Mobility and desire: international students and Asian regionalism in aspirational Singapore

Discourse

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 661-676

  Collins, Francis L ^a   Sidhu, Ravinder ^b   Lewis, Nick ^a   Yeoh, Brenda S A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

difference; global city; globalization; higher education; internationalization; transnational mobilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907583548     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2014.921996     Document Type: Article

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