The book explores the internationalization of higher education as a key indicator of global integration, particularly focusing on the UK's policies from 1997 to 2010 under the "New Labour" government. It highlights how the UK aimed to enhance its educational prestige by welcoming international students and integrating them into the curriculum. Additionally, it discusses the broader migration strategies employed by leaders like Blair and Brown, emphasizing the promotion of liberal market economy principles and equal access to labor markets and benefits for EU migrants.
When Oksana's family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school, not realizing that the street they're walking down is known as Prostitute Street. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life--and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting herself in trouble. As she grows up, she continues to misbehave, from somewhat accidentally maiming the school bus bully, to stealing the much-coveted (and expensive-to-replace) key to New York City's Gramercy Park, to falling in love with a married man
"Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be, anyway), and a host to her husband's greasy-haired, useless best friend, Stas, who has been staying with them in Brooklyn. When Natasha asks Larissa to tell the story of her family's Soviet wartime escape from the Nazis in Kiev, Larissa reluctantly agrees. Perhaps Natasha is just looking for distraction from her own life, but Larissa is desperate to make her happy, even though the story hurts to tell. But as she recounts the three-year period when she fled with her difficult sister, their parents, and grandmother to an abandoned army village in the Ural Mountains, and the series of unfortunate events that occurred there, such as near starvation, a cholera outbreak, a tragic suicide, and a complex love triangle with two brothers from a privileged family - neither Larissa nor Natasha can anticipate how loudly these lessons of the past will echo in their present moments. Navigating between Larissa and Natasha's perspectives, then and now, Something Unbelievable explores with piercing wit and tender feeling just how much our circumstances shape our lives and what we pass along to the younger generations, willingly or not."--Provided by publisher
Die Internationalisierung der Hochschulbildung wird als ein Zeichen globaler Integrationsprozesse betrachtet, insbesondere seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hochschulsysteme erlangten Prestige durch den Zugang internationaler Studierender und ein integriertes Curriculum. Im Vereinigten Königreich förderte die Regierung von New Labour zwischen 1997 und 2010 aktiv den Zustrom internationaler Studierender sowie anderer Migranten, um liberal marktwirtschaftliche Prinzipien zu stärken, darunter der freie Zugang von EU-Ausländern zum britischen Arbeitsmarkt und öffentlichen Gütern.
