ERIC Number: EJ1285466
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Mar
Pages: 15
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Conceptualizing the Discourse of Student Mobility between "Periphery" and "Semi-Periphery": The Case of Africa and China
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, v81 n3 p437-451 Mar 2021
China is now the second most popular destination country for African international students. This paper investigates the discourse surrounding this emergent flow of students, and the main aim is to offer a new means to conceptualize mobility between non-Western nations. The article highlights weaknesses in current postcolonial conceptualizations of student mobility. A key contribution to the literature on international student mobility is that it extends and adapts existing work on the unequal and asymmetrical nature of international student mobility by drawing on the concept of semi-peripheral (post)coloniality, to examine how specific modes of integration into the "world-system" result in particular discursive formations around international student mobility. The main argument is that relative structural positions between the sending region and receiving country are mirrored in discourse around international student mobility, which contains examples of civilizational paternalism and pursuit of pragmatic foreign policy goals.
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Foreign Students, Postcolonialism, Foreign Policy, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Non Western Civilization, International Education, Higher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Africa; China
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