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Distinctive and comparative places : alternative narratives of distinction within international student mobility

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Date
03/2017
Author
Prazeres, Laura
Findlay, Allan
McCollum, David
Sanders, Nikola
Musil, Elizabeth
Krisjane, Zaiga
Apsite-Berina, Elina
Funder
Economic & Social Research Council
Grant ID
ES/K007394/1
Keywords
Comparative places
International education
International student mobility
Distinction
Mobility capital
Mobility aspiration
H Social Sciences
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
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Abstract
Moving beyond the ‘world-class’ institutional model of international student mobility, this paper examines alternative narratives of distinction relating to place of study. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with international students at universities in the UK, Austria and Latvia, we illustrate how students inside and outside mainstream reputable higher education institutions narrate and reconfigure markers of distinction to validate their international mobility and location of study, in part to compete with peers at other (more prestigious) institutions. We demonstrate the importance of lifestyle and experiential places within a global differentiated higher education landscape and argue that many students engage in comparative narratives of place of study to authorise the symbolic capital associated with international education. The findings also consider how experiential places and mobility capital are used for distinction not only during educational mobility but within post-study aspirations.
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Prazeres , L , Findlay , A , McCollum , D , Sanders , N , Musil , E , Krisjane , Z & Apsite-Berina , E 2017 , ' Distinctive and comparative places : alternative narratives of distinction within international student mobility ' , Geoforum , vol. 80 , pp. 114-122 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.003
Publication
Geoforum
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.003
ISSN
0016-7185
Type
Journal article
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.003
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17079

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