Queer Aspiration and Emotional Borders in Transnational Education

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-20761-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 375 g

Reihe: Global Gender

Queer Aspiration and Emotional Borders in Transnational Education traces the emotional and everyday worlds of queer Vietnamese students moving through transnational education across Southeast Asia.

Foregrounding fragments, pauses, and ordinary scenes over success stories, the book introduces borderfoam to describe life amid overlapping educational, legal, familial, and digital borders that never fully settle. Drawing on narrative interviews, autoethnography, and poetic reflection, it follows queer students as they navigate visas, classrooms, family expectations, and online platforms, managing disclosure, aspiration, and survival while mobility reshapes emotional life and belonging.

Queer Aspiration and Emotional Borders in Transnational Education will interest scholars, graduate students, and practitioners in international and transnational education, gender and sexuality studies, human geography, migration studies, and qualitative research.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thinh, Mai Phuc

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Dreams of Elsewhere: Queer Aspirations and the Pull of Mobility

3. The Weight of Arrival: First Frictions in Transnational Life

4. Administrative Borders and the Volumetric Closet

5. Performing Queerness in Global Classrooms

6. Return as Rupture: Queer Disorientation in Coming Back

7. Borderfoam Fragments: Autoethnography as Method and Memory

8. Conclusion – Toward a Borderfoam Subjectivity.

Über Autor(innen)

Mai Phuc Thinh is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia, and a researcher affiliated with the Center for Global Studies at Duy Tan University, Vietnam.