Suchergebnisse

1. Acknowledgements.-2. About the Author -- 3. The Dawn of an Era?: Globally mobile African students and China -- 4. International student mobility in a changing world -- 5. Pre-mobility life-worlds: who is on the move? -- 6. Strategising and spontaneity in mobility decision-making -- 7. Experiences in China: getting on, getting out? -- 8. Post-graduation plans: Navigating global regimes of mobility -- 9. Concluding thoughts: the future of Africa-China student mobility. .

Employing a theoretical framework that draws on the concept of global regimes of mobility and Bourdieu's theory of practice, this article seeks to analyse how African student migrants in China navigate global structural inequalities in planning for post-graduation mobility, while strategising to overcome barriers to mobility and capital accumulation. It argues that China's position within the contemporary global political economy is reflected in the ways these student migrants navigate intersecting global mobility regimes. Moving beyond the 'stay/return' binary common in student mobility research, the article delineates three post-study trajectories: returnees, deterred by structural barriers from staying in the host country; those who stay in China, overcoming these barriers by opening businesses, with plans to return home later; and those who plan to accumulate capital in China to meet the requirements of more stringent mobility regimes in the Global North.