Betwixt and between: a qualitative review of the (re)acculturation of international students and returnees

Sonnenschein, Katrine; Michelini, Cristina; King, Brian

doi:10.1080/03069885.2021.1998884

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“…Returning to their home country enables them to introduce new ideas that can enhance economic and political outcomes and contribute to economic development (Wahba, 2021). However, the return process can entail challenges, including acculturation difficulties, reverse culture shock, limited networks and unrealistic job expectations (Sonnenschein et al ., 2021).…”

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Unemployed foreign graduates: job prospects and options – a case analysis in Portugal

Oliveira-Silva,

Soares-Semedo,

Lopez-Bermudez

2023

JEPP

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PurposeWhen graduates cannot get a job in their field of study, they have to consider alternative scenarios: extending studies while waiting for labor market conditions to improve; continuing looking for a qualified job; accepting a less qualified job; creating their own business; change their country of residence, which in the case of foreign citizens living in Portugal may involve new emigration or return to the country of origin.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was conducted with 108 foreign graduates, unemployed, 47 of whom already hold Portuguese nationality. They were asked about their country of origin, nationality, graduation, field of education, previous jobs, unemployment and alternatives to face it.FindingsThe results suggest that the main options considered are extending studies, continuing to seek skilled employment or a second migration. The desire to return to the country varies according to gender and, in some cases, the country of origin.Originality/valueThere are no studies available on the possibilities for foreign recent graduate students in terms of their choices between entering the labor market or pursuing further education.

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Unemployed foreign graduates: job prospects and options – a case analysis in Portugal

Oliveira-Silva,

Soares-Semedo,

Lopez-Bermudez

2023

JEPP

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Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India

Mukherjee,

Menon

2024

Front. Sociol.

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Digitization has carved out the migration patterns of immigrants over the recent years of increased technological interventions in human mobility. Migration infrastructures, which typically refer to the physical, commercial, humanitarian, and governmental modes of operation, are multidimensional in nature. Digital infrastructures are equally important to the physical ones as digital technologies facilitate these migration processes through agents like hardware, software, and mediating actors. Amongst the multiple forms of migration, the concept of return-writing and nostalgia-struck-returnees encompass individuals whose life trajectories run parallel to the homeland. The narrative of return to the homeland emerges aβs a dominant motif in literature due to the rising trends of globalization, the writers’ reflection on their own migrant experiences, and publishing trends meeting the demand of the global book market. The objective is to assess the role of digital migration infrastructures in return migrations to India through a close reading of the selected texts and review of postcolonial literary theories by using conditional operation in Python. The study here explores the varied nuances of return migration with a primary focus on the external conditions of travel in migration literature. The paper aims to analyze the genre of return-writing in Indian English literature, through three novels over a period of two decades, i.e., from 2000–2023. The selected texts, beginning with Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World (2000), Gun Island (2019) by Amitav Ghosh, and Devika Rege’s novel Quarterlife (2023), offer a panoramic view of return migration. These novels are extensive in the time period of technological interventions and in depiction of return migration. The Python code examines the extent of existence of a set of digital migration infrastructure keywords by analyzing the content of the novels and creates bar plots and charts to offer a visual representation of the classification results. The resulting trend traces the increased intervention of Digital Migration Infrastructure in the recent migration literature.

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Betwixt and between: a qualitative review of the (re)acculturation of international students and returnees

Cited by 2 publications

References 87 publications

Unemployed foreign graduates: job prospects and options – a case analysis in Portugal

Unemployed foreign graduates: job prospects and options – a case analysis in Portugal

Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India

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