The Rest of the Story: A Qualitative Study of Chinese and Indian Women’s Graduate Education Migration
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Tamara Yakaboski
Previous migration discourse views educational migration through narrowly defined push-pull forces, which ignores overseas graduate education as a path for maneuvering through restrictive gendered and cultural experiences. The purpose of this exploratory research is to expand migration research and view women’s migration decisions as employing active, personal agency. The women’s narratives express the underlying influences of family, class, and environment combined with a personal rejection of societal biases and discrimination (gender, age, and political) for a pursuit of freedom via higher education.
Based on in-depth interviews and a feminist framework, this study presents and compares the migration influences for thirteen Chinese and Indian women. These women migrated to the United States for graduate education and later transitioned into faculty positions in science and engineering. This research has implications for expanding migration theory and scholarship.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editor's Note
- Editors’ Notes
- Article
- Cultural Strengths to Persevere: Native American Women in Higher Education
- The Rest of the Story: A Qualitative Study of Chinese and Indian Women’s Graduate Education Migration
- Refocusing College Choice: Women’s Reflections on Their Postsecondary Education Choices
- Strategies to Support Women in the Academic Physical Sciences: Reflections on Experiences and Efforts
- Women in Student Affairs: Past, Present, and Future Leaders
- Book Review
- Book Review. Stonewall’s Legacy: Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Students in Higher Education
- Book Review. Crossing Borders: International Women Students in American Higher Education
- Book Review. Women and Success: Professors in the UK Academy
