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The Nation‐State, Public Education, and the Logic of Migration: Chinese Students in Hungary
Author(s) -
Nyíri Pál
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the australian journal of anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1757-6547
pISSN - 1035-8811
DOI - 10.1111/j.1835-9310.2006.tb00046.x
Subject(s) - globality , state (computer science) , ideology , curriculum , political science , international education , chinese education , sociology , public administration , higher education , china , globalization , law , politics , algorithm , computer science
Public education remains the nation‐state's foremost instrument of forging citizens. But the emergence of ‘international education’, a system explicitly based on the ideology of globality and outside the purview of national curricula, provides a way to circumvent the citizen‐making machine. This article, based on fieldwork among Chinese secondary school students in Hungary, considers the interaction between ‘international education’ and transnational migrants in a nation‐state whose public education, as the state itself, has little interest in the ‘integration’ of non‐natives.