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Published in: TechTrends 3/2017

04-04-2017 | Column: Graduate Member Musings

Student Visa Approved, Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Being a Legal Alien in American Graduate School

Authors: Tugce Aldemir, Eunsung Park

Published in: TechTrends | Issue 3/2017

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We are sharing our experiences during the acculturation process through three autoethnographic vignettes to reflect on the kind of challenges and opportunities an international graduate student can encounter. It has been more valuable, wonderful and challenging than we thought. Ready to take a huge step forward in our career, we were passionate, determined, and fearless during the application process. As we received our acceptance letters to graduate school, these feelings were accompanied by:
  • the excitement of accomplishing a long-lasting dream and opening a gate to the new experiences and opportunities,
  • the fear of unknown and loneliness, and
  • millions of questions about anything that can be imagined about moving to USA.
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Literature
Mallinckrodt, B., & Leong, F. T. (1992). International graduate students, stress, and social support. Journal of College Student Development, 33(1), 71–78.
Yeh, C. J., & Inose, M. (2003). International students' reported English fluency, social support satisfaction, and social connectedness as predictors of acculturative stress. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 16(1), 15–28.CrossRef
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Title
Student Visa Approved, Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Being a Legal Alien in American Graduate School
Authors
Tugce Aldemir
Eunsung Park
Publication date
04-04-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
TechTrends / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 8756-3894
Electronic ISSN: 1559-7075
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-017-0180-6

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