Green norms across borders: how does migration affect pro-environmental behaviour?

当学生离开家去学习时，他们可能会改变自己行为的许多方面，并适应和发展他们的许多态度和价值观。其中一些变化可能是持久而深刻的。当学生移居到一个新的国家时，这种变化可能会更加剧烈。该项目将特别关注与环境影响相关的行为和态度，如能源使用、交通选择和废物处理，特别是来英国留学的中国学生。在我自己之前的研究中，来英国留学的中国学生报告说，他们发现自己身处一个比他们在国内习惯的“绿色”文化更强烈的国家。有趣的是，他们中的许多人说他们已经改变了许多环保行为。在我对南安普顿的中国学生的抽样调查中，许多人表示，他们更多地回收利用，节约能源，使用更环保的交通工具，往往是出于“适应”非中国同龄人的愿望。由此产生了两个问题。首先，考虑到在英国有很多中国学生，我们如何在这个重要的学生群体中鼓励更多的绿色行为？其次，学生回国后会发生什么？绿色行为的改变会持续下去，还是会消失？这些都是本研究项目试图回答的问题。

When students leave home to study, they are likely to change many aspects of their behaviour, and adapt and develop many of their attitudes and values as well. Some of these changes may be enduring and profound. When students migrate to a new country, such changes can be even more dramatic. This project will look specifically at behaviours and attitudes which relate to environmental impacts, such as energy use, transport choices, and waste disposal, and specifically at Chinese students who come to study in the UK.In my own previous research, Chinese students who had come to the UK to study reported finding themselves in a country with a stronger culture of 'being green' than they had been used to back home. Interestingly, many of them said that they had changed many of their green behaviours. In my sample of Chinese students in Southampton, many reported recycling more, saving energy and using greener transport options, often out of a desire to 'fit in' with their non-Chinese peers. Two questions arise from this. Firstly, given that there are many Chinese students in the UK, how can we try to encourage more green behaviour among this significant student cohort? Secondly, what happens when students go back to China? Does the green behaviour change endure, or is it lost? These are the questions this research project seeks to answer.