Anju Mary Paul

Asian Scientists on the Move

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is ideal not only for migration scholars, science and technology studies scholars, policymakers, and university leaders, but also for practicing scientists and students of science. It explains how Asian scientist migrations are changing and being changed by the evolving scientific arena in China, India, Singapore and Taiwan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781108845618
• ISBN-10: 1108845614
• Artikelnr.: 62304445

Autorenporträt

Anju Mary Paul is an international migration scholar with a research focus on emergent migration patterns to, from and within Asia. Her previous books include the award-winning Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) and Local Encounters in a Global City (Ethos Books 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Contexts: 1. Introduction
2. Four Case Studies of Science in Asia
Part II. Circulations: 3. Leaving Home, Heading West
4. Learning Science in the West
5. Return to the Future or the Past?
6. Asian Women Scientists on the Move
Part III. Consequences: 7. New Scientific Research Systems in a Changing Asia
8. Shifting Scientific Cultures in a Changing Asia
9. Conclusion.