International Students in the Postcolonial Discourse

• In Event: Roundtable Session 59
  In Roundtable Session: Local and Global Flows: Representation, Migration, and Internationalism

Abstract

By interviewing a group of Taiwanese fellows supported by a national scholarship program for overseas study from 1960 to 2000, this research speaks to the post-colonial critiques. The experiences of these fellows not only represent a particular group of international students studying abroad in different generations, but also highlight diverse international socio-political contexts across various time eras. It is the examination of the micro and macro dimensions: individual discourses and broader international politics, that allows one to see subjects in a structure are not merely shaped passively by structures. Rather, the experiences of these fellows indicate not merely Homi Bhabha’s articulation of hybrid post-colonial discourse (1994); they further reflect what Stuart Hall’s calling for differentiating post-colonialities (1996).

Author

• Yun-Shiuan (Viola) Chen, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan