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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author
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KIM, Sujung
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Title
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Voluntarily exiled? : Korean states cultural politics of young adults social belonging and Korean students exile to a US community college/ Sujung Kim |
Publication year
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2018 |
Source/Footnote
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In: Higher education. - 76 (2018) 2, S. 353 - 367
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Inventory number
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47280 |
Keywords
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Ausland : Korea : Studenten, Studium, Lehre ; Ausland : Korea : Auslandsbeziehungen ; Ausland : USA : einzelne Hochschulen ; Ausland : USA : Auslandsbeziehungen |
Abstract
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This study examines the complicated interlink between the Korean states neoliberal identity politics and working- and lower middle-class Korean students study abroad as a form of voluntarily exile. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis and a 14-month ethnographic study, this study discusses how these students decisions to study abroad are inextricably intertwined with the authoritarian Korean states neoliberal political-economic strategies of pushing out seemingly less-profitable citizens (namely, students and graduates of low-ranking 4-year institutions). This study also examines students strategies for simultaneously resisting and conforming to this neoliberal ethos. For working-class and lower middle-class Korean community college students, study abroad means a deviation from the normal educational and life trajectories in Korea while, at the same time, their education in the USA opens a pathway for reentering the Korean neoliberal system as more profitable citizens. Their being recognized as members of a profitable workforce indicates their achievement of neoliberal normalcy. (HRK / Abstract übernommen) Kim, Suijung, E-Mail: kim480@illinois.edu |