Educating Children from Cross-Border Marriages

This book analyses how children from transnational Japanese-Singaporean families are educated. The author demonstrates that the negotiated educational pathways of these children have significant bearing on the ways in which individual identities of mixedness may be constructed or contested where notions of mixedness are necessarily recognised for their inherent fluidity, contextuality and contingency. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of education, neoliberalism, globalization, multiculturalism, mobility and cross-border migration.

Analyses the unique experiences of Japanese-Singaporean mixed marriages and children's schooling trajectories Draws wider conclusions about Japan's cultural influence throughout Southeast Asia Provides directions for the transformation of education to account for students' borderland identities and experiences

Autorentext

Glenn Toh is Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Backgrounding Japanese-Singaporean Families: Discourses, Histories, and Ecologies.- Chapter 2: Japanese Identity Discourses: Homogeneity Versus Heterogeneity.- Chapter 3: Singaporean Identity Discourses: Narratives and Questionings of Racialization and Cultural Diversity.- Chapter 4: Navigating the Japanese and Singaporean Systems of Schooling: Challenges, Choices, and Enigmas.- Chapter 5: Families of Japanese Heritage Mixed Marriages in Singapore: Educational Trajectories and Lived Stories.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Enabling the Imagination and Anticipating the Future.