Voluntarily exiled? Korean state's cultural politics of young adults' social belonging and Korean students' exile to a US community college/ Sujung Kim.

Autor/in	Kim, Sujung
Titel	Voluntarily exiled? Korean state's cultural politics of young adults' social belonging and Korean students' exile to a US community college/ Sujung Kim.
Quelle	In: Higher education, 76 (2018) 2, S. 353-367Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560; 1573-174X
DOI	10.1007/s10734-017-0212-3
Schlagwörter	Lehre; Auslandsbeziehungen; Studium; Hochschule; Student; Ausland; Korea; USA
Abstract	This study examines the complicated interlink between the Korean state's neoliberal identity politics and working- and lower middle-class Korean students' study abroad as a form of voluntarily exile. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis and a 14-month ethnographic study, this study discusses how these students' decisions to study abroad are inextricably intertwined with the authoritarian Korean state's neoliberal political-economic strategies of pushing out seemingly less-profitable citizens (namely, students and graduates of low-ranking 4-year institutions). This study also examines students' strategies for simultaneously resisting and conforming to this neoliberal ethos. For working-class and lower middle-class Korean community college students, study abroad means a deviation from the normal educational and life trajectories in Korea while, at the same time, their education in the USA opens a pathway for reentering the Korean neoliberal system as more profitable citizens. Their being recognized as members of a profitable workforce indicates their achievement of neoliberal normalcy. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
Erfasst von	Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Bonn
Update	2019/1