scholarly journals The Impact of Intercultural Exchange on Secondary School Exchange Students and Their Host Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 912-933
Author(s):  
Manca Sustarsic
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exchange Students ◽  
Culture Learning ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Host Families

The last decade has seen a significant increase of international student mobility and a growing popularity of secondary school exchange programs in the United States and around the world. Drawing upon culture learning theory, the purpose of this study is to understand the impacts, challenges, and rewards of intercultural exchange on secondary school exchange students and their host families. I performed a case study of in-depth interviews with six students who were placed in Hawai’i for an academic year on the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Future Leaders Exchange merit-based scholarships, as well as interviews with their volunteer host families. Findings show that intercultural exchange occurs as a two-way process. Both students and host families reap the benefits of intercultural exchange by way of active interaction and culture sharing that is enhanced by a positive student–host relationship. 

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 Navigating Through Uncertainty in the Era of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manca Sustarsic ◽  
Jianhui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Research University ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
International Graduate ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

With the spread of COVID-19 around the world, the lives of international students became affected by a sudden shift to online learning, sheltering in place, and travel restrictions. Drawing upon the stress and coping framework, this study explores the experiences and coping of international graduate students at a large Western research university in the United States. We employed a phenomenological inquiry of in-depth interviews with 20 participants. Findings reveal the increased levels of stress and anxiety among participants as they faced academic challenges, personal challenges, and immigration-related uncertainties. Over time, students developed emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies to minimize the impact of the pandemic on their lives. Participants’ concerns about the host country’s treatment of international students raise important questions about the future of international student mobility. Finally, this study demonstrates the need to develop emergency responding mechanisms of the host institution.

scholarly journals EDUCATIONAL MIGRATION OF CHINESE STUDENTS: CORONAVIRUS FACTOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
А.А. Abzhapparova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
The Impact

The article examines the dynamics of educational migration of Chinese students and the impact of the threat of the spread of "coronavirus" on student migration from China. China is one of the leading countries that send students to study abroad. By the end of the last decade, the number of Chinese students abroad had become the largest group of international students in the world. The deadly coronavirus outbreak has had a major impact on international student mobility. Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Singapore were among the countries that have banned entry for foreigners leaving China since the beginning of February 2020, while thousands of Chinese students have returned to China. The article is written within the framework of the scientific project of the Ministry of education and science of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Educational migration from Kazakhstan: factors, trends and socio-political consequences"

“We See the World Different Now”: Remapping Assumptions About International Student Adaptation

2019 ◽  
pp. 102831531986136
Author(s):  
Tiago Bittencourt ◽  
Christopher Johnstone ◽  
Millicent Adjei ◽  
Laura Seithers
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
Personal Transformations ◽  
Group Members

Student mobility has become a key feature in the drive toward internationalization of higher education in the United States. International students contribute to the academic culture of universities, yet, often face isolation, discrimination, and experience difficulties transitioning to new environments. As a result, conational networks have formed to provide support to international students in foreign institutions. This article examines the different ways membership in a conational support group mediated international students’ experiences in a university campus. Contrary to theories that suggest insularity such as fortressing and cultural enclaves, our findings suggest that conational groups are sites of creative potential where group members are consistently forging complex assemblages between norms that are familiar and experiences that are new. Although significant personal transformations ensue as a result of these assemblages, they are occurring in a setting and a pace that is determined by group members and perceived to be safe. We argue that conational groups should not be conceived as static spaces that reproduce cultural norms, but rather as sites of contestation and cultural negotiation. Based on these findings, we question whether “integration” should be a guiding institutional logic for international student engagement, suggesting instead an approach based on the concept of “inclusion.”

Analysis of the U.S. Student Visa System

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Urias ◽  
Carol Camp Yeakey
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Entry And Exit ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Comprehensive Compilation

Given the political, economic, and social events surrounding 9/11, the major issue addressed concerns the impact of federal legislation on international students/scholars. The study explored several research questions that can be summarized as, What are the relevant laws affecting international student study in the United States, and What are the consequences of having those laws? To date, there has not been a comprehensive compilation identifying such regulations nor an analysis and charting of the broader public policy at various levels of implementation. This article attempts to do this. Sifting through the miasma of regulations, certain themes emerge from the analysis: philosophical changes, entry and exit registration, intended and unintended consequences, impact on Arab and Muslim students, effects on U.S. citizens, and emergent problems.

scholarly journals International Student Mobility in the United States

2015 ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Farrugia ◽  
Ashley Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Campus ◽  
International Educational Exchange ◽  
The Past ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
The U.S

The number of globally mobile students has nearly doubled over the past ten years, from 2.1 million students in 2001 to 4.1 million students in 2011. According to Open Doors 2012: Report on International Educational Exchange, the U.S. hosted 764,795 international students in 2011/12, an increase of 3.7 percent from the previous year. International students in the U.S. now make up 19 percent of the world's globally mobile students, and as university campus enrollments grow, so does the proportion of students enrolling in them from abroad. The number of U.S. students studying abroad reached 273,996 in 2010/11, an increase of 1.3 percent over the prior year and an increase of 78 percent over the past ten years.

scholarly journals A Tight Spot: How Personality Moderates the Impact of Social Norms on Sojourner Adaptation

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Geeraert ◽  
Ren Li ◽  
Colleen Ward ◽  
Michele Gelfand ◽  
Kali A. Demes
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Exchange Students ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Country Culture ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact

How do you navigate the norms of your new culture when living abroad? Taking an interactionist perspective, we examined how contextual factors and personality traits jointly affect sojourners’ adaptation to the host-country culture. We hypothesized that tightness (strong, rigidly imposed norms) of the host culture would be associated with lower levels of adaptation and that tightness of the home culture would be associated with higher levels of adaptation. Further, we proposed that the impact of tightness should be dependent on personality traits associated with navigating social norms (agreeableness, conscientiousness, and honesty-humility). We analyzed longitudinal data from intercultural exchange students ( N = 889) traveling from and to 23 different countries. Multilevel modeling showed that sojourners living in a tighter culture had poorer adaptation than those in a looser culture. In contrast, sojourners originating from a tighter culture showed better adaptation. The negative effect of cultural tightness was moderated by agreeableness and honesty-humility but not conscientiousness.

scholarly journals The influence of international mobility programmes on nursing students' personal and professional development

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-288
Author(s):  
Igor Karnjuš ◽  
Mirko Prosen ◽  
Boško Krivičić ◽  
Sabina Ličen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Student mobility programmes have become a valuable instrument in student education as they enable the acquisition of essential knowledge, skills and attitudes, and equip the individual more effectively to work in the globalised world. The aim of the study was to examine the impact of international exchange programmes on the personal and professional development of undergraduate nursing students.Methods: A quantitative secondary analysis was conducted. The primary data were collected in 2016 as part of the study entitled International Nursing Student Exchange – Comparison Between Slovene and Foreign Students. The sample in the secondary analysis consisted of 73 nursing students from Slovenia and other European countries. The questionnaire included 20 statements which were rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1-strongly disagree to 5-strongly agree). The data were described on the basis of calculated mean values and the Mann-Whitney U test.Results: On the personal level, students stressed that mobility can improve their self-confidence (Z = –2.088, p = 0.037) and acceptance of other cultures (Z = –3.116, p = 0.002). On the professional level, they highlighted the need to upgrade students' professional competencies (Z = –3.116, p = 0.002), particularly in the field of culturally competent nursing care (Z = –2.391, p = 0.017).Discussion and conclusion: The benefits reported by nursing students seem to show that it is sensible to continue to support and promote international student mobility programmes.

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