Date of Award
5-12-2024
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Sociology
Advisor(s)
Yingyi Ma
Keywords
Ethnic capital;International students;Mixed methods;Precarity;US colleges
Subject Categories
Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology
Abstract
This dissertation is a mixed methods study examining Chinese and Korean international undergraduate student satisfaction and their experiences in American higher education. Through survey methodology, I conceptualize the analytical model into “individual factors,” “institutional factors,” and “ethnic-community factors” and find out how these factors contribute to student satisfaction. Furthermore, I look at how national differences manifest into unique ways international students navigate new educational, cultural, and social settings. With in-depth interviews, I focus on understanding international student agentic experiences situated in power dynamics by looking at tensions between “deficit narrative” portraying Asian students as “inassimilable others” and student agency challenging it. To do so, this study will locate ethnic capital as a critical source of international student experience in campus life and as a new mechanism of international student agency during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a rise of anti-Asian racism on campus. Understanding international students on campus will also introduce unique ways contemporary race and immigration history interact with the global pandemic to produce vulnerability of Asian students on campus.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Lee, Sujung, "A MIXED METHODS STUDY OF CHINESE AND KOREAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SATISFACTION AND EXPERIENCE IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION" (2024). Dissertations - ALL. 1934.
https://surface.syr.edu/etd/1934
