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Author:   Karen Valentin (Aarhus University, Denmark) ,  Karen Olwig (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138202306

ISBN 10:   1138202304
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   20 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Mobility, education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways 2. Migrating for a profession: becoming a Caribbean nurse in post-WWII Britain 3. Rescuing children, reforming the Empire: British child migration to colonial Southern Rhodesia 4. Gendered educational trajectories and transnational marriage among West African students in France 5. ‘La Lenin is my passport’: schooling, mobility and belonging in socialist Cuba and its diaspora 6. Transnational education and the remaking of social identity: Nepalese student migration to Denmark 7. Becoming independent through au pair migration: self-making and social re-positioning among young Filipinas in Denmark 8. Converting experiences in ‘communities of practice’: ‘educational’ migration in Denmark and achievements of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices

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Karen Valentin is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Anthropology, School of Education, at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research areas are education, migration, urban life, and youth, based on fieldwork in Nepal, India, Vietnam, and Denmark. Karen Fog Olwig is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has extensive research experience of studying family and kinship in processes of migration, in both a Caribbean and a Danish context.

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