Journal article
Mobile self-fashioning and gendered risk: Rethinking Chinese students’ motivations for overseas education
F MARTIN
Globalisation, Societies and Education | Taylor & Francis | Published : 2017
Abstract
This article complicates dominant instrumentalist understandings of international student motivation by focusing on Chinese female tertiary students in Australia. Based on longitudinal fieldwork with 56 such students, it analyses motivations described by students and their parents in interviews, showing that these far exceed instrumentalism and engage tactics of both gendered risk management and cosmopolitan self-fashioning. Discussion of the gendered risks in post-socialist China that students seek to mitigate through study abroad illustrates the complexity of students’ motivations, and underlines the limitations of western European sociological theories of risk society which assume that ge..
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Grants
Awarded by Australian Research Council under the Future Fellowship scheme
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council under the Future Fellowship scheme (Fellowship number FT140100222).