A vast body of research demonstrates that the key to successfully transferring existing human capital to the labor markets of the destination nations is proficiency in the destination language and the capacity to learn it fast.
In my post for Asian-Nation about Mainland and Taiwan influence in overseas Chinese schools, I wrote about a passage from my Chinese school days that was clearly Nationalist propaganda. Recently, [...]
C.N. Le of Asian-Nation has graciously invited me to contribute to his blog, which was one of the first (if not the first) sociology blog looking specifically at Asian Americans. [...]
I include the trailer for Speaking in Tongues because although the bilingual education debate in the United States is usually focused around Spanish speakers, the filmmakers chose to emphasize Mandarin [...]
Do people of South Asian descent in the UK identify with the label “British Asian”? Is “British Asian” a good analytical category for researchers and policy makers interested in the [...]
In writing my master’s thesis on Chinese language schools, I’m reading tons of books and articles on ethnic language schools and their cousins, ethnic cram schools. Sociologists and education scholars [...]
Fellow ethnographers, how do you use technology in the field? I have only had a smartphone for the past three months and a tablet for two weeks, but so far [...]
The Age ran an article this week about the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley, which is quickly becoming an enclave for affluent, well-educated Chinese migrants. Currently, Mainland China is the [...]