scholarly journals The changing map of international student mobility

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Peters ◽  
Stephanie Hollings ◽  
Man Zhang ◽  
Eric Atta Quainoo ◽  
Hejia Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Diverse Background ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

This article presents fifteen essays following a prompt on the changing map of international student mobility through three disruptions, namely Brexit, America First and COVID-19. These essays written by postgraduate students at Beijing Normal University were collected during the Spring semester of 2020 and edited by Stephanie Hollings and Zhang Man under the supervision of Professor Michael Peters. The fifteen texts, written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlight the many factors and faces of the changing map of international student mobility from fifteen different perspectives. The world map is a key aspect of these essays as it is not only important as a geographical concept but as a discourse of knowledge, power, identity and ideas that will be reflected in each student’s interpretation of international student mobility. Each student draws on their own diverse background and lived experiences, some as Chinese students and some as international students in China, to give light to these disruptions through the eyes of ‘globally mobile’ students, making an important contribution to global discussions on international student mobility. These students, reflecting on being in the midst of a pandemic spreading across the world map, imagine the future post-COVID-19 and how that will interplay with the other two major student mobility disruptions of recent years (Brexit and America First) to impact international student mobility, international education, the ever-changing map of international student mobility and the discourse that comes from that changing map.

scholarly journals Engaging Underrepresented International Students as Partners: Agency and Constraints Among Rwandan Students in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-122
Author(s):  
Aryn Baxter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Scholarship Recipients

As international student mobility expands and student populations grow increasingly diverse, there is a need to engage underrepresented international students as partners to better understand their lived experiences and co-construct supports for navigating the opportunities and constraints that accompany mobility. This article presents findings from a multisited ethnography that examines the experiences of scholarship recipients from Rwanda pursuing undergraduate degrees in the United States. Drawing on spatial and transnational theories, the study illuminates how student engagement is constrained by conflicting expectations, representations, and relationships and highlights how students exercise agency as they navigate their international education experiences. In drawing attention to the diversity of international students’ spatial imaginaries, the study provides a starting point for universities to develop deeper and more sensitive understandings of mobile students’ differences.

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 Who Goes Where and Why: An Overview and Analysis of Global Educational Mobility

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-124
Author(s):  
Krishna Bista
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Educational Mobility ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Study Overseas

The number of international students and scholars studying and working in a culture beyond their own has significantly increased in past few years. The mobility of students and scholars bring a diverse and global educational exchange of cultures, ideas, and technological innovations to the culture of colleges and universities. In this context, Who Goes Where and Why, written by Caroline Macready and Clive Tucker (2011), is a significant contribution to the field of international student mobility and study abroad. In this book, the authors analyze the trends of students on why and how they study overseas, and how the national policies of hosting and sending countries affect the decisions of those mobile students. 

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 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.

scholarly journals The economic impacts of international student mobility in the globalization process

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 3853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faruk Levent
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Market Area ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Cost

Globalization, which has various effects on economic, financial, political, sociological and cultural developments, also influences the field of education. One of the outcomes that arise due to the effects of globalization is related to the increase in international student mobility. This has paved the way for the emergence of a new market area in which international students are regarded as a source of income. Purpose of this study is to examine the economic impacts of international student mobility in the globalization process. The document analysis is used in the study. In this study, the data analysis consists of three parts. The first part is about the cost of international education while the second part explicates the economic impacts of international student mobility. Finally, the third part reviews policies aimed at increasing the number of international students. According to the information obtained from this study international students provide significant revenue to the economy of their host country by bearing the cost of tuition fees and non-educational expenses as well as by contributing to the production of knowledge and technology. 

scholarly journals The International Education Market: Some Emerging Trends

2016 ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Kemp
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Major Exception ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Selection Of

This article provides a brief overview of recent trends in international student mobility and implications for higher education institutions as they seek to recruit international students. International student mobility has continued to surge, as reflected in recent data from most major destination countries. However changes are occurring, some large and some subtle, and a selection of these trends are briefly discussed below. The major exception to strong enrolment growth in recruitment has been the UK, where tough immigration regulations have impacted directly on international student numbers.

scholarly journals International Student Mobility

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Bista ◽  
Ghanashyam Sharma ◽  
Uttam Gaulee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Simple Logic

Student mobility has increasingly become a key issue of policy and practice in higher education. This chapter presents a set of critical views about international student mobility globally, setting the context for emerging voices and critical lenses. The authors argue that educators should look into the bigger picture of mobility to understand its complex and multifaceted issues which go beyond counting enrollment numbers. Where do students go to study and why? Where do they come from and who was able to leave home? What obstacles do students face and how do they overcome them? There are some of the central questions of student mobility discourse. In this backdrop, the authors argue that students must be treated fairly by the simple logic of reciprocity: international students are “international” in the host countries in the same way as study abroad students will be “international” by default in the receiving countries. The only question is whether we are ready to accept a humane world where mobile students are valued as part of a global community and for global good, rather than just viewed in terms of mercenary drives of the market.

scholarly journals “The changing map of international student mobility” as an experiment in collective and co[labor]ative writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hollings
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
International Student Mobility

This short paper explores the collective writing experiment that materialized into the paper, “The Changing Map of International Student Mobility” (Peters, Hollings et al., 2021). It explains how 15 students of Professor Michael A. Peters, each writing 500-word essays, were able to create a unique and diverse dialogue on international student mobility. By being reliant on numerous perspectives, this dialogue offered a more holistic outlook on recent disruptions to international education and international students. Thus, the dialogue offered a collective approach to knowledge production within a knowledge socialist pedagogy.

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