Research Catalog

Title

Student mobility and narrative in Europe : the new strangers / Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune.

Author

Murphy-Lejeune, Elizabeth, 1948-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Description

x, 275 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Bringing together case studies and theory, this book is the first in-depth qualitative study of student migration within Europe. Drawing on the theory of 'the stranger' as a sociological type, the author suggests that the traveling European students can be seen as a new migratory elite. The book presents the narratives of traveling students, explains their motivations, the effects of movement into a new social and cultural context, the problems of adaptation, and describes the construction of social networks, and the process of adaptation to new cultures."--Publisher's information.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in anthropology

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in anthropology

Subject

• Foreign study > Europe
• Students, Foreign > Europe > Social conditions
• Etudiants
• Mobilité scolaire
• ERASMUS (Programme)
• Analyse sociologique
• UE/CE Etats membres
• Foreign study
• Students, Foreign > Social conditions
• Auslandsstudium
• Ausländischer Student
• Fremdheit
• Mobilität
• Student
• Studentenleven
• Internationalisatie
• Sociale aspecten
• Europe
• Europa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-269) and index.

Contents

1. The stranger's template -- 2. Narratives of student travellers -- 3. Mobility capital: a taste for living abroad -- 4. An adventure into another time-space -- 5. The arrival: a rite of passage -- 6. Redefining culture shock in a European context -- 7. New spaces, new places -- 8. The new social setting -- 9. The creation of a new social fabric -- 10. Adaptation: chameleon or clam.

ISBN

• 0415261791
• 9780415261791

LCCN

2001034884

OCLC

• ocm46976492
• 46976492
• SCSB-8904157

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library