scholarly journals The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Parvati Raghuram ◽  
Gunjan Sondhi
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
The Media ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe impact of Covid-19 on international student mobility has been noted by policy makers and the media ever since the global lockdowns started in early 2020. However, most of the concerns focus on what the drop in student mobility means for the finances of the countries and educational institutions to which students would have moved; there has been little exploration of the students’ own experiences of Covid-19. This chapter explores the entangled education, migration, and finance infrastructures that shape international student migration and how they failed the students during the pandemic. It draws on questionnaires and interviews conducted with international student migrants from a range of countries and who are registered to study in the UK to point to how migration policies, consular services, educational institutions, and travel industry all affected students. It points to how these components are entangled, and that their failure during the pandemic led to particular forms of immobility and mobility, leaving many students stuck in uncertain and precarious situations. The chapter ends by suggesting that reading the pandemic as an acute unprecedented event is important but inadequate. It is also a window into the everyday failures that the entangled infrastructures of international student mobility posed before Covid-19, how these came to be and who benefited from these infrastructures.

scholarly journals International opportunities : searching for the meaning of student migration

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Findlay ◽  
A. Stam ◽  
R. King ◽  
E. Ruiz-Gelices
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

Abstract. This paper explores aspects of the geography of international Student migration. By listening to the voices of British students we make a methodological contribution in terms of extending understanding of the intentions and values of Student migrants as developed over their life course. On the one hand, students stressed the social and cultural embeddedness of their actions, while on the other hand interviews with university staff and mobility managers pointed to the existence of other social structures that shape the networks of mobility that are available to students. Policy makers seeking to re-shape the geography of international Student mobility need to address the deeper socio-cultural forces that selectively inhibit movement although European integration processes have long paved the way for international living and work experience.

scholarly journals US Student Mobility Trends in a Global Context

2017 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Rajika Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Current Student ◽  
The Impact

Drawing upon current student mobility data, this article highlights five key developments in the field of international student mobility, with a particular focus on the United States. Trends related to specific international education initiatives are examined, as is the impact of a shifting political climate globally.

scholarly journals US Student Mobility Trends in a Global Context

2017 ◽  
pp. 2-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajika Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Current Student ◽  
The Impact

Drawing upon current student mobility data, this article highlights five key developments in the field of international student mobility, with a particular focus on the United States. Trends related to specific international education initiatives are examined, as is the impact of a shifting political climate globally.

scholarly journals Main challenges to international student mobility in the European arena

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina López-Duarte ◽  
Jane F. Maley ◽  
Marta M. Vidal-Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
High Performance ◽  
International Student ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis study analyses international student mobility (ISM) in Europe since the 1999 Bologna Declaration. International mobility of higher education students is both a driver and a consequence of the Bologna Process and emerges as a relevant issue in a wide range of research areas. This literature review develops a qualitative content analysis of the set of high-performance articles published between 2000 and 2018 and identified through a wide range of bibliometric tools: direct (first generation) citation counts; indirect or accumulated impact; early influence; adjusted impact with respect to year of publication, type of document, and discipline; and alternative metrics that measure interactions in the internet and social media. The content analysis focuses on the pending achievements and main challenges to ISM, among them: attracting non-European students to whole degree programs, the need for actual and further convergence in programs and systems to ensure real compatibility, the impact of HE ISM on the promotion of the European citizenship and consciousness, the sharp imbalance between credit and degree mobility, the need to strengthen the link between ISM and employability, the existing social selectivity in European ISM, the frequent social segregation problems faced by international students.

scholarly journals Recent Trends and Issues in International Student Mobility

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans De Wit
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Uk

Institutions of higher education recently emphasized a view of international students as a source of income generation. Like the UK and Australia, other countries have also introduced out of state fees for international students. The competition for international students has increased even among traditionally sending countries. Selected recruitment of top talents is also a trend. Reputation and employability are the pull-factors for international students: in turn, "brain drain" is a problem in developing countries at the end of the chain.

scholarly journals International Student Mobility: Trends Among Emerging Markets as Strategic tool for International Student Recruitment Officies

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (8.1) ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Isidro Fierro ◽  
Mari­a Fernanda Mina Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
International Student Recruitment

The trade of money and products is flowing freely across countries as well as knowledge. There are around five million students getting higher education outside their nations of origin, this number is three times bigger than in 1990. Nations with lacking capacity of an advanced higher education are increasing the number of students seeking for more new opportunities overseas. This new International Education environment is expanding competition among educational institutions and it is driving to more powerful strategies for recruitment based on a deep comprehension of international student mobility trends. This article was focused in five emerging countries: Nigeria, Brazil, Vietnam, and Indonesia and Saudi Arabia which have increased the number of outbound students during the last years. It is analyzed the current situation in international education, comparing the trends among the emerging countries and suggesting approaches and strategies in order to improve the recruitment models into new emerging markets.

scholarly journals Adding an International Student’s Voice to the Pandemic Discourse as Thinkers, not Subjects

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
Sarah Jane Lipura
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
Student Voice ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Critical Relation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

As of this writing, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international higher education is continuously being documented, drawing enough, if not too much, attention towards international students. However, the voices of international students remain muted such that much of what has been said about their experience do not directly come from them but from those who claim to speak on their behalf. In this essay, I attempt to add an international student voice to the pandemic discourse by shifting attention to international students not as subjects but as thinkers and co-producers of knowledge in their own right, in hope of also contributing to the broader conversation about ethics and responsibility surrounding international education and international student mobility research and practice. I do so by sharing my own reflections on the crisis and its critical relation to power, stillness and humanness.

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