The growing volume of international students has attracted research interest on their return experiences and the potential impacts of their overseas education in their home countries. This paper uses the notion of aspiration to investigate international students’ return experiences in connection to their motivations and perceived gains from studying abroad. Interviews with Filipino returnees who completed their postgraduate studies in Europe suggest that their plans to study abroad involved aspirations to return to the Philippines for different reasons, including career and family-related factors. Their aspirations also reflect their desired contributions to their respective occupational fields in the country. Their narratives of returning to the workplace, however, reveal institutional factors that either facilitate or constrain the transfer of ideas, knowledge and practices gained from their experiences abroad. Findings point to how returnees' workplace experiences, in turn, reshape their career aspirations and migration intentions.

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回到菲律宾：将国际学生移民中的愿望、返回和社会汇款联系起来

越来越多的国际学生吸引了关于他们的回国经历和他们在本国海外教育的潜在影响的研究兴趣。本文使用抱负的概念来调查国际学生的回国经历与他们的动机和从国外学习中获得的感知收益有关。对在欧洲完成研究生学习的菲律宾海归者的采访表明，他们出国留学的计划涉及出于不同原因返回菲律宾的愿望，包括职业和家庭相关因素。他们的抱负也反映了他们对本国各自职业领域的期望贡献。然而，他们重返职场的叙述，揭示促进或限制从他们的国外经验中获得的思想、知识和实践转移的制度因素。调查结果表明，海归的工作经历反过来又如何重塑了他们的职业抱负和移民意图。