Education, Migration, and Cultural Capital in the Chinese Diaspora: Transnational Students Between Hong Kong and Canada By Johanna L. Waters
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Education, Transnational Migration, and Social Class in East Asia
Chapter 1: Globalisation, Neoliberalism, and the Transformation of Education
Examinations and Credentials
The Geography of Education and Neoliberalism
Internationalisation and the Business of Education
Institutional Initiatives and New Strategic Geographies of Education
Entrenching Standardisation in Education
Some Concerns About the Consequences of Internationalisation
Chapter 2: Internationalisation, Transnationalism and Education in Canada
Neoliberalism and Education in Canada
Government and IE
Federal Initiatives on IE
Provincial Initiatives on IE
Municipal Initiatives: Vancouver School Board
Institutional Initiatives: The University of British Columbia
Chapter 3: Education and Middle-Class Strategies in Contemporary Hong Kong
Pessimism and Uncertainty
Educational Expansion and Credential Inflation
Additional Precipitating Factors in Migration
Middle-Class Sanctuaries: International Schools
The Importance of Habitus in Directing Migration
Experiences of Education in Hong Kong
Chapter 4: Transnational Families and Education in Canada
Global Geographies of Educational Distinction
Local Geographies of Cultural Capital
The Magical Properties of the University Degree
Spatial Strategies and Educational ‘Choice’
The Creation of a ‘Transnational Class’
Chapter 5: Return to Hong Kong: Transnational Geographies of Cultural Capital
The Superiority of the Overseas Education: How ‘Failure’ is Turned to Gold
Chapter 6: Employability into the Future: Capital and the Ongoing Pursuit of Positional Advantage
Employability and Positional Advantage
Corporate Sociability
Putting in ‘Face Time’
Pursuing ‘Rarer Goods’: Specialisation and the MBA
Conclusion: Transnational Education: Geographies of Cultural Capital
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
