Wei LI, Arizona State University, United States
Lucia LO , Arizona State University, United States
The Intellectual Migration Project, funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the United States’ National Science Foundation, offers an analytical framework that encompasses a migration spectrum where students to professionals move at different life stages for intellectual pursuits that can advance career development. Informed by the literature on mobility, translocalism/transnationalism, and brain drain/gain/circulation, the intellectual migration conceptualization contends that higher education migration and highly skilled migration are connected. This presentation consists of two parts. The first articulates the intellectual migration framework by elaborating on the underlying key concepts—intellectual capital, intellectual nodes, intellectual gateways, intellectual peripheries—and the role they play in one’s physical and social mobilities over one’s life course. To examine the usefulness of the framework, the second part focuses on some empirical work that examines the actual and anticipated migration trajectories of higher education students originating from China and currently studying in North American universities. Findings highlight the link between student mobility and labour mobility, and affirm the usefulness of the life course approach in studying intellectual migration.
Mots clés : intellectual migration|student mobility|labour mobility|life course
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