Study Abroad Experience from Amazon

50 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT STUDYING OVERSEAS

Author: Carly Balmborth, 50 Things to Know

Publisher: Independently published

ISBN-13: 978-1794616530 

Are you thinking about studying overseas but you don’t know where to start? Have you applied to study overseas but you don’t know what to expect when you get there? Do you want to find out how to make your journey overseas easy and enjoyable? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... it offers advice on your journey to becoming an international student. This book won’t provide information about where to study or what to study. Instead, it will support you from the moment you make that final decision and will help you to prepare for your new adventure.

PREPARE FOR DEPARTURE: A GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE

Author: Shelley Story

Publisher:  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN-13: 978-1535145404

Studying abroad offers you the opportunity to see more of the world, learn another language and culture, and experience things you might not under any other circumstances. The book’s assertion is that being prepared to go abroad isn’t achieved by packing the right suitcase; it requires planning, process, and practice. You’ll walk through all three, and end up with high-quality preparation that sets you up for your best possible study abroad experience. The author managed the student life division of a study abroad program in Italy, and she draws on lessons from nine years  to help those who are headed abroad have a smoother ride.

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EQUITY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN STUDY ABROAD

Editors: Chris Glass, Peggy Gesing

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN-13: 978-0367703509

Offering empirical, theoretical, and conceptual contributions, this volume foregrounds critical reflection on the stratification of access to study abroad and examines the varied outcomes of international study in relation to graduates’ entry into domestic and international labor markets. Focusing on the experiences and outcomes of students from varied backgrounds, chapters identify a number of power imbalances relating to student race, ethnicity, religion, local and international policies and politics, and put forward valuable recommendations to ensure greater equity within the field. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, international and comparative education, and multicultural education.

AMERICAN STUDENT ABROAD, WITH RETROSPECTIVE 50 YEARS ON

Authors: Sandra S. Navarro

Publisher: Cornsilk Press

ISBN-13: 978-1736452523

Sandra S. Navarro’s 1969-1970 student-abroad experience took place when there were no computers, mobile phones, or other of the many devices and conveniences indispensable to students today. Twenty-four years after the Second World War, the European Union did not exist, though the Eastern Bloc did. Sandra tells of waltzing in a Viennese palace, traveling behind the Iron Curtain and sharing a 40-hour train ride to Athens with hundreds of migrant workers. From obtaining her first passport to hitchhiking 4,500 miles after the school year, her transformation lies at the heart of this deeply personal story.

Hispanic/Latino Diversity  From Cornell University Press

THE RACIAL POLITICS OF DIVISION

Author: Monica Gosin

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN-13: 9781501738241 

The Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami media between African Americans, “white” Cubans, and “black” Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis. Monika Gosin challenges exclusionary arguments pitting these groups against one another and depicts instead the nuanced ways in which identities have been constructed, negotiated, rejected, and reclaimed in the context of Miami's historical multiethnic tensions By looking back to interethnic conflict that foreshadowed current demographic and social trends, she provides us with lessons for current debates surrounding immigration, interethnic relations, and national belonging.

MI VOZ, MI VIDA

Editors: Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny and Christina Gomez

Publisher: Cornell University Press 

ISBN-13: 9780801473869

The stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds. Their engaging stories detail the students’ personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. They provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news.

RACE OR ETHNICITY?

Editor: Jorge J.E. Gracia

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN-13: 9780801473593

This collection of new essays explores the relation between race and ethnicity and its social and political implications. Although much work has been done on the philosophy of race in the past century in the United States, the concept of ethnicity has only recently awoken the interest of American philosophers, and the relations between race and ethnicity remain largely unexamined. The discussion is divided into two parts dealing, on the one hand, with the nature and the relation between race and ethnicity and, on the other, with the social consequences of the complex relations between them.

LATINOS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

Author: Ruth Enid Zambrana

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN-13: 9780801476570

Latinos in American Society offers the most up-to-date portrait we have of Latinos in America today. Synthesizing an increasingly substantial body of social science research, the author adopts an intersectional “social inequality lens” as a means for understanding the broader sociopolitical dynamics of the Latino family, considering ethnic subgroup diversity, community context, institutional practices, and their intersections with family processes and well-being. Zambrana, a leading expert on Latino populations in America, demonstrates the value of this approach for capturing the contemporary complexity of and transitions within diverse U.S. Latino families and communities.