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

146

Segregation and the Development of Friendships

148

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

153

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

156

Vague Notions and Stereotypes

157

Employer Preferences: Modes of Assessment and Types of Skill

160

Hiring Practices in Hong Kong Firms: A Local View

166

English: The Global Language

170

Ethnic Cultural Capital: Embodied Cosmopolitan Competences

171

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

174

Social Capital and Referrals in Job Seeking

179

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

183

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

189

Employability and Positional Advantage

190

Corporate Sociability

191

Putting in Face Time

195

Pursuing Rarer Goods: Specialisation and the MBA

198

Conclusion: Transnational Education: Geographies of Cultural Capital

207

Transnational Cultural Capital

209

Unanswered Questions and Concerns

212

Future Trends in International Education and Transnational Student Mobility

213