FIRE, Volume 02, Issue 03 (2015)

<strong>BOOK REVIEW: </strong><strong>Dei, G.J.S. & Adjei, P.B. (Eds.). (2014). Emerging perspectives on 'African development': Speaking differently. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 209 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4331-2096-1.</strong>

This paper was made possible by an Insight Development Grant to the first author from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Faced with a labor shortage and low profile of diversity, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada has been making an effort to attract and retain newcomers. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological systems theory, this qualitative study investigates the challenges faced by newcomer youth, including permanent residents coming as immigrants or refugees and temporary residents with student visas or work permits, who were either already in the work force or could join it in the immediate future.

Leaders of higher education institutions are eager to identify effective internationalization strategies in today's fast-paced, interconnected global environment. International academic partnerships are a common yet understudied strategy designed to take advantage of globalization's opportunities and to meet an institution's internationalization goals. However, because these are based squarely on human interpersonal relationships, they depend heavily on the perceptions, interpretations and appropriations of those involved.

I thank Professors Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Oren Pizmony-Levy (Teachers College) for their advice and guidance, and also Professors John Kennedy (University of Kansas) and Yaojiang Shi (Shaanxi Normal University) for their feedback. All errors are my own.

This article juxtaposes world culture and policy borrowing and lending literatures to understand policy formation in China. Through reviewing China's student nutrition policy evolution since the International Conference on Nutrition in 1992 to the launch of China's landmark national rural student nutrition program in 2011, I examine what the key explanations to the policy developments in China were.

BOOK REVIEW: Ridge, Natasha. (2014). Education and the Reverse Gender Divide in the Gulf States: Embracing the Global, Ignoring the Local. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. 216 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8077-5561-7.