Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England
The last decade has seen the rise of literatures that have focused on the rapid expansion of the numbers of international students in higher education globally and the growing policy discourse around improving graduate employability. However, both, inevitably, have limitations. Together, they tend t...
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| description | The last decade has seen the rise of literatures that have focused on the rapid expansion of the numbers of international students in higher education globally and the growing policy discourse around improving graduate employability. However, both, inevitably, have limitations. Together, they tend to homogenise international learners and see them narrowly as simply economic actors. More recently, however, there have been signs of important new developments in both literatures, drawing on interactive employability and capability accounts that stress both agency and structure in more satisfactory ways. We seek to further the development of an account that bridges the new wave of student mobility research and the capability-employability account. In doing so, we offer two further elements to the literature. First, we aim to bridge the gap between international higher education accounts and those of migration and diasporic studies. Second, we deliberately focus on a group that is marginal to the mainstream discourse but who are migrants that have engaged in international higher education in order to improve their labour market prospects, amongst other motivations. We do this through examining the stories of five Zimbabweans who embarked on additional higher educational studies in England after migrating to the country. Through this unique approach, we offer an important new perspective on how the debates on international higher education, employability and migration can be taken forward through closer articulation between these accounts. |
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| spelling | nottingham-291112020-05-04T17:12:33Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29111/ Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England McGrath, Simon Madziva, Roda Thondhlana, Juliet The last decade has seen the rise of literatures that have focused on the rapid expansion of the numbers of international students in higher education globally and the growing policy discourse around improving graduate employability. However, both, inevitably, have limitations. Together, they tend to homogenise international learners and see them narrowly as simply economic actors. More recently, however, there have been signs of important new developments in both literatures, drawing on interactive employability and capability accounts that stress both agency and structure in more satisfactory ways. We seek to further the development of an account that bridges the new wave of student mobility research and the capability-employability account. In doing so, we offer two further elements to the literature. First, we aim to bridge the gap between international higher education accounts and those of migration and diasporic studies. Second, we deliberately focus on a group that is marginal to the mainstream discourse but who are migrants that have engaged in international higher education in order to improve their labour market prospects, amongst other motivations. We do this through examining the stories of five Zimbabweans who embarked on additional higher educational studies in England after migrating to the country. Through this unique approach, we offer an important new perspective on how the debates on international higher education, employability and migration can be taken forward through closer articulation between these accounts. Taylor & Francis 2015-07-21 Article PeerReviewed McGrath, Simon, Madziva, Roda and Thondhlana, Juliet (2015) Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England. Journal of Further and Higher Education . ISSN 0309-877X Employability Graduates Migrants Zimbabwe http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0309877X.2015.1062853 doi:10.1080/0309877X.2015.1062853 doi:10.1080/0309877X.2015.1062853 |
| spellingShingle | Employability Graduates Migrants Zimbabwe McGrath, Simon Madziva, Roda Thondhlana, Juliet Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England |
| title | Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England |
| title_full | Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England |
| title_short | Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England |
| title_sort | rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of zimbabweans with degrees from england |
| topic | Employability Graduates Migrants Zimbabwe |
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