Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
China Anthropology Colloquium Series: Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children
Professor Vanessa Fong will lead a discussion on her research of Chinese children who study abroad in many parts of the world.
When:
April 18, 2008 12:00am
For other articles on study abroad, click here.
Vanessa Fong - Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University
Department of Anthrolopogy
Yale University
April 18, 2008
12:00 PM
Citizens of the developed world can enjoy developed world privileges in almost any country-even if they're not citizens of that country or even of any developed country. My talk examines how and why only-children who grew up in the People's Republic of China tried to become such developed world citizens through study abroad. I look at how they made decisions about transnational migration, and how their decisions illustrate how the global neoliberal system shapes and is shaped by the experiences, agency, and lifecourses of individuals. My research is based on 33 months of participant observation between 1997 and 2007 in Dalian, China, and on 13 months of participant observation between 2003 and 2006, among 16 of the youth I met in China who went on to study in Australia, Britain, Ireland, or Malta, as well as 85 of their roommates, classmates, and co-workers in those countries, most of whom had also recently left China to study abroad.
Please register for this event via email to minhua.ling@yale.edu by Wednesday, April 16.
For more information: eastasian.studies@yale.edu
Other articles on study abroad:
Young people volunteer to "Go West" | Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children | The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States | Chinese language study is rising fast
Cost:
Free
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Phone Number:
203-432-3426
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