Transnational political engagements and diasporic connections in Nepali education-related migration to Denmark
| Autor: | Karen Valentin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Valentin, K 2022, Transnational political engagements and diasporic connections in Nepali education-related migration to Denmark . in Mobilities and Mobilizations : South Asian Universities as Transformative Spaces . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 289-314 . Aarhus University |
| Popis: | The Nepali diaspora in Denmark dates back to the early 2000s and has emerged in response to the expanding commercialized international education market and a demand for qualified labour. For this reason, the Nepalis in Denmark generally immigrated at relatively young ages as students, highly skilled professionals and accompanying spouses. However, they initially went to school and college in Nepal in the 1990s, a period of prolonged political upheaval due to civil war. Some grew up in families engaged in politics, others tried to keep formal politics at a distance, but all were in some way or another affected by the social and political tensions played out in the realm of higher education and the wider society. Now, years later, many are to varying degrees engaged in different types of diasporic political and civic activities, including projects of ‘social entrepreneurship’. Drawing on ethnographic data on education-related migration from Nepal to Denmark, this chapter focuses on higher education as a transnational socio-political field and thereby sheds light on the porous boundaries of educational institutions. The chapter analyses how previous experiences from growing up in a highly politicized education system and a general condition of political instability in Nepal factor into later transnational political engagements among Nepali migrants. It thereby feeds into the larger literature on mobility and transnationalism as well as debates on political action in South Asia, where institutions of higher education have historically been central in the political shaping of the youth. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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