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Outward and Upward Mobilities: The Global Dispersion of Students from South Korea

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Education has long been the route to social mobility and educational qualifications persist as a legitimized marker of social class. In the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea experienced rapid growth in its educational system and economy which resulted in a large middle class. Currently, the middle class is contracting and income inequality is rising. What was achieved in one generation for a large segment of the population is now at risk of being dismantled, and the middle class faces harsh competition in the educational system to keep individual families’ futures secure. As Bourdieu (1984) argues, it is the educational system that ensures the social reproduction of the upper and middle classes, and that “academic qualifications and the school system which awards them thus become one of the key stakes in an interclass competition which generates a general and continuous growth in the demand for education”.

What Bourdieu had not predicted, however, is the increasingly international and transnational character of this social field. Given the growing interconnectivity of places and people, international education has now become the symbol of distinction among members of the vast yet shrinking middle class in South Korea. And this shift fits with contemporary trends in the global movement across borders for education.

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Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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New York : SAGE., 2013

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Asian and Pacific Migration Journal Vol. 22, No. 4, 2013

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English

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Vol. 22, No. 4, 2013

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SOSIOLOGI

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