Unpacking distinction within mobility: <scp>S</scp>ocial prestige and international students

Prazeres, Laura

doi:10.1002/psp.2190

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“…Understood in this way, scholars would move in search of higher wages and better career prospects and to make the most of whatever human capital they already possess. Yet academic mobility is also an opportunity to acquire social, cultural, and symbolic capital (e.g., through the creation of new networks or gains in terms of reputation; Bahna, ; Bauder, Hannan, & Lujan, ; Prazeres, ). This paper explores the reasons behind the migration of a group of Spanish and Italian academics now living and working in Mexico with a view to bringing into focus the role of economic/labour and career‐related reasons in migration decisions.…”

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“Knowledge migrants” or “economic migrants”? Patterns of academic mobility and migration from Southern Europe to Mexico

Mendoza

Staniscia

Guitart

2019

Population Space and Place

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Because mobility has been described as a key element of the academic habitus and a well‐established norm in scientific life, people moving within academia have been generally considered to be “knowledge migrants” and “talent migrants.” Indeed, the literature rarely takes a labour market perspective when analysing academic mobility. However, Southern European academia is largely characterised by challenging working conditions, low wages, and a lack of fair competition for positons, all of which negatively affecting job prospects. Based on 25 in‐depth interviews, this paper explores the reasons behind the migration of a group of Spanish and Italian academics in Mexico with a view to bringing into focus the role of economic/labour and career‐related reasons in migration decisions. We find that their experiences fall along three main academic trajectories, which are distinguished by the stage in the participants' careers at which they decided to migrate and the channels by which they entered Mexican academia. Common to all three groups is the identification of the economic crisis and a lack of institutional support as strong motivating factors in their decision. Underlying this is the question of whether the studied group is best viewed as “knowledge”/“talent” migrants who have followed certain institutional channels or “economic migrants” who are somehow pushed to work abroad by the lack of good employment in their countries of origin. The paper also challenges mainstream ideas about academic mobility, in the sense that the literature has not considered the attractive power of universities/research centres located in the Global South.

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“Knowledge migrants” or “economic migrants”? Patterns of academic mobility and migration from Southern Europe to Mexico

Mendoza

Staniscia

Guitart

2019

Population Space and Place

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“…These characteristics make them less likely to donate to the university (Gearhart et al, 2019) but also mean that they participate less in crowdfunding activities. Conversely, "non-UK ratio" (the percentage of non-UK students) refers to students whose families can afford for them to study abroad and at universities that tend to be prestigious and not lacking in research and teaching resources (Prazeres, 2019).…”

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Crowdfunding in higher education: evidence from UK Universities

2021

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In contemporary higher education systems, funding is increasingly associated with performativity, assessment, and competition, and universities are seeking different forms of financing their activities. One of these new forms is crowdfunding, a tool enabled by the digitalization of finance. Based on data from the UK higher education system and two crowdfunding platforms, our study adds to previous crowdfunding research in academic settings that have, thus far, focused on research projects, and assesses who is participating, their level of engagement and the resources they have gathered from crowdfunding. Our findings show that crowdfunding is used more by universities that have fewer resources. These universities are more teaching-oriented, less prestigious, and have a student body largely derived from lower socio-economic sectors of society. The popularity of crowdfunding in this type of university suggests that crowdfunding may enhance the democratization of higher education funding. However, as optimal crowdfunding participation and engagement requires high academic-to-student ratios and total-staff-to-academic-staff ratios, universities facing a greater financial precarity may be disadvantaged in their access to and engagement with crowdfunding. Differentials between part-time and full-time student ratios may exacerbate this disadvantage. Our study suggests that crowdfunding is a viable means of obtaining additional financing for learning activities complementing the fundings from other sources, but raises concerns about the use of crowdfunding as a burden to academics and students to find resources to meet learning experiences that ought to be provided by universities in the first place.

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“…Cecilia’s speech, body language, and reactions to the world around her always conveyed confidence and aspirations for the future. Specifically, aspirations to one day embody the symbolic capital required to be distinct and ‘different’ from those around her (Bourdieu 1984 ; Prazeres 2019 ). Such narratives were very much in the singular and focused on herself as an individual.…”

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“Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London

Rodan

Huijsmans²

2020

Eur J Dev Res

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Drawing on 18 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this paper brings into dialogue empirical material from young, highly educated Portuguese migrants in London, theoretical work on desire in migration studies and sociological approaches to theorising aspirations. The paper argues that young migrants' narratives of migration shed important light on the working of aspirations in the processes of becoming through migration. Such orientations towards the future are shaped by young migrants' engagements with doxic and habituated logics producing aspirations. The analytical lens of desire illuminates the role of discursive self-positioning, emotions, and the embodiment of lived experiences of migration in the enacting of particular migrant subjectivities and associated aspirations. In a context in which competing discourses of generation constitute important registers of meaning about migration and aspirations, mobilising generation discourses is a key temporal practice in young migrants' constructions of narratives of migration.

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Unpacking distinction within mobility: Social prestige and international students

Cited by 22 publications

References 41 publications

“Knowledge migrants” or “economic migrants”? Patterns of academic mobility and migration from Southern Europe to Mexico

“Knowledge migrants” or “economic migrants”? Patterns of academic mobility and migration from Southern Europe to Mexico

Crowdfunding in higher education: evidence from UK Universities

“Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London

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