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Voluntarily exiled? Korean state’s cultural politics of young adults’ social belonging and Korean students’ exile to a US community college.
- Source :
- Higher Education (00181560); Aug2018, Vol. 76 Issue 2, p353-367, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study examines the complicated interlink between the Korean state’s neoliberal identity politics and working- and lower middle-class Korean students’ study abroad as a form of voluntarily exile. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis and a 14-month ethnographic study, this study discusses how these students’ decisions to study abroad are inextricably intertwined with the authoritarian Korean state’s neoliberal political-economic strategies of pushing out seemingly less-profitable citizens (namely, students and graduates of low-ranking 4-year institutions). This study also examines students’ strategies for simultaneously resisting and conforming to this neoliberal ethos. For working-class and lower middle-class Korean community college students, study abroad means a deviation from the normal educational and life trajectories in Korea while, at the same time, their education in the USA opens a pathway for reentering the Korean neoliberal system as more profitable citizens. Their being recognized as members of a profitable workforce indicates their achievement of neoliberal normalcy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00181560
- Volume :
- 76
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Higher Education (00181560)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130918395
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0212-3