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DESCRIPTION:The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute presents a book
talk with Susan Thomas\, assistant professor of cultural foundations of e
ducation at SU’s School of Education. Thomas is also a senior research ass
ociate in the South Asia Center. \;International students\, undoubtedl
y\, have become crucial to the revenue generation schemes of educational i
nstitutions\, their growing presence contributing to a multi-billion dolla
r industry. Yet very little attention is paid to the stories of longings a
nd struggle that underlie their migratory paths. Susan Thomas takes such s
tories as her point of departure\, arguing that they are formative to the
educational circuits of neoliberal globalization. Her new book\, "Indebted
Mobilities" (University of Chicago Press)\, is an ethnographic rendering
of a group of middle-class Indian migrant men who attended a public univer
sity in New York just as the institution sought to “internationalize” its
campus in the wake of ongoing withdrawals of state funding. Marked by cons
iderations of labor\, post-9/11 surveillance\, and other modes of exclusio
n\, at the heart of their encounters is these young people’s relationship
to debt\, which becomes critical to how they make sense of their experienc
es as student-migrants. These youth may long to be modern “men of the worl
d\,” but "Indebted Mobilities" illuminates how the complex realities that
arise force them to reckon with their anxieties about successful masculini
ties and confront the precarity of being drawn into the global knowledge e
conomy as indebted migrants. \;
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SUMMARY:Book Talk - Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth\, Migration and the I
nternationalizing University
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Insti
tute presents a book talk with Susan Thomas\, assistant professor of cultu
ral foundations of education at SU’s School of Education. Thomas is also a
senior research associate in the South Asia Center. \;
Int
ernational students\, undoubtedly\, have become crucial to the revenue gen
eration schemes of educational institutions\, their growing presence contr
ibuting to a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet very little attention is p
aid to the stories of longings and struggle that underlie their migratory
paths. Susan Thomas takes such stories as her point of departure\, arguing
that they are formative to the educational circuits of neoliberal globali
zation.
Her new book\, "Indebted Mobilities" (Universit
y of Chicago Press)\, is an ethnographic rendering of a group of middle-cl
ass Indian migrant men who attended a public university in New York just a
s the institution sought to “internationalize” its campus in the wake of o
ngoing withdrawals of state funding.
Marked by consider
ations of labor\, post-9/11 surveillance\, and other modes of exclusion\,
at the heart of their encounters is these young people’s relationship to d
ebt\, which becomes critical to how they make sense of their experiences a
s student-migrants. These youth may long to be modern “men of the world\,”
but "Indebted Mobilities" illuminates how the complex realities that aris
e force them to reckon with their anxieties about successful masculinities
and confront the precarity of being drawn into the global knowledge econo
my as indebted migrants. \;
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