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Gender Politics and Global Householding in International Student/Scholar Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2010

Minjeong Kim
Affiliation:
Virginia Tech

Extract

Global householding encompasses a variety of (re)configurations of family and household arrangements due to people on the move across national boundaries (Douglass 2006). My essay focuses on global householding associated with educational migration, and in particular, the flow of students and scholars from Asia to the United States.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2010

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