Premigration International Studentship: Anticipation and Preparation, by Students and for Teachers

• In Event: Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Division B Section 5 Place and Praxis Posters

Abstract

Research on international student education focuses almost exclusively on studentship within host country contexts. Consequently, pre-migration variables impactful on post-migration student experience remain underappreciated. But also, this gap reflects a detrimental oversimplification of international studentship that separates into exclusive categories pre and post-migration experiences and remains blind to the interconnectivity different places and periods of time maintain. For example, whereas acculturative stress is commonly framed as only occurring post-migration, data from an ongoing study indicate students can experience acculturative stress before migration and respond with culturally specific preparations shown to influence student subjectivity. I seek to highlight the academic and social benefit of theorizing student mobility and educational success with the dynamic forces that extend beyond host country borders.

Author

• Justin G Whitney, University of Utah