Transnational Concerted Cultivation and School-Choice: Examining Return Migrants' School-Choice Decisions

• In Event: 1552 - Section on Asia and Asian America Roundtable Session
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 min): Table 5: Global/Transnational Education

Abstract

This article examines how high-skilled, return migrant parents navigate K-12 educational options in Bangalore, a city in southwest India. It does so by addressing the following question: What factors do they consider when making their school-choice decisions? Through analyzing interviews with 36 return migrant parents, I argue that they make school-choice decisions according to the logic of transnational concerted cultivation. This is a parenting technique designed to give youth the skills necessary to navigate educational and professional options around the globe. Return migrants enact this parenting logic by making school-choice decisions based on the types of cultural capital they would like their children to acquire, their children’s interests, and where they will go for college.

Author

• Adrienne Lee Atterberry, SUNY-New Paltz