From imagined community to imagined social space: The case of three international students Soltani, B and Tran, Ly 2021, From imagined community to imagined social space: The case of three international students, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 123-143, doi: 10.1386/tjtm_00036_1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title From imagined community to imagined social space: The case of three international students Author(s) Soltani, B Tran, Ly orcid.org/0000-0001-6543-6559 Journal name Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration Volume number 5 Issue number 2 Start page 123 End page 143 Total pages 26 Publisher Intellect Ltd Place of publication Bistol, Eng. Publication date 2021 ISSN 2397-7140 2397-7159 Summary Drawing on the concepts of imagined community and production of space, this article introduces the concept of imagined social space to understand hopes, dreams, worries, fears, sadness and happiness of three international students who have left their homelands to study in an unfamiliar academic social space. Data from qualitative in-depth interviews with three focal participants from an ethnographic study in a tertiary institution are presented to show that students’ desires, goals and future aspirations are determined by the interplay between social relationships and social conditions governing the social space. The findings of the study give insights into the development of an academic social space framework to capture the dynamic interactions of students’ investments, positionings and negotiations in their imagined space that can shape and reshape their identities. Language eng DOI 10.1386/tjtm_00036_1 HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30160189 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 16 Dec 2021, 20:46:15 EST Fri, 17 Dec 2021, 11:44:28 EST Fri, 14 Jan 2022, 05:04:18 EST Sat, 05 Feb 2022, 01:45:34 EST Wed, 09 Feb 2022, 13:04:34 EST Wed, 09 Feb 2022, 14:59:04 EST Wed, 09 Feb 2022, 15:21:19 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 36 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 16 Dec 2021, 20:46:15 EST