ABSTRACT

A recurrent narrative in the recent literature on international student mobility is that overseas study is motivated by a desire for onward international mobility or oriented towards specific goals such as an international career. However, the way in which transnational mobility after graduation is perceived and experienced by international students is largely unexplored. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 55 current and graduated international students from three UK universities, this paper employs Bourdieu’s central concepts of habitus and capital to explore differentiated mobility aspirations and experiences. In so doing, this article nuances, and calls for a need to problematise, the meaning and power associated with post-study mobility across borders.

摘要

最近关于国际学生流动性的文献中反复出现的叙述是，海外学习是出于对进一步国际流动性的渴望或以国际职业等特定目标为导向的。然而，国际学生感知和体验毕业后跨国流动的方式在很大程度上是未知的。本文通过对来自三所英国大学的 55 名在读和已毕业的国际学生的深入访谈，运用布迪厄的惯习和资本的核心概念来探索差异化的流动愿望和体验。在这样做的过程中，本文提出了细微差别，并呼吁需要对与跨界学习后流动相关的意义和力量进行问题化。