Despite the rapid growth in international schooling worldwide, little attention has been paid to understanding why parents choose this kind of schooling and what they believe their choice has meant for their child. Most saliently, the extant literature has not considered the views of Arab parents, although a number of GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries are seen as hubs of international schooling. This study explores international school choice in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Drawing on survey and interview data from Bahraini parents whose children attend international schools in Bahrain, this paper contributes to school choice literature, exploring what the parents see as the consequences of their choice. The concepts of acculturation strategies (Berry, 2003; Berry, 2005) and school choice as a technology of subjectification (Leyton & Rojas, 2017) are used to understand the social meaning of these parental decisions.

尽管全球范围内的国际学校教育迅速增长，但很少有人关注了解父母为什么选择这种学校以及他们认为自己的选择对孩子意味着什么。最明显的是，尽管许多海湾合作委员会（海湾合作委员会）国家被视为国际教育的枢纽，但现有文献并未考虑阿拉伯父母的观点。这项研究探索了巴林王国的国际学校选择。借鉴巴林父母的调查和访谈数据，巴林父母的子女在巴林的国际学校就读，本文为择校文献做出了贡献，探讨了父母认为他们选择父母的后果。适应策略的概念（Berry，2003； Berry，2005）和学校选择作为一种主观化技术（Leyton＆Rojas，