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Regimes of Belonging – Schools – Migrations

2021

Editorial. Migration and Education - Part 2

Power and Education, 2012

This second part of the Power and Education Special Issue dedicated to the subject of migration and education (Part 1 appeared as Volume 3, Number 3, 2011) is an important addition to the first, and a substantial contribution to the field. Depending on who you are, the term migration can connote an image of fear or xenophobia. Yet migration, the physical movement of peoples from one place to another (International Organisation for Migration, 2005), can also connote images of opportunity and diversity where migrants both learn from and benefit host systems or destination countries. We are perhaps agreed that, to some extent, migration fuels education and education systems in several countries across the globe. Similarly, education provides the lens through which migration and its relationship to education and society in general, can be understood. Within this dynamic and ever evolving relationship therefore, migration and education are neutral partners compounded in some cases, and bolstered in others, by a range of international, regional and national agreements and related policies, the aims of which are not always clear, even when the outcomes on individuals, families and national systems are plain for all to see. However, the field of education, which should serve as a platform for debates around discriminatory migratory policies, is being redefined, particularly in developed economies, as migrants and migrancy are reconstituted to safeguard national and regional interests and alliances. The end result for the field of education can only be more vigorous debates around government policies on migration, the impact of such policies on education systems, the experiences of migrants in destination countries and the place and value of migration and migrants in an increasingly globalised world. It cannot be acceptable, in modern democratic societies, for national borders and sovereignty to be protected through a notion of us against them, where they are considered less desirable. Such thinking is outmoded, outdated and contrary to democratic values of freedom, justice and equal opportunities for all. As suggested in the first part of this Special Issue, the migratory experience is inexorably fraught (Lee, 1966; Miller, 2006), making it more important for governments in destination countries to consider and pursue integration activities, hinged on the notion of equality and social justice for all those within their borders (Miller, 2011). In addition, governments in source or sending countries could, in recognising the fundamental human right of individuals to travel between countries, consider better support for would-be migrants, such as providing information about life in a range of destination countries. Nevertheless, information supplied by sending countries cannot replace the imperative for would-be migrants to educate themselves about their destination of choice. This is merely one of the ways in which migration and education are inextricably linked.

International Student Mobility and Access to Higher Education

2020

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Educational Contexts and Borders through a Cultural Lens

Cultural Psychology of Education, 2015

International Student Mobility Study. Annotated Bibliography.

Ruiz-Gelices, E., King, R. and Findlay, A. M. (2003) 'International Student Mobility Study. Annotated Bibliography'. Brighton: Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex., 2003

This Annotated Bibliography on international student mobility is the first output of a study sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and a range of other stakeholder organisations into the phenomenon of the international mobility of UK-based students. The research study runs from 1 May 2003 to 30 April 2004, and soon will be collecting a range of primary and secondary data on the scale and trends of different types of student mobility in the UK Higher Education system. The need for such a study has been identified in response to wider concerns about the level of UK student mobility in comparison to mobility trends in other EU countries, and whether this difference is significant and puts UK students at a disadvantage. This Bibliography has been one of our main tasks during the first two months of research. It is structured around six key research questions which guide the overall study. Under each question, several dozen references are listed alphabetically; more than 300 in all. Each reference is followed by a summary. Allocating individual references to each key question has not been an exact process since the questions themselves are closely interrelated and overlapping, and the content of many references, perhaps the majority in fact, cannot be easily pigeon-holed. Nevertheless, the division and allocation process was thought to be worthwhile in order to structure the bibliographic resource and to avoid an endless listing of very diverse material. The core literature on UK international student mobility is rather small. However, the available literature expands exponentially as the boundaries defining the phenomenon and its various contexts are themselves extended into cognate realms such as skilled migration, brain drain, graduate employment and mobility, institutional frameworks, related language issues, and policy. The Bibliography presented here is a constantly evolving research tool, and will be constantly refined and added to over the life of the research project. Needless to say, information about sources we have overlooked will be very welcome.

Theorising the Spaces of Student Migration

Student migration is a key component of knowledge migration. However, as knowledge becomes a central part of migrant selectivity, labour and family migrants too are involved in knowledge acquisition, both prior to and after migration. At the same time, student migrants are involved in work and family, just like other migrants. What then is distinctive about student migrants? This paper attempts to address this challenge. It begins by reviewing how migration theories have analysed student mobility. It then suggests that migration theorists need to extend existing analyses, which have primarily focused on the spatialities of migration, to take account of the spatialities of knowledge. It is argued that knowledge institutions need to reach out to people in different parts of the world and to produce in prospective students a desire to circulate. This is necessary if the institutions are to obtain a global presence and to maintain their legitimacy as knowledge brokers. An analysis of student migration where the inducements that the Higher Education Institutions offer to prospective students and the subjective responses of such students to these invitations will throw light on how the spatiality of knowledge is achieved and also highlight the distinctiveness of student migration in a knowledgeable migrant world.

International opportunities: searching for the meaning of student migration.

Allan M. Findlay, Russell King, Enric Ruiz-Gelices and Alexandra Stam (2009) 'International Opportunities: Searching for the Meaning of Student Migration' in Steven Vertovec (ed.) "Migration". London: Routledge. Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, pp. 311–324. ISBN 978-0-415-47842-7., 2009

Nowadays, migration seems never far from the top of the political agenda. Whether as a consequence of civil and ethnic unrest, or as one response to the widening gulf between the wealthy and poor zones of the world, international population movement for sanctuary or settlement has become as prevalent as increased capital flows. (Indeed, for many commentators, there is a clear connection between the fluidity of population movements and the economic and technological changes that have generated 'globalization'.) According to UN estimates, the global stock of migrants has doubled in the past forty years and now amounts to around 200 million souls living outside their places of birth. For receiving countries, migration-at once perceived as a social challenge and an economic necessity-prompts difficult debates and questions. Perhaps rather belatedly, the social sciences have recognized the importance of these issues and a significant body of new literature has accumulated in recent decades. The field is, however, intrinsically multidisciplinary with contributions stemming from economics, demography, human geography, law, sociology, political science, and social anthropology. Migration also interweaves with other important multidisciplinary fields such as gender studies, labour-market studies, and cultural studies. The sheer scale of the growth in migration research output - and the breadth and complexity of the discipline - makes this new Major Work from Routledge especially timely, and answers the urgent need for a wide-ranging collection which provides easy access to the key items of scholarly literature, material that is often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. In five volumes, Migration brings together the best and most influential foundational and cutting-edge research on: theories of migration; patterns of migration; the politics of migration; and the dynamics of migration. The collection is supplemented with a full index, and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. Migration is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.

Student-Migrant-Workers

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

This article addresses the issue of non-EU student-migrant-workers in Finland drawing on data from in-depth interviews conducted with the sub-Saharan African migrants on student visa. The migrants’ experiences of temporal limits in life and at work are examined demonstrating that student-migrant-workers have experiences of a fragmented lived time because of the temporary character of their visa. The article consequently points at the impact of student visa in creating a low-cost labour force in Finland and sheds light on the subject position of the student-migrant-worker that becomes utilisable in contemporary capitalism.

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