Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north.
Geographic mobility is increasingly perceived worldwide as a key to academic excellence, career advancement and upward social mobility. Drawing on long-term qualitative fieldwork data, this paper interrogates the impact of academic mobility in reconfiguring class and gender identities among students...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 43; no. 16; pp. 2704 - 2720 |
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