Transnational knowledge partnerships: new calculus and politics in Africa’s development

Obamba, Milton O.

doi:10.1080/03057925.2013.746576

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“…Recent studies illustrate how transnational mobilities are produced through HE initiatives in emigrant homelands to socialise diasporic identities and affinities with the nation and national state, where diasporic bodies are viewed by the state as symbolically and economically strategic resources to be harnessed (Bamberger, 2020;Mahieu, 2014). Others point to the programmes and policies of internationalising HEIs targeting diasporic academics or 'knowledge diaspora' as a 'rich source of intellectual remittances' for the homeland (Cai, 2012;Foulds and Zeleza, 2014, p. 16;Obamba, 2013) and, not unlike HE in dominant international student markets, a source of fee-paying students (Bamberger, 2020a). All of these onshore examples function as de facto diaspora policies with a varying degree of alignment between the state and HEIs.…”

Section: The State Diaspora and Tnhe Studentsmentioning

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Negotiating Educational Choices in Uncertain Transnational Space: South Asian Diaspora in the United Arab Emirates

Rensimer¹

2021

British Journal of Educational Studies

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Transnational higher education (TNHE) has been characterised as a crude form of market-driven internationalisation, often targeting immobile student populations in countries with high demand for international academic degrees. In response to recent scholarship on the role of higher education internationalisation in facilitating and producing diasporic networks, this study examines its inverse: how TNHE services existing diasporic communities in situ by mobilising institutions across borders rather than student bodies. It specifically examines these dynamics within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), simultaneously host to one of the largest concentrations of TNHE globally and a five million-member diasporic community of long-term, yet impermanent residents from South Asia. Drawing on interviews with South Asian students in undergraduate degree programmes at three British international branch campuses (IBCs), it explores how students perceive their IBCs as strategic sources of valuable degree capitals for enhancing employment opportunities in the UAE and securing against precarity and uncertain futures as perpetually impermanent residents. The research implicates the role of TNHE in diaspora policymaking, asking how IBCs function as an extension of a limited social contract between a diasporic community and its 'host' state.

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Section: The State Diaspora and Tnhe Studentsmentioning

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Negotiating Educational Choices in Uncertain Transnational Space: South Asian Diaspora in the United Arab Emirates

Rensimer¹

2021

British Journal of Educational Studies

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“…There are many important questions to ask about the ways in which academic life, research management infrastructure, and institutional strategies are changing as universities become more attuned to global projects spanning both countries and institutions, including those in the developing world, multinational corporations and transnational civil society organisations. It has already been observed that one consequence of these shifts is that universities have become an integral part of wider knowledge networks (Faist, 2008;Obamba, 2013). The final section of this paper suggests that it is in this wider context that we can begin to understand the new institutional emphasis on identifying and mobilising diasporic academics.…”

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Globalising knowledge networks: Universities, diaspora strategies, and academic intermediaries

Larner

2015

Geoforum

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“…It offers opportunity for the development and implementation of FM standards and plans at district, state and federal levels. The education component is essential in raising the awareness of FM threat among the community [7], while research and partnership provides opportunity to improve the structural and non-structural measures in FM [8].…”

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Managing Flood in the Context of Education, Research and Partnership in Malaysia

Maidin¹,

Othman²,

Yahya³

2019

JUBPAS

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Several structural and non-structural measures and approaches have been implemented by the Malaysian government in order to overcome and alleviate the flood disaster. To date, Education, Partnership and Research have been identified as crucial components in forming an effective Flood Management system in Malaysia. This argument has been supported by many public and private institutions worldwide. As such, the standards and plans can be developed and implemented at district, state and federal levels. The spirits of Hyogo and Sendai were used as the guiding principles. Semi-structured interviews with several responding agencies were conducted for data collection. The findings indicated that less emphasis was given to the roles of components such as Education, Partnership and Research in Flood Management. The aim of this paper is to propose an integrated system for storing, disseminating and analyzing information pertaining to Education, Partnership and Research.

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Transnational knowledge partnerships: new calculus and politics in Africa’s development

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

Negotiating Educational Choices in Uncertain Transnational Space: South Asian Diaspora in the United Arab Emirates

Negotiating Educational Choices in Uncertain Transnational Space: South Asian Diaspora in the United Arab Emirates

Globalising knowledge networks: Universities, diaspora strategies, and academic intermediaries

Managing Flood in the Context of Education, Research and Partnership in Malaysia

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