Re-entry cultural adaptation of foreign-educated academics at Chinese universities

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume20
dc.contributor.authorLi M
dc.contributor.authorCroucher S
dc.contributor.authorWang M
dc.date.available2020-12-01
dc.date.issued2020-12-01
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the re-entry acculturative experiences and challenges facing foreign-educated returnees working at Chinese universities. Fifteen returnees from five universities in a southwestern province of China participated in semi-structured interviews. The study, using the ABC theoretical framework, highlights the acculturative process of returned academics in terms of role expectations, transformed identities, and cultural learning. The process involves challenges and unmet expectations, including low salaries, heavy workloads, unsupportive administrative bureaucracy, political control, and lack of a healthy academic community culture. The findings show that re-entry acculturation is a never-ending process. Returnees need constantly to realign their expectations and to negotiate and reinterpret shifting realities.
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dc.edition.editionNovember 2020
dc.format.extent1 - 16 (16)
dc.identifierhttps://immi.se/oldwebsite/20-3-54/Li-Reentry-54-1.html
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Intercultural Communication, 2020, November 2020, 20 (3), pp. 1 - 16 (16)
dc.identifier.elements-id436044
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1404-1634
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherImmigrantinstitutet
dc.publisher.urihttps://immi.se/oldwebsite/20-3-54/Li-Reentry-54-1.html
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Intercultural Communication
dc.rights(The Authors) CC BY 4.0
dc.subjectcultural identity
dc.subjectcultural integration
dc.subjectknowledge transfer
dc.subjectre-entry acculturation
dc.subjectreturned academics
dc.subject.anzsrc20 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.titleRe-entry cultural adaptation of foreign-educated academics at Chinese universities
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
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