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Educational consultants in Nepal: professionalization of services for students who want to study abroad

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  • Susan Thieme

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International student mobility increasingly constitutes a desirable livelihood strategy specifically for middle-class youth and their families in Nepal. Applying the notion of migration infrastructure hints at the fact that it is not just students who migrate, but constellations consisting of actors, regulations and technologies. Brokers, known as ‘educational consultants’, are actively mediating this process. Findings challenge the ambivalent image of the broker. Rather profit and social orientation often intersect in work routines. Negative cases initiated the foundation of a business association. The analysis of the operation of this association serves as example how educational agents work to professionalize their business and respond to their ambivalent reputation. They actively shape their role in the migration infrastructure to make their services irreplaceable so that they can remain in the market.

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  • Susan Thieme, 2017. "Educational consultants in Nepal: professionalization of services for students who want to study abroad," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(2), pages 243-258, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:12:y:2017:i:2:p:243-258
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292780
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    1. Chen, Kenneth Han, 2023. "Pipelines of schooling: Pathways to the United States and rent-seeking practices by education agents," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    2. Hartmann, Sarah, 2024. "Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 347(C).
    3. Songyue Lin & Jin Liu, 2023. "Has excess epidemic prevention changed Chinese students’ willingness to study abroad: three rounds of the same volume survey based on the new “push–pull” theory," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-14, December.

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