1st Edition
Queer Aspiration and Emotional Borders in Transnational Education
By Mai Phuc Thinh
Copyright 2027
154 Pages
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Routledge
Queer Aspiration, Belonging, and Emotional Borders in Transnational Education: Floating in the Borderfoam traces the emotional and everyday worlds of queer Vietnamese students moving through transnational education across Southeast Asia.
Foregrounding fragments, pauses, and ordinary scenes over success stories, the book introduces borderfoam to describe life amid overlapping educational,... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Dreams of Elsewhere: Queer Aspirations and the Pull of Mobility
3. The Weight of Arrival: First Frictions in Transnational Life
4. Administrative Borders and the Volumetric Closet
5. Performing Queerness in Global Classrooms
6. Return as Rupture: Queer Disorientation in Coming Back
7. Borderfoam Fragments: Autoethnography as Method and Memory
8. Conclusion – Toward a Borderfoam Subjectivity.
Biography
Mai Phuc Thinh is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia, and a researcher affiliated with the Center for Global Studies at Duy Tan University, Vietnam.
