Preface
Wei Li, Lucia Lo, and Yixi Lu
Introduction: the intellectual migration analytics
Wei Li, Lucia Lo, and Yixi Lu
1. To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions
Yixi Lu, Jason Jean, and Zheng Lu
2. Students on the move? Intellectual migration and international student mobility
Lucia Lo, Wei Li, and Yining Tan
3. Intellectual capital and student mobility
Yining Tan, Lucia Lo, Wei Li, and Guanglong Pang
4. The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on motivation to stay: a comparison between Chinese and non-Chinese international students in Nova Scotia, Canada
Eugena Kwon, Min-Jung Kwak, Gowoon Jung, Steven Smith, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Emmanuel Kyeremeh, and Michael Zhang
5. International students in China: regional distribution and macro-influencing factors
Zheng Lu, Yixi Lu, Lucia Lo, Haihua Zhu, and Jason Jean
6. China-born scholars’ intellectual capital: a network approach
Xiaojie Li
7. Global education trajectories and inequality: STEM workers from China to the US
Siqiao Xie
8. Comparing Chinese academic returnees in Chengdu and Guangzhou: reasons for return, choice of destination, and onward migration intention
Yixi Lu, Jason Jean, and Ling Ma
9. Skilled US migrants in the Pearl River Delta Region: the rise of an intellectual gateway in China
Yining Tan, and Wei Li
Biography
Wei Li is Professor at the School of Social Transformation and the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
Lucia Lo is Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Yixi Lu is Associate Professor at the Research Institute of Social Development at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China.
