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{"title":"Skilled US migrants in the Pearl River Delta region: the rise of an intellectual gateway in China","authors":"Yining Tan, Wei Li","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270343","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe increasing globalization and rising knowledge-based economy have created a higher-than-ever demand for skilled workers. China, among some Global South countries, is joining the race for talent to alleviate the brain drain. Using the conceptual framework of ‘intellectual migration’, this study examines how the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China is increasingly becoming an ‘intellectual gateway’ that attracts and retains skilled international migrants. Drawing on 58 semi-structured interviews with skilled US migrants in this region, this article addresses the following research questions: (1) Why do skilled US migrants choose the region as their migration destination; and (2) As a rising intellectual gateway, how does the PRD region shape the integration of skilled US migrants?Our findings suggest that the PRD region’s knowledge-based economy and socio-cultural environment serve as strong magnets that attract skilled US migrants. These factors are critical to the structural and socio-cultural integration of skilled international migrants. The research advances the intellectual migration framework by providing empirical evidence on the geography of intellectual migration in a fast-growing megalopolis in the Global South, demonstrating the diversity of intellectual migrants and intellectual gateways. Policy implications include supporting the synergy of structural and socio-cultural integration of global talent.KEYWORDS: Intellectual gatewayskilled migrationlocational choiceintegrationChina AcknowledgementA US National Science Foundation grant (BCS-1660526) partially funded the research project that this article is based upon. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. We thank American Association of Geographer’s Dissertation Grant and Arizona State University’s Melvin G. Marcus Memorial Fellowship and Matthew G. Bailey Scholarship for supporting the fieldwork. We are thankful for the insightful comments from the anonymous reviewers. We thank Dr. Elizabeth Chacko for her feedback on an earlier draft of the manuscript. We also thank Mr. Siqiao Xie for introducing key literature to us. We appreciate all the participants for sharing their migration and life experiences.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"684 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136018610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Students on the move? Intellectual migration and international student mobility","authors":"Lucia Lo, Wei Li, Yining Tan","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270331","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTInternational student mobility, taking place within the framework of globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism, has attained much attention. This paper adopts the Intellectual Migration framework to further our understanding of mobility regarding international higher education. It simultaneously studies China-born students in both China and North America to empirically examine the propensity for student mobility across national borders and the determining factors behind the realisation of such mobility under the same set of geopolitical and international circumstances. The analysis is based on a set of cross-sectional surveys conducted in the 2017–2019 period that yields over 1600 data points. We compare the ‘who’, ‘why’ and ‘where’ aspects of migration between domestic students in China and Chinese international students in North America to delineate the factors underlying international student mobility. By highlighting aspirations and capabilities on mobility outcomes, this paper contributes to differentiating mobility between undergraduate and graduate students and the implications for social inequality. Our analysis also reveals the unequal spatial distributions of educational resources between intellectual gateways and peripheries, and by extension between the Global North and the Global South. The findings of this paper have policy implications on improving the quality, accessibility, and equity of higher education.KEYWORDS: Intellectual migrationundergraduate student mobilitygraduate student mobilityChinaNorth America AcknowledgementA US National Science Foundation grant (BCS-1660526), a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant (435-2017-1168), and a National Science Foundation of China grant (71742004) funded the research project that this article is based upon. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 We are aware that there are possibilities for Chinese undergraduate students to transfer credits to another undergraduate program abroad, or for Chinese students with undergraduate degrees to pursue another undergraduate degree overseas. But in most cases, most Chinese students would choose for program progression when studying abroad, which is the focus of this paper.","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"241 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136018334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"China-born scholars’ intellectual capital: a network approach","authors":"Xiaojie Li","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270337","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTForeign-born scholars can accumulate and/or utilise their intellectual capital (IC) through intellectual migration. IC is a combination of transferrable human, cultural, and social capital. While IC has been conceptualised, no known studies have measured it. As foreign-born scholars often develop academic networks that transcend geographical and ethnic boundaries, their IC should not be simplified as a single scale. Adopting the ego-centric network analysis method, this study proposes an approach to quantify foreign-born scholars’ IC based on their co-author network. This approach includes a group of measures to capture IC within and between different geographic and ethnic contexts. Based on the co-authorship data collected among China-born scholars at a public research university in the U.S., this study examines how their IC levels evolve over time, differ between younger- and older-generation scholars, and whether they are influenced by where one receives a PhD degree.KEYWORDS: China-born scholarsintellectual capitaltransnational research collaborationsocial network analysisco-authorship networks Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"78 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136017518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing Chinese academic returnees in Chengdu and Guangzhou: reasons for return, choice of destination and onward migration intention","authors":"Yixi Lu, Jason Jean, Ling Ma","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270342","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis is a comparative study on Chinese academic returnees in Chengdu and Guangzhou, China. Adopting the concepts of intellectual gateway (IG), intellectual node (IN) and intellectual capital (IC) from the intellectual migration (IM) framework, as well as the amenities perspective in migration studies, this article conceptualises Chengdu as an emerging IG and Guangzhou as a typical IG. Through analysing macro-level public data and first-hand interviews and survey data at the micro level, it explores academic returnees’destination choice and if urban amenities and individual preferences influence their onward migration intention. It concludes that academic returnees’choice of destination is not only highly related to their pursuit of IC development and economic capital, but is also influenced by their preferences of different types of cultural amenities. Chengdu’s cultural amenities tend to attract and retain more personal-life-oriented academic returnees, while Guangzhou is favoured by professional-life-oriented returnees. Furthermore, compared to returnees in Guangzhou, those in Chengdu are more likely to stay for longer terms. It is suggested that building rich cultural amenities and intellectual networks can be potential advantages for emerging IGs in attracting and retaining intellectual migrants.KEYWORDS: Academic returneesdestinationreturn migrationonward migrationamenity AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to extend their sincere appreciation to the editors and reviewers, for their careful reading as well as detailed and insightful comments. This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41971183; 42371229;41971184).Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 YTTP is a sub-program of TTP launched in 2011 to attract overseas top-tier scientists under the age of 40.2 Sichuan area refers to the geographic area of Sichuan, thus it includes Chongqing.","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"55 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136017523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intellectual capital and student mobility","authors":"Yining Tan, Lucia Lo, Wei Li, Guanglong Pang","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270332","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper advances the conceptualisation and application of intellectual capital, a key concept in the intellectual migration framework, to understand international student mobility. The intellectual migration framework contends that higher-education and highly-skilled migrants acquire, upgrade and utilise intellectual capital for upward career and social mobility. This paper argues that intellectual capital is not the sum of different forms of capitals, but a complete package with human, cultural and social capitals working in synergy through the agency of migrants. Focusing on higher-education students at the beginning of the intellectual migration continuum, it analyzes how intellectual capital is differentially accumulated at various stages of the educational process. Drawing on 51 semi-structured interviews with Chinese international students in North America, we learn that pre-migration intellectual capital, due largely to parents and family, reflects social inequality in contemporary societies whereas that obtained while studying abroad reveals more on individual agency. As such, intellectual capital accumulation abroad serves as a mediating process, especially for those with less privileged backgrounds. Supportive international higher education sectors in both sending and receiving countries can also assist students in their intellectual capital cultivation process and contribute to alleviating educational inequality.KEYWORDS: Intellectual capitalmobilityintellectual migrationChinese international studentsNorth America AcknowledgementWe appreciate all research participants for sharing their stories. We are grateful of the reviews and comments from the editor and the anonymous reviews. We also thank Dr. Elaine Ho of National University of Singapore for the feedback to the early draft of this manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s). A US National Science Foundation grant (BCS-1660526) and a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant (435-2017-1168) funded the research project that this article is based upon. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.Additional informationFundingA US National Science Foundation grant (BCS-1660526) and a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant (435-2017-1168) funded the research project that this article is based upon. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"200 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136017697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"International students in China: regional distribution and macro-influencing factors","authors":"Zheng Lu, Yixi Lu, Lucia Lo, Haihua Zhu, Jason Jean","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270340","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAs a key player in intellectual migration, international students are affected by various micro-, meso- and macro-level factors when making their study destination choice. Existing literature on this topic mostly adopts a qualitative approach and limits to investigations of country choice. By applying exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometric modelling on a set of panel data, this study instead focuses on macro-level analyses of international students’ regional destination choice in China. First, we found that the spatial distribution of international students in China have changed over the course of our 1999–2018 study period. International students primarily concentrate in and/or around economic hubs or intellectual gateways although increase in semi-intellectual gateways are also observed. Second, international students in China has spatial effects and their study area choice is significantly affected by the number of international students studying there in the past, the quality of higher education, the availability of public infrastructure, touristic attractiveness, and the presence of policy incentives. These factors exercise greater influence on degree-seeking than non-degree-seeking students. Together, they represent persistence effect, learning and living environment effect, and spatial diffusion effect.KEYWORDS: Intellectual migrationinternational student mobilityspatial distributionChina Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The study area of this paper includes 31 provincial-level administrative regions in Mainland China. Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan are not included in the analysis.2 Chinese government scholarship (中国政府奖学金) refers to the scholarship to foreign students provided by Ministry of Education. MoE entrusts China Scholarship Council (CSC) to be responsible for the recruitment of Chinese government scholarship students and the management of daily affairs. In other words, Chinese government scholarship is a national-level scholarship provided by central government, and the data do not include scholarships provided by local governments and educational institutions.3 This Yearbook only provides monitoring data of key cities, and most of them are capital city of a province.4 Cluster maps for degree-seeking and non-degree-seeking students show similar features.5 CV=σ/X¯, of which σ is the standard deviation of dataset X and X¯ is the mean. A higher CV indicates a larger regional disparity of international students’ distribution.Additional informationFundingA grant from the National Social Science Fund of China (21BJL097) funded the research project that this article is based upon.","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"247 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136018332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: the intellectual migration analytics","authors":"Wei Li, Lucia Lo, Yixi Lu","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270314","url":null,"abstract":"The term ‘intellectual migration’ initially referred to the exodus of European scientists and other professionals to the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. Academic and policy debates around issues of ‘brain drain’, ‘brain gain’, and ‘brain circulation’ in recent decades have intensified the usage of this term. A 2015 paper first attempted conceptualising Intellectual Migration as an analytical framework that encompasses a migration spectrum where students to professionals at different life stages move for intellectual pursuits that can advance career development. Li et al. (Citation2021) articulate the framework by elaborating on the underlying key concepts – intellectual capital, intellectual nodes, intellectual gateways, intellectual peripheries – and the role they play in one’s spatial and social mobilities, and connecting internal migration with international migration. This special issue assembles empirical research that addresses issues like the (un)certainty of engaging in intellectual migration, agency-structure dynamics behind migration decisions, and the value of intellectual capital in the migration process. This introductory piece traces the evolution of the intellectual migration conceptualisation while synthesising the findings to affirm the usefulness of the framework in analysing higher-education and highly-skilled migration.","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"2 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136017695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on motivation to stay: a comparison between Chinese and non-Chinese international students in Nova Scotia, Canada","authors":"Eugena Kwon, Min-Jung Kwak, Gowoon Jung, Steven Smith, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Emmanuel Kyeremeh, Michael Zhang","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270334","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted international students due to unexpected changes in policies and regulations regarding their visa status and immigration, travel restrictions, and heightened scrutiny against foreigners. Such changes potentially disrupt and affect international students’ post-graduation migration plan: whether they decide to go back to their home country or stay in Canada and apply for permanent residency. This may particularly be the case for Chinese international students, the 2nd largest group of international students in Canada, due to the rise of anti-Asian racism and the stigmatization that the COVID-19 is a ‘Chinese virus’. Using ‘intellectual migration’ as our analytical framework, we pay particular attention to the experiences of Chinese international students in the province of Nova Scotia, an intellectual periphery in Canada. Drawing upon data from online surveys and focus groups, this study compares the experiences of Chinese and non-Chinese international students during the pandemic and whether these experiences have impacted their post-migration plans and their motivation to stay in Nova Scotia, Canada.KEYWORDS: COVID-19 pandemicChinese international studentsPost-graduation planNova Scotia, CanadaIntellectual migration framework Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis research has been supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC COVID PEG 1008-2020-0036).","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"248 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136018331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global education trajectories and inequality: STEM workers from China to the US","authors":"Siqiao Xie","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270338","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe United States has become reliant on workers from abroad to meet its demand for the knowledge-based economy. However, some migrants may face an earnings deficit relative to similar US-born workers. This paper examines the sources of the deficit and asks whether we should expect the initial deficit to disappear with education attainment and work experience in the US. They are challenging to answer as few data sources measure and track market experiences and educational trajectories of migrants over time. Migration and educational trajectories which reflect the country's source of formal educational credentials as well as other forms of capital may explain the deficit, this study applies sequence analysis to the National Science Foundation’s ‘National College Graduate Survey’ to examine earnings differences between China- and US-born STEM workers. After identifying the dominant migration-education profiles for these STEM workers, I show that the wages of migrants with exclusively China-based education are 5–25% lower than those of workers with at least some US-based education, even among workers who are otherwise similar in terms of experience, legal status, employer type, occupation, degree level and time since migration. These findings point to significant and lasting penalties due to non-US education.KEYWORDS: Migrationeducationintellectual migrationtrajectorysequence analysis Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 College educated, either with STEM-related education or work in a STEM occupation.2 NSCG takes a stratified sampling strategy to maximize its coverage of different demographic, education and occupation groups (National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Citation2019)3 Due to the extremely small sample size, the fifth highest degree is omitted in the analysis.4 Job-Skill Match is derived from the ‘OCEDRLP’ variable in the NSCG dataset, measuring to what extent is the respondent’s work is related to their highest degree. Higher score denotes a closer match.5 Due to data compression in the public-use NSCG dataset, the geographic unit in this analysis is limited to countries and census divisions; the institution identifier is limited to the 1994 Carnegie classification codes; citizenship and visa type are restricted to citizen/non-citizen/naturalized citizen, and temporary/permanent visas.6 Age 25–65 is selected to capture working age population with college education per ACS standard; see US Census Bureau (Citation2020) for detail.7 To reduce the complication in the optimal-matching distance calculation and trajectory clustering process, this study has adopted country code as the indicator of education location, STEM/STEM-related/non-STEM broad group codes for field of study, and 1994 Carnegie code for institution identifier.8 I have tested multiple sequence analysis fit statistics such as the silhouette score and elbow method, and the results all point to the four","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"138 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136017529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions","authors":"Yixi Lu, Jason Jean, Zheng Lu","doi":"10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2023.2270326","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSince 1991, the annual population of Chinese students studying abroad has increased dramatically, peaking at 703,500 in 2019. This study explores who they are and why they intend to study abroad, using university student survey data collected in 2018 from two major universities in a southwestern city in China. Bivariate analysis and multinomial logistical regression analysis were conducted to examine the family and personal factors influencing their intentions to study abroad, followed by non-parametric tests for identifying the primary reasons motivating them to study abroad or inhibiting such intention. It was found that although economic capital shows significant influence, intellectual capital, at both family and personal levels, has the strongest effect on Chinese university students’ intentions to study abroad. Furthermore, being able to accumulate/upgrade intellectual capital is the primary reason for them to consider studying abroad and selecting the destination, whereas the lack of sufficient financial support is a direct deterrent on pursuing international education. Additionally, gender difference matters on intention to study abroad.KEYWORDS: Chinese studentspostgraduate intentionstudy abroadintellectual capital Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The number can be retrieved at http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_xwfb/gzdt_gzdt/s5987/202012/t20201214_505447.html2 Intellectual Periphery, Intellectual Gateway and Intellectual Note, are conceptualised in the introduction piece of this special issue (Li, Lo, and Lu, Citation2023).3 ‘Project 211’ and ‘Project 985’ are national projects of China, launched in the 1990s, to fund selected universities to raise their research capacities and international reputations. The ‘double-first-class’ initiative was launched in 2017 to renew the two previous projects, aiming to create world-class universities and disciplines.4 In China, the type of high school students enrolled partially indicates their educational performance and family economic status. Enrolling at key public schools and sometimes prestigious private schools indicates high academic performance; enrolling at international/private schools also implicates well-off family background; while non-key public school students show less educational and/or economic advantages.5 China talent policy is an umbrella term to bracket policies designed to attract the desired talent overseas to China, especially Chinese students with graduate degrees from western universities (Miao, et al. Citation2022)6 All OR values reported in text are significant at the level of .05 or .01 or .001, unless otherwise stated.7 ORs are not cited in some paragraphs, because its values vary between models despite providing same conclusion, general trend is described, and ORs can be found in Table 2.8 According to different survey data and official statistics, the US has been the number one destination for Chinese students","PeriodicalId":48371,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies","volume":"55 16","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136017522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}