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Keep calm and apply to Germany: how online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany
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Abstract This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutual-help communities of aspirant student migrants on Facebook and WhatsApp, which are aimed at helping m... mehr
This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutual-help communities of aspirant student migrants on Facebook and WhatsApp, which are aimed at helping members navigate the process of going abroad for study. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork focused on postgraduate-level student migration from India to Germany, the paper explores how these communities are meeting aspirant student migrants' information and support needs in novel ways. Not only are they a key space in which information on study in Germany is discussed, dissected, and interpreted, they have also resulted in the production of a whole new body of information, tools, and resources on how to navigate the process of going to Germany for a Master's degree. The paper argues that these communities can be seen as democratising access to study abroad, to some extent, by dramatically expanding applicants' social networks and the social capital to which they have access.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Mobilität; Studium; Ausbildung; Ausland; Soziale Medien; Informationsaustausch; Bildungsberatung; Migration; Indien; Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Klassifikation
Migration
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 2240-2257
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46 (2020) 11
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1643230
ISSN
1469-9451
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)