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Homeward Bound: What does a Global Legal Education offer the Indian Returnees
2011
Publisher
Fordham Law Review
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This Article studies the effects of an international credential for migrants who return to their home country—in this case, students who return to India with a U.S. LL.M (graduate law) degree. Borrowing a framework from social psychology and organizational theory, it argues that international students with American law degrees who return to their countries of origin do not always benefit from the credential. Instead, trends from qualitative interview data suggest that repatriating an international credential—however prestigious—is a fluid process that requires emphasizing or obscuring the credential depending on the interactional context.