First published in 2017 by

      Berghahn Books

      www.berghahnbooks.com

      © 2017, 2020 Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb

      First paperback edition published in 2020

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Doerr, Neriko Musha, 1967- editor. | Davis Taïeb, Hannah, editor.

      Title: The romance of crossing borders : studying and volunteering abroad / edited by Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb.

      Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017. | Includes index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016053198 (print) | LCCN 2016058381 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785333583 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781785333590 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Foreign study—Social aspects. | Volunteerism—Social aspects. | International education—Social aspects. | College students—Intellectual life. | Educational anthropology.

      Classification: LCC LB2375 .R66 2017 (print) | LCC LB2375 (ebook) | DDC 370.116/2—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016053198

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      ISBN 978-1-78533-358-3 (hardback)

      ISBN 978-1-78920-833-7 paperback

      ISBN 978-1-78533-359-0 (ebook)

      For the McChesneys, my counselor, Priests, Strands, Davises, and Parkers, my host families, and all my friends in Kapiti Coast, Aotearoa/New Zealand, my beloved study abroad destination.

      —Neirko Musha Doerr

      For my colleagues at the CIEE Paris center, for my fellow resident directors throughout the world, and for my trusted US colleagues, with gratitude for all the wonderful conversations that inspired me to reflect on our practice.

      —Hannah Davis Taïeb

      Contents

       List of Tables

       Preface: The Romance of Study Abroadx

       Michael Woolf

       Acknowledgements

       Part I. Introduction

       Chapter 1. Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our Project

       Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb

       Chapter 2. Study Abroad and Its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the Field

       Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr

       Part II. Studying with(out) Passion: Study Abroad and Affect

       Chapter 3. Passionate Displacements into Other Tongues and Towns: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Shifting into a Second Language

       Karen Rodriguez

       Chapter 4. Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape and Affect in an African Mobility Experience

       Bradley Rink

       Chapter 5. Thinking Through the Romance

       Hannah Davis Taïeb, with Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim, and Kaitlin Rosenblum

       Chapter 6. Falling In/Out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study Abroad

       Neriko Musha Doerr

       Chapter 7. Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of Self

       Yuri Kumagai

       Part III. Serving with Passion: Romantic Images of Self and Other in Volunteering Abroad

       Chapter 8. One Smile, One Hug: Romanticizing “Making a Difference” to Oneself and Others through English-Language Voluntourism

       Cori Jakubiak

       Chapter 9. “People with Pants”: Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall Islands

       Ruochen Richard Li

       Conclusion

       Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr

       Student Photo Essay

       Morgan Greer, Lee-Anna John, Richard Suarez, Carla Villacís

       Index

Tables

       Table 4.1. Analysis of student responses (retrospective perception)

       Table 4.2. Analysis of student responses (current perception)

       Table 9.1. Research Study Participants—Returned WorldTeach Marshall Islands Volunteers and Demographic Information

       Table 9.2. Participants’ Interview Transcripts

Preface

      The Romance of Study Abroad

      Michael Woolf

      There are broadly three concepts covered by the word “romance”: romance as a courtship process, as an artistic sensibility, and as a kind of fanciful delusion. In all three, there are demonstrable connections with study abroad. The essays in this collection, explicitly or implicitly, explore these connections that, by way of introduction, I will categorize as “love at first sight/site,” as