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Please join us at tomorrow’s Anthropology Research Seminar (1pm GMT) as we welcome Dr Karen Valentin from Aarhus University, who will be presenting a paper on ‘Moving to learn: Education, migration and the negotiation of class positions’ (abstract and zoom below). All welcome! Moving to learn: Education, migration and the negotiation of class positions With a steady rise in the number of Nepalese youth seeking to pursue an education abroad, especially in Australia and North America, transnational student migration has attained an increasingly prominent role in the migratory landscape of Nepal. This reflects a new type of migration enabled by a commodified, international education market, which the aspiring middle-class can buy into, and which has made education abroad available to segments of the Nepali society to whom it was completely out of reach two decades ago. However, for Nepalis living outside the urban centres, geographical mobility, short or long distance, has long been a precondition for obtaining a school education above primary level. So, what is new is not the necessity to move for education, but the scale and character. Based on longitudinal ethnographic studies on the relationship between education and migration in Nepal and ‘beyond,’ this presentation will examine the changing educational landscape from the perspective of interrelated social and geographical mobility processes. It will do so by tying together material from my early studies on educational strategies in a squatter settlement in Kathmandu (during the second half of the 1990s) and later studies on student migration from Nepal to Denmark. The ethnographic cases will shed light, firstly, on the multiple and often overlapping reasons that make people move for education and which make parents send away their children for education; secondly, on the relationship between education, migration and the negotiation of class positions. The presentation, thus, extends analytical and methodological discussion of ‘educational locations,’ both in relation to geographical sites of educational practice and social sites, i.e. contexts in which ideas of and expectations to education are produced. ---------------- Brunel Anthropology Research Seminar (Tuesdays, 1300-1430) https://bruneluniversity.zoom.us/j/94636486877 Meeting ID: 946 3648 6877 Passcode: 8184007563 Dr James Staples, Anthropology, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH STUDENT FEEDBACK AND CONSULTATION HOURS: Please email for an appointment Website: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/james-staples ************************************************************* Anthropology Matters is a network of the ASA, who administer this list. https://anthropologymatters.com and https://theasa.org AM is used to communicate with postgraduate & postdoctoral anthropologists working in the UK and abroad to provide alerts to: new issues of the Open Access Anthropology Matters journal, and events of anthropological interest in the UK anthropology community such as conferences and seminars or funding opportunities. Join the list or view archived messages: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters To email the list use: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe please click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 **************************************************************