Education, Migration, and Cultural Capital in the Chinese Diaspora: Transnational Students Between Hong Kong and Canada
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The Importance of Habitus

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Segregation and the Development of Friendships

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Chapter 5: Return to Hong Kong: Transnational Geographies of Cultural Capital

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The Superiority of the Overseas Education: How Failure Is Turned to Gold

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Vague Notions and Stereotypes

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Employer Preferences: Modes of Assessment and Types of Skill

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Hiring Practices in Hong Kong Firms: A Local View

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English: The Global Language

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Ethnic Cultural Capital: Embodied Cosmopolitan Competences

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Social Capital and Cultural Capital: Group Identity in the Valuation of Credentials

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Social Capital and Referrals in Job Seeking

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The Geography of Cultural Capital: A Double-Edged Sword?

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Chapter 6: Employability Into the Future: Capital and the Ongoing Pursuit of Positional Advantage

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Employability and Positional Advantage

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Corporate Sociability

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Putting in Face Time

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Pursuing Rarer Goods: Specialisation and the MBA

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Conclusion: Transnational Education: Geographies of Cultural Capital

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Transnational Cultural Capital

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Unanswered Questions and Concerns

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Future Trends in International Education and Transnational Student Mobility

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