Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education : academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia

Koh, Sin Yee and Sin, I Lin (2022) Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education : academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45 (4). pp. 656-676. ISSN 0141-9870 (https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1977362)

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Abstract

The expansion of transnational education has diversified the destinations and mobility patterns of academic and teacher expatriates (i.e. education expatriates). Emerging literature have explored white Anglo-Western expatriates’ experiences of racism and racialization in non-white majority settings, but these are not usually analysed alongside that of less- and non-white expatriates. This article does so by drawing from qualitative interviews with forty racially diverse education expatriates in Malaysia to explore differential experiences in work, immigration and everyday life. It investigates expatriate experiences at the intersection of race, nationality and skin colour, and where relevant, the interconnections with gender, age, class and religion. It critically examines how education expatriates respond to their hierarchical position(ing)s within the dominant racial logics of (white) Westernness in postcolonial Malaysia. A translocational positionality approach offers valuable intersectional insights into the racialized processes that stratify education expatriates’ experiences of (dis)advantage and capital convertibility in contingent and contradictory ways.

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  • Item type:Article
    ID code:90842
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    3 December 2022
    Published
    10 September 2021
    Published Online
    31 August 2021
    Accepted
    Subjects:Education
    Department:Professional Services > Human Resources Directorate
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:14 Oct 2024 11:15
    Last modified:15 Nov 2024 14:37
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90842
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