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%T Mobile Students from Kazakhstan: Migration for Education or Education for Emigration? %A Nassimova, Gulnar %A Buzurtanova, Marem %A Smagulov, Kadyrzhan %A Kartashov, Kirill %J Studies of Transition States and Societies %N 2 %P 51-69 %V 13 %D 2021 %K educational migration; migratory trajectory; mobile students; education for emigrational purposes; migration for educational purposes %@ 1736-8758 %U http://publications.tlu.ee/index.php/stss/article/view/946/777 %X The article discusses the results of an empirical sociological study on the migratory trajectories of mobile students from Kazakhstan. The study included a series of in-depth interviews and a survey aimed at establishing why they decided to study abroad, how they chose the country to study, and what they were planning to do upon graduation. The ‘push-pull plus’ model was applied to bridge economic and sociological aspects of educational migration from Kazakhstan and to overcome structure-agency dichotomy. Profiles of mobile students across three types of migratory trajectories were developed: Immediate Returnees migrating for educational purposes, i.e. maximisation of utility; Deferred Returnees, whose rational choice is combined with desire and aspiration; and Definite Non-returnees, for whom education is a means of emigration prompted by deprivation due to the situation in the home country, which creates predisposing and proximate drivers. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info