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Work abroad is the term used when a student teaches, interns, or volunteers in a foreign country through a programme. Students gain work experience while being immersed in a foreign work environment, though the position may be paid or unpaid. Dependent upon the programme, a student working abroad may live in a dormitory or apartment with other students or with a "host family", a group of people who live in that country and agree to provide student lodging. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Work abroadA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Doing kin work among Ghanaians home and abroad: A paradigm shift toICTInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: How to get a green cardThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: STUDY ABROAD AND VALUES DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL WORK STUDENTSCited 99 times
- Go sideways: Cultural VistasA closely related topic
- Go sideways: CIEEA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
STUDY ABROAD AND VALUES DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS
Ethical coherency when medical students work abroad
Enhancing social work students’ multicultural counseling competency: Can travel abroad substitute for study abroad?
Navigating Trauma Tourism in Social Work Study Abroad
Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad
SELECTION WORK WITH HAZELNUTS ABROAD AND IN RUSSIA
COMMUNITY SOCIAL WORK ABROAD: HISTORY AND MODERN DEVELOPMENT TRENDS
Fitness for Work Abroad
🆕 Influential since 2022
Doing kin work among Ghanaians home and abroad: A paradigm shift toICT
Everyday Police Work Abroad: A Story of Experience, Continuity and Change in Multilateral Missions
Live-learn-work: Experiential learning and cultural intelligence in the internship abroad
Mentors as identity work orchestrators: Facilitating migrant entrepreneur integration abroad
Identity Work and Intercultural Awareness Through Cultural Excavation: Teacher Candidates Studying Abroad
📚 Books worth reading
How to get a green cardLoida Nicolas Lewis, Len T. Ra Kate Madlansacay · 1993
Immigration made simpleBarbara Brooks Kimmel, Alan M. Lubiner · 1990
A French RestorationClive Kristen, David Johnson · 2006
Living in NorwayPatricia Crinion Bjaaland, Michael Brady · 1983- 📕Labour policy in the USSR, 1917-1928Dewar, Margaret. · 1956
The backpacker's bibleSuzanne King, Elaine Roberts · 1999
Live and work in GermanyVictoria Pybus, Greg Adams · 1992
Studying and working in GermanyJames, Peter, Peter James · 2002
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