Asian Migration and Education Cultures in the Anglosphere

Megan Watkins is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society and the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her research interests lie in the cultural analysis of education and the formation of human subjectivities, in particular how different cultural practices can engender divergent habits and dispositions to learning.Christina Ho is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where she researches migration and cultural diversity. Her current work focuses on education, diversity and inequality, and the politics of urban inter-cultural relations.Rose Butler is an ARC DECRA Fellow and sociologist of childhood and youth at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on class and culture, multiculturalism and globalisation, schooling and social change, and rural livelihoods. She is currently investigating the changing landscape of rural multicultures for young people.

• Introduction: Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglo-sphere 1. ‘We are all Asian here’: multiculturalism, selective schooling and responses to Asian success 2. Why class matters less for Asian-American academic achievement 3. The construction of British Chinese educational success: exploring the shifting discourses in educational debate, and their effects 4. The new meritocracy or over-schooled robots? Public attitudes on Asian–Australian education cultures 5. Representations of East Asian students in the UK media 6. Race and legitimacy: historical formations of academically selective schooling in Australia 7. Education, real estate, immigration: brokerage assemblages and Asian mobilities 8. ‘Tutored within an inch of their life’: morality and ‘old’ and ‘new’ middle class identities in Australian schools 9. Academic segregation and the institutional success frame: unequal schooling and racial disparity in an integrated, affluent community 10. Indian tigers: what high school selection by parents pursing academic performance reveals about class, culture and migration 11. ‘Asian fails’ and the problem of bad Korean boys: multiculturalism and the construction of an educational ‘problem’