Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs最新文献

A Life's Work? Unpacking the Existential Meaning of Educational Mobilities for Migrant Families 一生的工作？解读移民家庭教育流动的存在意义

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12513

Johanna L. Waters

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Childhood, Migration and the Pursuit of Happiness in MIDDLE-CLASS EAST ASIA 东亚中产阶级的童年、移民和幸福追求

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12511

Fanni Beck, Pál Nyíri, Sofia Gaspar

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Navigating Stepwise Lifestyle Mobilities via the Global South: Japanese Migrant Families’ Negotiation of Educational and Lifestyle Aspirations in Malaysia 通过全球南部的阶梯式生活方式流动：日本移民家庭在马来西亚对教育和生活方式愿望的协商

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12510

Hiroki Igarashi

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Commentary: East Asian Educational Migration as Narrative Quests 评论：作为叙事探索的东亚教育移民

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12512

Jing Xu

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The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood: Experiences of Chinese Global Multiple Migrants 童年时期跨国文化资本的培养：中国全球多重移民的经历

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12506

Susanne Y. P. Choi, Xiaomin Cai, Yu Pei, Lingxi Chen

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Educational Exit and the Pursuit of a Happy Childhood Among Singaporean Middle-Class Families 新加坡中产阶级家庭的教育退出与追求幸福童年

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12498

Kristina Göransson

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Educational Fetish and Chinese Emigration to Poland 教育癖与中国人移民波兰

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12496

Krzysztof Kardaszewicz

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‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Rebels’: Ambivalent Success Frames of Chinese International Secondary School Graduates in the United States 实用主义者 "和 "叛逆者"：中国国际中学毕业生在美国的矛盾成功框架

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12492

Siqi Tu

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Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class-Making 跨国阶级形成理论化：研究跨国不平等和阶级形成的新方法

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12491

Sören Carlson, Karolina Barglowski

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Not to Study, But to Experience: Parental Aspirations, Children's Happiness and Alternative Pathways to Going Global in South Korea 不是为了学习，而是为了体验：韩国父母的抱负、子女的幸福以及走向世界的其他途径

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12493

Yoonhee Kang

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