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The people in between : education, desire, and South Koreans in contemporary China
The individual desire on education is induced by and reflects China’s national ambition in pursuit of educational internationalization and Korea’s compulsion to incorporate overseas nationals into its rhetoric of globalisation. Both nation-states confer political privileges on the children of overseas Korean nationals in their educational trajectories. As a result, individuals are empowered to creatively comply with, tactically appropriate, or, simply discard educational arrangements by the states. Paradoxically, they simultaneously encounter regulatory, socio-economic, and...Show moreThis dissertation is an ethnographic research of three groups of people from South Korea to China -- parents, students and educational agents -- focusing on their ‘greed’, expectation, anxiety, and dread regarding education. Examining this sheds light on the subjectivities of the people who are confronted with their structural positioning as being sojourners from South Korea and foreigners in China.
The individual desire on education is induced by and reflects China’s national ambition in pursuit of educational internationalization and Korea’s compulsion to incorporate overseas nationals into its rhetoric of globalisation. Both nation-states confer political privileges on the children of overseas Korean nationals in their educational trajectories. As a result, individuals are empowered to creatively comply with, tactically appropriate, or, simply discard educational arrangements by the states. Paradoxically, they simultaneously encounter regulatory, socio-economic, and geographical constraints as they reside in China and make plans for further migration.
This thesis demonstrates that ethnic solidarity is restrictive in helping Koreans obtain opportunities that they expect to have. Koreans are increasingly scattered depending on their social-economic statuses and set out to merge with non-ethnics. This trait offers a significant insight into the nuanced tendency of the Chinese immigration policy.
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- All authors
- Ma, X.
- Supervisor
- Pieke, F.N.
- Co-supervisor
- Ceuster, K. de
- Committee
- Schrover, M.; Lo, A.; Xiang, B.
- Qualification
- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
- Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) , Faculty of Humanities , Leiden University
- Date
- 2018-09-26
- ISBN
- 9789493019980
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- CSC (China Scholarship Council) KF (Korea Foundation)