Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/d9HsehV International Mobility and Educational Desire Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore By: Peidong Yang Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9781137591425, 1137591420 eText ISBN: 9781137591432, 1137591439 Copyright year: 2016 Format: EPUB Available from $ 69.99 USD SKU 9781137591432 This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” students’ educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore society’s concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.
