International Student Connectedness and Identity: Transnational Perspectives

Ly Thi Tran · Catherine Gomes

2016년 11월 · Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education 6권 · Springer

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This book focuses on the interrelationship between international student connectedness and identity from transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives. It addresses the core issues surrounding international students’ physical and virtual connectedness to people, places and communities as well as the conditions that shape their transnational connectedness and identity formation. Further, it analyses the nature, diversity and complexity of international student connectedness and identity development across different national, social and cultural boundaries.

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Ly Thi Tran is a senior lecturer at Deakin University’s School of Education in Australia and an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) fellow. Ly’s research and publications focus on international students, student mobility, international vocational education and training, pedagogy and curriculum in international education and Vietnamese higher education. She has been awarded three grants on international student mobility and staff professional development in international education by the Australian Research Council. Ly’s book entitled Teaching international students in vocational education: New pedagogical approaches won the 2014 International Education Association of Australia’s Excellence Award for best Practice/Innovation in International Education.
Catherine Gomes is a senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne and recently completed an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award) fellowship. Her work covers migration, transnationalism and diasporas, particularly transient migration in Australia and Singapore with special interest in international students, their well-being, their social networks and their media and communication use. Catherine is founding editor of Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Intellect Books) and leader of the RMIT Migration and Digital Media Research Lab at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). Her recent books include Multiculturalism through the Lens: A Guide to Ethnic and Migrant Anxieties in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2015), The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media (Anthem Press, 2016) and Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Catherine has also written on identity, gender, ethnicity and race in Chinese cinemas.