Transnational work and workplace as infrastructure: Sino-British international branch campuses and academic mobilities

Liu, Tianfeng; Lin, Weiqiang

doi:10.1080/17450101.2017.1292782

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“…Internationalization has played an important role in shaping higher education across the world over the last two decades. With the internationalization of education, the rapid growth of international branch campuses (IBCs) has attracted a great deal of academic attention (Healey, 2016; Liu & Lin, 2017; Wilkins & Huisman, 2015). An IBC is defined asan entity that is owned, at least in part, by a foreign higher education provider; operated in the name of the foreign education provider; and provides an entire academic program, substantially on site, leading to a degree awarded by the foreign education provider.…”

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Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Choice of an International Branch Campus: A Case Study

2019

Journal of Studies in International Education

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With the internationalization of education, studying at international branch campuses (IBCs) is becoming a popular choice in China. Taking Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE)—Surrey International Institute as an example, this article explores the choice criteria used by Chinese students enrolled at an IBC. Based on auto-ethnography and 46 in-depth semi-structured interviews, this study found that students’ choice of this particular IBC was influenced by personal reasons, institution image, program evaluation, and city effect. The study further proposes a model of factors that may influence Chinese students’ choice of an IBC. As the IBCs are run as for-profit ventures in an increasingly competitive environment, the marketing strategies to attract Chinese students to study at IBCs based on the findings are also discussed in this article.

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Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Choice of an International Branch Campus: A Case Study

2019

Journal of Studies in International Education

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“…The practice of science may look and feel very different, requiring a period of enculturation; an enculturation that is intertwined with but not confined to the personal challenges of moving to a new country. Existing research in international mobility has noted experiences of isolation or 'homelessness' (Balaban 2018;Liu & Lin 2017;Morley et al 2018). Future research might build on this by exploring how such emotions relate not just to the move to a new cultural context but to a new set of epistemic practices and norms.…”

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“…There has been particular attention to the so-called 'push' and 'pull' factors that encourage researchers to move, from the comparative dynanism of different research systems to life stage (Appelt et al 2015;Børing et al 2015;Flanagan 2015), but research has also explored the wider implications and meanings of mobility. Researcher experiences have been one key focus: mobility has been described in terms of 'homelessness' (Balaban 2018), as a sense that 'the grass is greener on the other side' (Sabharwal & Varma 2018), or as involving 'otherness' and isolation (Liu & Lin 2017;Morley et al 2018). The promotion of international mobility has also attracted critique based on the figure of the academic that such mobility generally assumes or produces (Ackers 2008;Jöns 2011;Leeman 2010).…”

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Epistemic Living Spaces, International Mobility, and Local Variation in Scientific Practice

Davies

2019

Minerva

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This article explores local variations in scientific practice through the lens of scientists' international mobility. Its aim is twofold: to explore how the notion of epistemic living spaces may be mobilised as a tool for systematically exploring differences in scientific practice across locations, and to contribute to literature on scientific mobility. Using material from an interview study with scientists with experience of international mobility, and epistemic living spaces as an analytical frame, the paper describes a set of aspects of life in science that interviewees described as being different in different places. These axes of variation were: embodied routines of research; resource levels and salaries; daily or longer-term rhythms of scientific life (and their relation to rhythms of home or family); 'efficiency' and how work time is used; degree of hierarchy; the nature of social interactions between colleagues; the purposes of research; the social and interpersonal organisation of knowledge production; and the scale or ambition of research. In presenting an exploratory overview of these variations, the article points the way for future comparative investigation of epistemic cultures through studies of international mobility.

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“…1. There is evidence that cross-border labour markets are also being constructed for skilled labour, often beginning with student migration (Beech 2017;Harvey et al 2017;Liu and Lin 2017;Liu-Farrer 2011;Liu-Farrer and Shire 2020;Thieme 2017). 2.…”

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The social order of transnational migration markets

Shire

2020

Global Networks

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The 'infrastructural turn' in labour migration studies has shifted attention away from the experiences of migrants to the role of public authorities and private actors in facilitating migrant mobilities. As part of a broader turn towards studying transnational mobilities rather than immigration and settlement, this research shows that the formalization of transnational labour migration has made mobility both freer and more difficult. In this article, I reinterpret mobility infrastructures from a market sociological perspective. Transnational labour migration, I argue, is more clearly conceptualized as the organized 'making' of cross-border labour markets. Moreover, from a market sociological perspective the construction of cross-border labour exchanges is at the same time a question of how the uncertainties inherent in market exchanges are coordinated by market actors. In its focus on how exchanges across borders are possible at all, a market sociological perspective makes note of the conflicting interests, power imbalances and uncertainties that must be handled for a social order of transnational migration markets to emerge. An important question concerns whether alternatives to the less regulated neo-liberal market order that is evident in most migration corridors are possible and under what conditions. With reference to the challenges facing the regulation of cross-border labour markets, in my conclusion, I map an agenda for future research.

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Transnational work and workplace as infrastructure: Sino-British international branch campuses and academic mobilities

Cited by 27 publications

References 27 publications

Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Choice of an International Branch Campus: A Case Study

Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Choice of an International Branch Campus: A Case Study

Epistemic Living Spaces, International Mobility, and Local Variation in Scientific Practice

The social order of transnational migration markets

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