Chinese international students in a Canadian private secondary school: becoming flexible citizens?. Issue 6 (18th August 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wu, Xi; Tarc, Paul
• Is Part Of: Compare. Volume 51:Issue 6(2021)
• Page Start: 901
• Page End: 919
• Publication Date: 2021-08-18
• Subjects: Canadian secondary schools -- Chinese international students -- capital accumulation -- ethnography -- flexible citizenship -- transnational space; Comparative education -- Periodicals; 370.9
• DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2019.1684242
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0305-7925

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study employs the notion of 'flexible citizenship, ' to examine how national and transnational forces and discursive logics mediate Chinese international secondary school students' educational routes and life trajectories. It draws upon a larger ethnographic research programme that followed 11 Chinese students in a Canadian international secondary school across a period of 14 months. Our current findings affirm that neoliberal logics mediated by (trans)national cultural forces shape how participants navigate their lives. In employing flexible citizenship as a lens, we seek to support more comprehensive understandings of Chinese international students as agentic and socially regulated citizens-in-the-making in their transnational routes. More comprehensive understandings, in turn, elicit pedagogical insights on how study abroad might better support the education and wellbeing of (Chinese) students studying internationally.