Legal status experience of foreign students returnees from immigration center: a case study

This study presents a qualitative insight of legal status experience of foreign students’ returnees from immigration center. Convenience sampling was applied in the study, and in-depth semi-structured interview was adopted to collect specific data among selected eleven (11) undergraduate foreign stu...

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Main Authors: Olutokunbo, Adekalu Samuel, Tanimoonwo, Idowu Grace, Cephas, Oluwaseyitan Rotimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14881/1/Legal%20status%20experience%20of%20foreign%20students%20returnees%20from%20immigration%20center%20a%20case%20study.pdf
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author Olutokunbo, Adekalu Samuel
Tanimoonwo, Idowu Grace
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description This study presents a qualitative insight of legal status experience of foreign students’ returnees from immigration center. Convenience sampling was applied in the study, and in-depth semi-structured interview was adopted to collect specific data among selected eleven (11) undergraduate foreign students, studying at a private university college, who were released from leggeng immigration deportation camp, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Data were analyzed, and findings as themes were developed. Results of the study were classified into two categories. The first category indicates, the legal status challenges encountered by the students in the university. The second category reveals the students experience in the deportation camp. The study recommends with remarkable conclusion among others; initiatives to improve immigration collective services, roles of educators and school administration on foreign students’ supports services, and further suggested with a clarion call for more government supports, to improve the conditions of immigration deportation camp in Malaysia.
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spelling upm.eprints-148812019-05-08T07:27:56Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14881/ Legal status experience of foreign students returnees from immigration center: a case study Olutokunbo, Adekalu Samuel Tanimoonwo, Idowu Grace Cephas, Oluwaseyitan Rotimi This study presents a qualitative insight of legal status experience of foreign students’ returnees from immigration center. Convenience sampling was applied in the study, and in-depth semi-structured interview was adopted to collect specific data among selected eleven (11) undergraduate foreign students, studying at a private university college, who were released from leggeng immigration deportation camp, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Data were analyzed, and findings as themes were developed. Results of the study were classified into two categories. The first category indicates, the legal status challenges encountered by the students in the university. The second category reveals the students experience in the deportation camp. The study recommends with remarkable conclusion among others; initiatives to improve immigration collective services, roles of educators and school administration on foreign students’ supports services, and further suggested with a clarion call for more government supports, to improve the conditions of immigration deportation camp in Malaysia. Science Publishing Group 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14881/1/Legal%20status%20experience%20of%20foreign%20students%20returnees%20from%20immigration%20center%20a%20case%20study.pdf Olutokunbo, Adekalu Samuel and Tanimoonwo, Idowu Grace and Cephas, Oluwaseyitan Rotimi (2014) Legal status experience of foreign students returnees from immigration center: a case study. Science Journal of Education, 2 (5). pp. 152-157. ISSN 2329-0900; ESSN: 2329-0897 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=197&doi=10.11648/j.sjedu.20140205.13 10.11648/j.sjedu.20140205.13
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