Gendering international student migration: an Indian case-study

ABSTRACT

Despite the mainstreaming of gender perspectives into migration research, very few attempts have been made to gender international student migration. This paper poses three questions about Indian students who study abroad. Are there gender differences in their motivations? How do they negotiate their gendered everyday lives when abroad? Is the return to India shaped by gender relations? An online survey of Indian study-abroad students (n?=?157), and in-depth interviews with Indian students in Toronto (n?=?22), returned students in New Delhi (n?=?21), and with parents of students abroad (n?=?22) help to provide answers. Conceptually, the paper draws on a ‘gendered geographies of power’ framework and on student migration as an embodied process subject to ‘matrices of (un)intelligibility’. We find minimal gender-related differences in motivations to study abroad, except that male students are drawn from a wider social background. However, whilst abroad, both male and female Indian students face challenges in performing their gendered identities. The Indian patrifocal family puts greater pressure on males to return; females face greater challenges upon return.     

College-conocimiento: toward an interdisciplinary college choice framework for Latinx students

This paper builds upon Perna’s college choice model by integrating Anzaldúa’s theory of conocimiento to propose an interdisciplinary college choice framework for Latinx students. Using previous literature, this paper proposes college-conocimiento as a framework that contextualizes Latinx student college choices within the inequitable distribution of institutional resources in the K-12 system. In particular, the framework centers on the notion that a lack of adequate college guidance can influence a cyclical Latinx college choice process. College-conocimiento is defined as a serpentine process where Latinx students reflect on the college information that they receive, in relation to their intersectional identities when preparing for college. The pathway of college-conocimiento entails seven cyclical spaces and aims for students to develop a reflective college consciousness, exemplified through self-advocacy and supporting peers with the college choice process. This paper challenges college choice as a sequential process by noting that students can repeat stages as needed.     

Differential predictors of academic achievement: individual and familial factor interactions with community poverty

We present an analysis of the contexts within which adolescents graduate from high school and enroll in college. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health show that adolescents’ school engagement, maternal academic monitoring, and community poverty significantly interact to explain differences in high school graduation and college enrollment rates (n?=?7100). To examine this association, we performed weighted logistic regression analyses, controlling for gender, race, block level unemployment, and block level median income. Findings suggest that protective factors can help youth overcome the challenges associated with community poverty and achieve academically in low and medium levels of poverty, but that youth in high-poverty contexts may need more resources to reach higher levels of academic attainment.     

论大学教学中的文化意识与文化自觉

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浅析微博问政在党的执政能力建设中的二重性作用

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马克思主义幸福观对独立学院幸福观教育的指导意义

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基于心理契约的民办高校辅导员管理策略研究

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浅析大班环境下大学生英语自主学习能力的培养

文章从自主学习理论出发,重点分析了大班环境下培养学生英语自主学习能力的策略。     

高校教师信息素养评价体系研究

本文将在综合分析信息素养的发展历程和研究进展基础上深入探讨高校教师信息素养评价体系的现实课题,并期望未来研究采用实证定量研究对其信度和效度进行验证。     

试论健美操运动对大学生树立终身体育观的影响

高校体育作为学校体育教育的最高层次和最后环节,是学校体育与体育社会化的转折点和学与用的衔接点。因此对大学生来说终身体育教育是我国高校体育教育的重要课题之一。健美操运动不仅能全面锻炼身体的各个部位,更能培养大学生自觉运动的能力和习惯,从而影响他们,使之形成终身体育的观念。