Working within the aspiring center : professional status and mobilities among migrant faculty in Singapore

• Main Authors: Ortiga, Yasmin Y., Chou, Meng-Hsuan, Sondhi, Gunjan, Wang, Jue
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Academic Mobility; Return Migration; DRNTU::Social sciences::General
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81022; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48140
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper investigates the migration of Asia-born academics from traditional centers in the West to Singapore, a rapidly developing education hub in Southeast Asia. We argue that such movement can be seen as a form of quasi-return, where migrant faculty look for places where they can be “close enou...