A Global Elite?

Mazlish, Bruce; Morss, Elliott R.

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“…He does, though, argue that pre-existing networks of family and friends have relatively little role to play in motivating mobility in the first place, and then in the day-to-day sociality of such professionals once they take up a job abroad. A similar theme pervades Mazlish and Morss' (2005) analysis of the 'global elite' -those who lead multinational corporations. Indeed, they contend that such workers 'increasingly see themselves as cosmopolitans, as global citizens, with an identity that...transcends the nation-state and its restricted sense of territoriality ' (p.171) and are thus unlikely to feel strongly embedded in domestic community or familial networks.…”

Section: Individualised Nature Of Many Accounts Of Transnational Mobimentioning

confidence: 91%

Social networks and educational mobility: the experiences of UK students

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Waters

2010

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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A recurrent theme in the literature on transnational mobility -and particularly that pertaining to the young and/or highly skilled -is the individualised nature of such movement, as people move to take advantage of opportunities in an increasingly interdependent world. Drawing on research with 85 young adults who had moved overseas for their higher education, or were seriously contemplating doing so, this paper subjects this claim to critical scrutiny. Indeed, it suggests that while internationally mobile students are clearly only a subset of the broader category of transnational migrants, they nevertheless demonstrate important ways in which mobility is often socially-embedded, grounded within networks of both family and friends. It then points to the socially reproductive nature of such ties, and discusses their implications for the development of 'mobility capital'.

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Section: Individualised Nature Of Many Accounts Of Transnational Mobimentioning

confidence: 91%

Social networks and educational mobility: the experiences of UK students

Brooks

Waters

2010

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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116

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“…In their study of the leaders of global companies, Mazlish and Morss (2005) argue that these ‘global elites’ ‘increasingly see themselves as cosmopolitans, as global citizens, with an identity that embraces but that also transcends the nation‐state and its restricted sense of territoriality’ (p. 171). They also suggest that there is a clear route from some forms of international education into high status multinational companies.…”

Section: Moving Into Employment: the Impact Of Overseas Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

International education and the employability of UK students

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Pimlott‐Wilson

2012

British Educational Res J

112

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A common theme within the literature on higher education is the congested nature of the graduate labour market. Researchers have highlighted the lengths to which many students now go, in response to this congestion, to ‘distinguish themselves’ from other graduates: paying increased attention to university status; engaging in a range of extra‐curricular activities; and pursuing postgraduate qualifications. Studies that have focused on the strategies of Asian students, specifically, have pointed to the important place of studying abroad as a further strategy in this pursuit of distinction. Given that there is now some evidence that the number of UK students enrolling on a degree programme overseas is increasing, this article explores the extent to which an overseas education can be seen as part of a broader strategy on the part of British students to seek distinction within the labour market and whether such an education does indeed offer tangible employment benefits.

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“…This perspective is particularly important in our increasingly globalised world, where class is less and less a category to denote power positions in a national context. One phenomenon has been the emergence of a transnational capitalist class (Sklair 2001) or the 'global elite' (Mazlish and Morss 2005) who see themselves or are perceived as cosmopolitans or global citizens, with a class identity (defined in a broad sense) that 'embraces but that also transcends the nation-state and its restricted sense of territoriality' (171). These elites are often represented in the academic and media as cosmopolitan sans frontiers who can freely cruise the world, traversing and occupying seemingly undifferentiated space, to achieve their objectives of capital accumulation.…”

Section: Migration Academic Mobility and Classmentioning

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“…This complex transnational higher education system is very much geared to the needs and aspiration of the children of this elite group. These youngsters often move around with their parents and subsequently on their own, attending schools and universities that are capable of reproducing the political and social advantages that their parents enjoy, such as being comfortable and considered to be fit for living and working in diverse cultural settings (Findlay et al 2012;Mazlish and Morss 2005). Though there are plenty of evidences to illustrate the power of this elite transnational higher education system, one should be cautioned to assume its smooth functioning (cf.…”

Section: Migration Academic Mobility and Classmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

Leung

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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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, early professionals and their families from Hong Kong and Indonesia who have studied or received further training in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. This analysis problematises the crude 'academic mobility → upward social mobility' formula and considers international academic mobility as a contextual, dynamic and multi-directional process. Through this process social positions and identities of the moving individuals and families are negotiated in an on-going manner as migrants insert into, depart from and re-insert into the various social milieus where their mobility trajectories touch ground. Narratives of interviewees illustrate the complexity and contradictions in class and gender configurations as students move across borders. They show how these individuals are inserted in contrasting social positionings, and experience how a particular social class or gender position carries different connotations. The paper concludes with a few conceptual and methodological reflections.

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A Global Elite?

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Social networks and educational mobility: the experiences of UK students

Social networks and educational mobility: the experiences of UK students

International education and the employability of UK students

Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

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