Asian Educational Mobilities: A Comparative Study of International Migration of Japanese and Chinese Higher Education Students

这个项目将对亚洲学生的流动进行系统和比较的分析--这是教育移民中最激烈的流动之一。我们将对教育流动性和终身课程抱负和形成之间的关系以及它们的区域动态做出新的解释。我们的研究设计具有创新性：我们建议对在英国和德国大学就读的具有代表性的日本和中国学生、留在国内接受教育的学生以及移民到日本的中国学生进行三方比较。通过这种比较，并使用各种多元技术和网络分析，我们预计将揭示一些理论问题，如教育移民的选择性；个人对区域移民的偏好是如何形成的，而不是跨区域移民；以及这些偏好对高等教育对未来终身课程抱负的感知价值和潜力的不同影响。除了提供关于中国和日本学生移民的宝贵调查数据外，这项研究还将使一系列非学术利益相关者受益，包括政府、高等教育机构、智囊团以及参与向国际学生提供信息和支持的组织。该项目建立在欧洲合作伙伴目前资助的调查研究“光明未来：中国学生的国内和国际流动性”以及他们与京都大学研究人员的合作基础上。

This project will conduct a systematic and comparative analysis of Asian student mobilities--one of the most intense flows of educational migrations. We will shed new light on the relationship between educational mobility and life course aspirations and formation, and their regional dynamics. Our research design is innovative: We propose three-way comparisons on a representative sample of Japanese and Chinese students in British and German universities, with those who stayed domestically for their education, as well as Chinese students who migrated to Japan. Through such comparisons, and using a variety of multivariate techniques and network analysis, we expect to unveil a number of theoretical issues such as selectivity in educational migration; how individual preferences are shaped for regional as opposed to beyond region migrations; and the differential impact of such preferences on perceived value and potential of tertiary education for future life course aspirations. In addition to producing invaluable survey data on Chinese and Japanese student migrants, the research will benefit a range of non-academic stakeholders, including governments, tertiary institutions, think-thanks, and organizations involved in providing information and support to international students. The project builds upon European partners' current funded survey study "Bright Futures: Internal and International Mobility of Chinese Students" and their collaboration with University of Kyoto researchers.