International student mobilities and voices in the Asia-Pacific : letters to coronavirus / / editor : Yi'En Cheng

• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer Nature : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.1962414
• Soggetto topico: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Influence; Student mobility; Student mobility - Pacific Area; Estudiants estrangers; Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-
• Soggetto geografico: Pacífic (Regió)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): ChengYi'En
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- International Students Displaced, Vulnerabilized, and Activated -- Scope, Aims, and Contributions -- Bridging International Student Voices and Analyses -- Regional Focus on the Asia-Pacific -- Theoretical Underpinnings -- Organization of Book -- Part 1: Regimes-Borders, Norms, and Divisions -- Part 2: Experiences-Emotions, Velocity, and Habits -- Part 3: Aspirations-Suspension and Freedom -- References -- Part I Regimes: Borders, Norms, and Divisions -- 2 Letters on Borders -- A Letter to the Coronavirus: The Border that Connects and Divides -- Invisibility and Immobility: International Students as Afterthoughts in the Pandemic -- 3 The New Borders of Covid-19: An International Student Perspective -- Introduction -- (Emerging) Borders of the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Legislative Border Frameworks -- Bordered Relationships -- Borders in Learning -- Borders, Inequality, and Precarities of the Pandemic -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Letters on Norms -- We Are Not Done Yet -- Navigating Norms of Life and Study in the Time of COVID-19: A Queer Doctoral Student's Narrative -- A Married Queer Couple Locked in Two Countries -- A Doctoral Student's New Life Routine -- Final Remarks -- Education the New (Ab)Normal -- Notes -- 5 Visible Norms: COVID-19 and the Challenge to Global Higher Education Practices -- Norms of Educational Practices -- Norms of Mobility -- Norms of Expectations -- The New Normal? -- References -- 6 Letters on Divisions -- Face-Changing COVID -- The Missing 'Sense of Shared Calamity' Among the Youth -- Notes -- 7 COVIDivides Within CORONAtionalism: International Student Experiences of Racial Othering and Nationalist Distancing -- Introduction -- Division and Globalization -- COVIDivides. ; Development and Class Divides -- Ethnic and Cultural Divides -- Education and Digital Divides -- International Students as Intersections of Multi-Scalar Inequalities -- Displacement: International Students as the "Racialised Other" -- Nationalist Distancing: International Students as Their Own Nationals -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Experiences: Emotions, Velocity and Habits -- 8 Letters on Emotions -- To Leave, or to Stay, That is a Question -- Living with Real Uncertainty: A Wave of Emotions of a Final Year Ph.D. Student Amid COVID-19 -- Crown Trials -- February 2020-First Hearing -- April 2020-Second Hearing -- July 2020-Recess -- December 2020-Judgment -- Oh COVID-19!: A New Era of International Education Marked by the Internet, Camera, Speaker, and Microphone -- 9 Navigating Desire, Despondency, Disconnectedness, and Disillusionment: International Students' Emotional Turmoil Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic -- Anchoring ISM Emotions: Educational Desire and Its Spatial-Temporal Disruption -- Emotional Turmoil Unpacked -- Educational Desire and Despondency -- Familial and Social Disconnectedness -- Self-Doubt and Disillusionment -- Coping Strategies: Emotional Labor and Beyond -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 10 Letters on Velocity -- Zoomin' Across the Pacific Ocean -- Pause and Ponder: Retrograde Grading in Higher Education -- Note -- 11 Learning on Pause? The Ambivalent and Conflicting Velocities of International Student Mobilities in Pandemic Times -- Introduction -- Pausing to Reflect on Velocity -- Contradictory Velocities of Higher Education -- (Re)Zooming Study Across the Pacific -- The Two-Body Problem -- Re-Assessing Higher Education -- Moving Forward -- Notes -- References -- 12 Letters on Habits -- Thank You Letter to the Crowned Teacher. ; Adapt and Carry on: Understand the Changing of International Student Daily Habits Under the Pandemic -- Reshaping My Life During the Pandemic: How I Have Built a Newborn Relationship with My "Family" -- 13 Pandemic Recalibration of Habits -- Introduction -- Pandemic Recalibration of Habits Among International Students -- Spatial Adjustments and Relocation of Social Time -- Normalization of Digital Communicative Habits -- Physical-Mental Well-Being and Agency -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Part III Aspirations: Suspension and Freedom -- 14 Letters on Suspension -- Planning to Unplan: A Reflection of Learning and Living in the Time of Coronavirus -- Suspended There and Back Again: Ambivalent Meditations and Lifeways of the Ph.D. Fieldwork at Home -- 15 Temporal Suspension, Precarity, and Agency Among International Students During the COVID-19 -- Introduction -- Times, Temporalities, and ISM: Temporal Suspension, Precarity, and Agency -- Suspended Times/Temporalities: Stillness, Waiting, and Uncertainty -- Precarious Times/Temporalities: Vulnerability, Exclusion, and Instability -- Temporal Agency -- Immobility as a Strategy -- Positive Waiting -- Conclusion -- References -- 16 Letters on Freedom -- "You Guys Were OK Before the Pandemic?" Coping with Mental Health Disorders as an International Student in Singapore During COVID-19 -- "To Go or not to Go?": Freedom in Flux -- 17 "Freedom in Flux" and "Were You Guys OK Before the Pandemic?": A Conversation on International Students, Academic Mobilities, Higher Education, and Society at Large -- Introduction -- Freedom in Flux -- Artemio -- Le-Ha -- Artemio -- Le-Ha -- Were You Guys OK Before the Pandemic? -- Le-Ha -- Artemio -- Le-Ha -- Artemio -- Le-Ha -- Final Considerations and Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific
• ISBN: 9789811936753; 9789811936746
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910633923803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II