The well-researched positive selectivity of international student mobility (ISM) participants with regard to parental education and social class identifies ISM as a strategy of distinction in times of a massification of tertiary education. Research has noted that returnees profit from the distinction their education gives them in the local labour market. However, studies from several countries suggest that about half of international students do not return home after graduation. How is social status transferred in these cases? The occupational statuses of ISM returnees and non-returnees do not differ significantly. Blau and Duncan's status attainment model for returnees finds higher similarity between the occupational status of graduates and their fathers as well as a higher explained variance when compared with the model for non-returnees. This suggests that some capitals of a graduate's family are not internationally transferable and complicates the notion of ISM as a strategy of intergenerational transfer of social status.

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国际流动学生的代际社会流动：海归与非海归相比的地位获得

国际学生流动 (ISM) 参与者在父母教育和社会阶层方面的深入研究表明，ISM 是高等教育大众化时代的一种区分策略。研究表明，海归受益于他们的教育在当地劳动力市场上给他们带来的优势。然而，来自多个国家的研究表明，大约一半的国际学生毕业后没有回国。在这些情况下，社会地位如何转移？ISM 海归和非海归的职业地位没有显着差异。Blau 和 Duncan 的海归状态成就模型发现，与非海归模型相比，毕业生与父亲的职业地位相似度更高，解释方差也更高。