Higher Education and Student Mobilities from the Global South

Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9781032987545
  9780367480998
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040320419
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Comparative Education

This interdisciplinary collection explores student mobilities from the Global South, focusing on how class, ethnicity, and gender influence decisions, experiences, and outcomes in studying abroad.

Featuring post- colonial perspectives from Brazil, Indonesia, Ghana, and India, the collection highlights the unique challenges and opportunities faced by these students. It includes personal narratives that add a qualitative dimension, illustrating the individual agency and resilience of international students. The role of educational institutions and policies in shaping mobility is also addressed, including a discussion of how universities and governments create opportunities or barriers. Overall, this collection provides valuable insights into the interplay of class, ethnicity, and gender in shaping educational trajectories from the Global South.

By centering student perspectives, it examines national, transnational, and institutional factors that either promote or inhibit mobility. It will be of interest to students, lecturers, researchers, ministries, and NGOs working on higher education research and migration studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction: International Student Mobility from the Global South
• Part I International Student Mobility from the Global South and Higher Education Policies
• 2 Mobility Capital of International Students from the Global South during the Pandemic
• 3 The Impacts of a US Government Scholarship Program on African Student Mobility
• 4 National Higher Education Internationalization: How Policies in the UAE and Russia Shape Incoming International Student Mobility
• 5 Beyond the Question of Return or Stay: Scholarships for Students as a Tool for International Development Cooperation?
• Part II Postcolonial Frames, Transnational Networks, and Intersectionality in Student Mobilities from the Global South
• 6 Cape Verdean Recruitment Networks in Portugal: Migrant Women in Engineering Courses
• 7 Transnational Connections and Indian Overseas Students in the United Kingdom
• 8 Female African Students in Brazil: Considering the Intersectionality of Gender and Race in International Students’ Mobility Dynamics
• 9 Challenges of International Student Mobility: Gender, Age, and Family in Indonesia, Thailand, and Tanzania
• 10 Navigating Higher Education: Mobilities and Aspirations in the Life Trajectories of Non-Traditional Students in Northeast India
• Part III Outcomes and Impacts of International Student Mobility from the Global South
• 11 Intersectionality in Transnational Postgraduate Labor Market Transitions of Mobile Students from the Global South: A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Perspective on Two Case Studies
• 12 Education Mobility as ‘Bridges’: The Case of Indonesian Students in China
• 13 Emerging Regional Education Hubs and Their Attraction for International Students Unable or Unwilling to Move West: The Case of Turkey and Malaysia
• 14 Conclusion: Student Mobility from the Global South – Cross-Cutting Themes and Prospects for Future Research
• Index