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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author KIM, Sujung
Title Voluntarily exiled? : Korean state’s cultural politics of young adults’ social belonging and Korean students’ exile to a US community college/ Sujung Kim
Publication year 2018
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 76 (2018) 2, S. 353 - 367
Inventory number 47280
Keywords Ausland : Korea : Studenten, Studium, Lehre ; Ausland : Korea : Auslandsbeziehungen ; Ausland : USA : einzelne Hochschulen ; Ausland : USA : Auslandsbeziehungen
Abstract This study examines the complicated interlink between the Korean state’s 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 state’s 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