Mengwei Tu

Swansea University | SWAN

Education-motivated migration from East Asia is regarded as a family capital accumulation project where middle class families reproduce their socioeconomic advantage at a transnational level. This study focuses on one-child generation migrants from mainland China who came to study in the UK as teenagers or young adults but remained to work as profe...

The migration of Chinese students to the UK has long been the focus of academic and policy‐making attention. However, what happens to their transnational mobility after their education remains understudied. This article unpacks the migration decision‐making process behind graduates' study‐to‐employment transition. We focus on individuals' on‐going...

The one-child generation daughters born to middle-class Chinese parents enjoy the privilege of concentrated family resources and the opportunity for education overseas. We focus on the "privileged daughters" who have studied abroad and remained overseas as professionals. Using three cases of post-student female migrants who were of different ages a...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated responses such as border closure, lockdown measures and flight controls have severely disrupted transnational infrastructures that sustain, channel, organize, and condition international migration. This infrastructural disruption has led to the double exclusion of temporary migrants from both sen...

The analysis of transnational family relations from an intergenerational to a multi‐generational perspective highlights the significant role migration infrastructure plays in transnational family care arrangements at different family life stages. Changing migration policies and local‐bound welfare systems in the host and home countries tend to fixa...

Individuals' transnational mobility trajectories are shaped by personal life stages and intertwined with migration infrastructure. In the case of international student mobility, graduates may seek to 'stay put' in the host country for career mobility. However, this mobility-immobility transition is heavily mediated by regulatory institutions, espec...

This study examines associations between sport/physical activity space, community formation, and social life among Shanghai's highly-skilled migrant demographic. There is limited illustration of roles sports and physical exercise provision and spaces play in this migrant cohort's lives, community formation, and participation in their host societies...

China’s one-child generation consists of the children and grandchildren of the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution, the economic reforms of the 1970s, the open-door policy, and the one-child policy. Suddenly, millions of young people were allowed to study overseas, and millions have done so. As these highly-educated, capital-bearing Chinese migra...

This is a chapter of my book: Education, Migration and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation

This is a chapter of my book: Education, Migration and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation

This is a chapter of my book: Education, Migration and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation

This is a chapter of my book: Education, Migration and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation

One-child transnational families are the product of the “one-child” policy, access to foreign travel, and the rise of a middle class that could afford overseas education for the only child. One result was the possibility of the only child, following its Western-based education, settling (semi)permanently in the host country. This situation raises t...