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Consuming Overseas Schooling: An Act of Parental Love?

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Thus far, the book has mostly considered the extrinsic factors such as status expression and status claiming that are motivating Nigerian elite parents ’ consumption of overseas schooling . The final data chapter explores other equally important motivating factors such as parental love and parental responsibility influencing these parents’ decision to send their primary and/or secondary school-aged children overseas for their education. This is a significant departure from Bourdieu ’s broader analysis of social class relation, whereby consumption decisions are often understood as extrinsically motivated. The chapter concludes by arguing that there are multiple interacting and competing reasons for why elite Nigerian parents educate their primary and/or secondary school-aged children overseas.

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Ayling, P. (2019). Consuming Overseas Schooling: An Act of Parental Love?. In: Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5781-7_8

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