‘It’s kind of becoming a culture’: how habitus influences the migration trajectories of African students in China.
Global flows of international students have diversified in recent years. As a result, the common association of this form of mobility with affluent members of the global middle class increasingly does not hold. This study focuses on one emergent student migration pattern that has been the subject of...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 48; no. 13; pp. 3005 - 3022 |
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