)mobility status but devotes scant attention to people traverse different categories. Through case study Chinese students in the United States during COVID-19 pandemic, this article develops two arguments shed light migrants’ experiences strategies mobility transitions. First, while China's restrictive travel policies unfavorable public discourses made return migration extremely difficult, overseas also felt unwelcome States, due visa restrictions Sinophobic violence. This dilemma being unable homeland simultaneously stranded hostile host society pushed student migrants, previously highly mobile population, into immobility. Second, drawing in-depth interviews, we discover that deployed four sets tools—online crowdsourcing, virtual intermediary, temporal adaptation, institutional cushioning—to reclaim mobility. We propose concept “mobility repertoires” capture social actors’ active retooling deliberate restrategizing digital, cognitive, resources navigate unsettling predicaments construct new tactics. By cross-fertilizing infrastructure, provide an action-centered, processual account (im)mobilities as agential practices robust courses action, rather than static statuses or transcends bias literature international (ISM) by unraveling co-production discursive constraints home countries.

Язык: Английский

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Reconnecting with roots, negotiating with institutions, and struggling with identities: the journey home of transnational Chinese students during COVID-19

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 17

Опубликована: Фев. 18, 2024

Язык: Английский

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When infrastructures collide: transnational higher education and Chinese international students' (im)mobility in the pandemic era

Asian Education and Development Studies, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 11, 2024

Purpose This study aims to unravel the tensions and convergences between market-oriented neoliberal education state-serving transnational higher (TNHE) practices through an infrastructural lens within broad context of post-pandemic geopolitics. Design/methodology/approach The utilizes a case approach, with diverse array data collection methods, including observations, interviews review material/online documents issued by TNHE-related institutions Chinese Ministry Education. Findings identifies three findings: (1) Re-articulation infrastructures, valuing ‘glocal' casting immobility as advantageous yet quasi-mobile; (2) Infrastructural arising from stakeholder contests over program control (3) dialectics, illustrating how promised (im)mobility becomes tightly regulated academic journey due institutional constraints conflicts. Research limitations/implications findings elucidate dynamic interplay international TNHE amidst pedagogical trends pandemic-driven geopolitical shifts in China. While showcased notable effect on students' during pandemic, more empirical research is needed understand student issues era. Originality/value explores intersections unprecedented Covid-19. may provide reference for policymakers practitioners strategize “glocal” approach international/transnational China after pandemic.

Язык: Английский

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Reviving global mobility: Exploring traditional and virtual study abroad management

Research in Comparative and International Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 19(4), С. 395 - 401

Опубликована: Ноя. 7, 2024

In recent decades, international academic mobility has emerged as a rapidly growing and dynamic phenomenon within the realm of higher education, expanding evolving concept study abroad. Millions students aspire to cross borders experience diverse cultures, form new social connections, gain global perspectives, enhance their educational experiences (Mammadova, 2023a). response, policymakers, university administrators, other stakeholders involved in programs have worked diligently meet needs students, striving make these more accessible user-friendly. words, offered by Erasmus+, European Union, eTwinning, similar initiatives gained widespread adoption community.

Язык: Английский

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