International Mobility and Educational Desire ― Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore

This book examines the Singapore government's controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” students' educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore society's concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.

Peidong Yang is Postdoctoral Fellow at the School ofHumanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University,Singapore.? He received ?his doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include education and migration in theChina-Singapore contexts as well as Internet and media in contemporary China.