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

该项目将对亚洲学生流动-最密集的教育移民流动之一-进行系统的比较分析。我们将阐明教育流动性和生命历程的愿望和形成之间的关系，以及它们的区域动态。我们的研究设计是创新的：我们提出了一个三方面的比较，在英国和德国大学的日本和中国学生的代表性样本，与那些留在国内接受教育，以及中国学生谁迁移到日本。通过这样的比较，并使用各种多变量技术和网络分析，我们希望揭示一些理论问题，如在教育迁移的选择性;个人偏好是如何形成的区域，而不是超越区域迁移;和差异的影响，这种偏好对感知价值和潜力的高等教育未来的生活课程的愿望。除了产生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、高等院校、think thanks以及为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“光明的未来：中国学生的国内和国际流动”及其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.