Intra-Asian student mobility is an emerging phenomenon little studied in the literature on the globalization of tertiary education. This paper examines the flow of students from the People’s Republic of China to Malaysia, based on a large-scale survey of 888 respondents, as well as in-depth interviews with 80 informants. It addresses three empirical questions: who comes, why Malaysia and what…
Since 1978, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) re-opened the door to the world from which its people had been hermetically sealed for almost half a century, millions of Chinese have ventured out, in what has been termed the “New Chinese Migration.” This contemporary global Chinese migration differs significantly from the “old.” Whereas the bulk of the “old” migration heade…