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

当学生离开家去学习时，他们可能会改变他们行为的许多方面，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和深刻的。当学生迁移到一个新的国家时，这种变化可能会更加剧烈。这个项目将特别关注与环境影响有关的行为和态度，如能源使用、交通选择和废物处理，特别是来英国学习的中国学生。在我之前的研究中，来英国学习的中国学生报告说，他们发现自己在一个比他们在家乡更有“绿色”文化的国家。有趣的是，他们中的许多人说，他们已经改变了许多绿色行为。在我对南安普顿的中国学生进行的抽样调查中，许多人报告说，他们更多地进行回收利用，节约能源，使用更环保的交通方式，这往往是出于“融入"非中国同龄人的愿望。由此产生两个问题。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？第二，当学生回到中国时会发生什么？这种绿色行为的改变会持续下去，还是会消失？这些都是这个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.