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Optimizing the Benefits from Schooling: School-Switching Behavior Among Return Migrants in India

In: Education and Migration in an Asian Context

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  • Adrienne Lee Atterberry

    (The Maxwell School of Syracuse University)

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This chapter examines school-switching behavior among Indian and first-generation Indian American return migrants in Bangalore, a city in southwest India. It does so by addressing the following question: Why do parents switch their children from one school to another? Through analyzing interviews with return migrant parents from 37 families, I argue that those who switch schools do so because what parents want from their children’s schooling changes as their children age. I suggest that parents make initial schooling decisions designed to ease their children’s transition to attending school in Bangalore. However, as children progress through their schooling parents become more concerned with their educational and professional futures. Thus, as their children advance through their education, parents make schooling decisions designed to give them the skills necessary to navigate future educational and professional opportunities around the globe. This chapter demonstrates how what parents want from their children’s schooling changes as their children age. This change in what they want from their children’s schooling motivates parents to switch them from one school to another.

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  • Adrienne Lee Atterberry, 2021. "Optimizing the Benefits from Schooling: School-Switching Behavior Among Return Migrants in India," Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific, in: Francis Peddie & Jing Liu (ed.), Education and Migration in an Asian Context, chapter 0, pages 115-136, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eclchp:978-981-33-6288-8_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6288-8_6
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    1. Chayanika Mitra & Indrani Sengupta & Pradeep Kumar Choudhury, 2022. "An analysis of school shifting patterns in India: what do recent data tell us?," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer;Institute for Social and Economic Change, vol. 24(2), pages 295-318, December.

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