Let me Fly Abroad: Student Migrations in the Context of Nepal

Milan Shrestha,Min Kumar Tamang

doi:10.46303/repam.2021.1

Abstract

Student migration has been increasing over recent years in Nepal. The increasing numbers of students leave the country to the developed countries for their higher education with the hope of getting practical skills and knowledge and other valuable experiences to enhance their future carrier. This paper intends to explore the motivation, aspirations, and excitements among international students while flying abroad to pursue their higher education from the developed countries. In doing so, we adopted a narrative inquiry assuming that the stories of student mobility and its outcome challenge the educational and employment aspirations of youth in Nepal. The aspirations among international students encourage them to fly abroad due to the expectation of handsome earning and pursuing a foreign degree. Moreover, this paper also highlights the motivation of prospective students and their desire to fly abroad for their academic journey.

Highlights

The motivation to explore the stories of migrant students started with my own reflection into the year 2009 when, as a young desperate student, I moved to one of the international universities in the United Kingdom (UK)
Several questions were playing in our mind as researchers like; How do the students gain such immense excitement to o go abroad for further studies? Why are they motivated to fly abroad to study in the foreign universities? How do the international students experience the socio-cultural challenges while flying abroad to pursue their higher education? How do they prepare themselves for an abroad study in developed countries? Despite the prospect of exploring a number of questions relating to the stories of international migrant students, the study is focused only on uncovering the excitements, motivations and aspirations while flying abroad to pursue higher education in developed countries. Concerning these questions, we only address few which are: How students were motivated to fulfill their higher education dream abroad? How do the students narrate the stories of their excitement towards study abroad? From these above questions, we have determined the crucial question which needs to be addressed is “How do the Nepali students narrate their motivation, and excitements while flying abroad to pursuing higher education in the developed countries?” as issues of this study
Resham’s American Dream: Motivation for Pursing Higher Study and Socio-economic Prosperity Most of the students from the developing countries are motivated and excited to pursue both for their higher education and the socio-economic developments towards the international University (Turcan & Pirgaru, 2019)

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Introduction

The motivation to explore the stories of migrant students started with my own reflection into the year 2009 when, as a young desperate student, I moved to one of the international universities in the United Kingdom (UK). I completed my master-level study in the discipline of international management from the University of Teesside, UK, garnering valuable experiences and confidence to start up my own business in my homeland Nepal. As a young student migrant, I spent 6 years in the UK and returned to Nepal in 2014 thinking that I would lead an educational consultancy and provide counseling to the young students who aspire to go abroad. Immediately after my return, I was able to outset my own educational consultancy company in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.

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