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Gendered differences in international graduates’ mobility, identity and career development

Moskal, M.

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M. Moskal



Abstract

Although there is an abundance of research on international students’ experiences of adapting to a new learning and living environment in their receiving countries and at universities abroad, their post-study transitions have rarely been studied. This paper reports primary research on Asian international postgraduate students, following their graduation and return home and their considerations of how their study experience and feelings on return relate to their imagined future plans. In theoretical considerations of the role of the students’ mobility and their identity capital in the broader process of becoming and personal development, Côté’s identity capital model helps identify notable resource differences among international postgraduates. The analyses focus on how the postgraduates perceived the role of their educational mobility, what their experiences meant to them as well as their range of passive and active approaches to personal growth and life projects. The gender perspective seems to be particularly important in relation to post-study transitions, career development and trajectories. The discourse of return is related to becoming an adult, but this process is different for females and males. Male postgraduates seem to enjoy greater freedom in developing professional careers, whereas females more often face greater challenges to career development, curtailed by family pressures and social conventions.

Citation

Moskal, M. (2020). Gendered differences in international graduates’ mobility, identity and career development. Social and Cultural Geography, 21(3), 421-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1499039

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 30, 2018
Online Publication Date Jul 23, 2018
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Jul 31, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Social and Cultural Geography
Print ISSN 1464-9365
Electronic ISSN 1470-1197
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 21
Issue 3
Pages 421-440
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1499039

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