Jayadeva, S;
(2019)
Keep calm and apply to Germany: how online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
10.1080/1369183X.2019.1643230.
(In press).
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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 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Keep calm and apply to Germany: how online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1643230 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1643230 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Student mobility, social media, migration infrastructure, India |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079947 |
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