ERIC Number: EJ1436912
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-2151-0393
EISSN: EISSN-2151-0407
Social Media Sanctuaries: A Discourse Analysis of Indian International Students' Agency and Liminality during the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Bhavika Sicka; Nadiya de Ungo; Dennis Gregory
Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, v16 n3 p53-69 2024
This study employed a social media discourse analysis approach to illuminate the narratives of Indian international students in Ukraine affected by the Russo-Ukrainian war. We used agency and liminality as analytic lenses to highlight how this uniquely situated population utilized Facebook to navigate conflict, voice demands, support each other, challenge hegemonic narratives, (re)construct diasporic identities, and re-orient their futures. Findings indicate that Indian international students in Ukraine displayed insurmountable courage and resilience during the war, enacting agency from the margins to amplify their voices and actuate desired futures. Furthermore, South Asian students in Ukraine put aside their religious, ethnic, national, and caste conflicts to come together as a collective, uplifting each other and centering humanity. Little is known about how international students, especially in non-Anglocentric, peripheralized European countries, negotiate power and navigate crises during war. This study fills an important lacuna in the literature on internationalization, crisis migration, and higher education.
Descriptors: Social Media, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, War, College Students, Migrants, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Asians, Student Empowerment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India; Ukraine; Russia
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