From Intellectual Mobility to Transnational Professional Space: Experiences of Internationally Educated Chinese Academic Returnees

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dc.contributor.advisorGuo, Shibao
dc.contributor.authorLei, Ling
dc.contributor.committeememberRoessingh, Hetty
dc.contributor.committeememberJubas, Kaela
dc.contributor.committeememberKoh, Kim H.
dc.date2018-11
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-06T15:57:15Z
dc.date.available2018-07-06T15:57:15Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-05
dc.description.abstractTransnational migration brings to the fore the various connections migrants maintain with their home and sojourn countries. This study explores, within the transnational professional space, how internationally educated Chinese academic returnees maintain transnational professional ties and networks with their host countries of doctoral studies for their academic growth, and the impacts of such networks. This study employs the methodology of a qualitative case study of 12 internationally educated Chinese academics from the social sciences and humanities within three higher education institutions in Beijing, China. It confirms the significance of meso-level institutions, communities and networks in shaping returnee teachers’ academic growth, highlighting issues of access to multiple transnational communities of practice, the quality of the institutional platform and the availability of occupational space. It concludes that Chinese academic returnees have formed a virtual transnational diaspora, and contributed to strengthening the inter-dependence of academics across borders in academic and research collaboration.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLei, L. (2018). From intellectual mobility to transnational professional space: experiences of internationally educated Chinese academic returnees (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32303en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/32303
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/107081
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Education
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjecttransnational migration
dc.subjecttransnationality
dc.subjecttransnational professional space
dc.subjectDiaspora
dc.subjectintellectual mobility
dc.subjectChinese academic returnee
dc.subjectacademic adaptation
dc.subjectlifelong learning
dc.subjectCommunity of Practice
dc.subjecttransnational academic collaboration
dc.subject.classificationEducationen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Adult and Continuingen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Social Sciencesen_US
dc.titleFrom Intellectual Mobility to Transnational Professional Space: Experiences of Internationally Educated Chinese Academic Returnees
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Research
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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