PATRIOTIC AND PRAGMATIC. TRANSNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT OF CURRENT AND FORMER INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FROM KAZAKHSTAN IN THE US

Abstract

International students are generally neglected as a type of migrating population in the literature. However, building on transnationalism theory in migration studies, the present thesis demonstrates that current and former international students resemble modern transnational migrants. They meaningfully connect the country of study and origin and involve themselves in transnational practices...