4 School Choice in the Global Schoolhouse: How Korean Education Migrants Calibrate “Success” in Singapore

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Illustrations x
5. Introduction: South Korea’s Education Exodus History, Context, and Motivations 1
6. PART I The Lay of the Land
7. 1 Early Study Abroad: A Survey and Demographic Portrait 25
8. 2 The Domestication of South Korean Early Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium 40
9. PART II Navigating Class and the Global
10. 3 Going to School in New Zealand: Hopes and Limits in a Transnational Social Field 63
11. 4 School Choice in the Global Schoolhouse: How Korean Education Migrants Calibrate “Success” in Singapore 85
12. 5 The “Other Half” Goes Abroad: The Perils of Public Schooling in Singapore 103
13. PART III The Dilemmas of Global Citizenship
14. 6 Going Global in Comfort: South Korean Education Exodus in Singapore 125
15. 7 From FOB to Cool: Transnational Migrant Students in Toronto and the Styling of Global Linguistic Capital 147
16. 8 Early Wave Returnees in Seoul: The Dilemmas of Modernity and Morality 168
17. PART IV Managing Early Study Abroad
18. 9 The Legal and Religious Citizenship of Korean Transnational Mothers 191
19. 10 “We Are More Racist”: Navigating Race and Racism in (Korean) America 209
20. 11 Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad Students 228
21. PART V The Field Speaks
22. 12 Coming to Terms with Our “Asian Invasion”: A Practitioner’s Perspective on the Korean Education Exodus in a Christian School Setting 257
23. 13 My Life in the States, Alone 270
24. Bibliography 291
25. Contributors 325
26. Index 331