Outbound Chinese Student Mobility

In recent years it seems increasingly clear that sending children for study abroad has become one way for China's very wealthy to a hedge against political and economic uncertainties education serves as a legitimate pretext for the rich second generation. Mobile Chinese students who belong to this extremely elevated category are often highly flexible in terms of their geographical mobility which best serves the maximization of capital accumulation. For the more privileged ones typically those who have started at undergraduate levels in Anglo-Fungu West especially the US to return to China is arguably a natural or at least preferred choice because of the strong economic and social capital they can access back home. The rising trend of return returning after study abroad masks a certain emerging stratification among the