Salvation, Redemption, and Cash Cows: (Re)Viewing the History of Chinese International Students in the United States

• In Event: 43.080 - Sheraton Roundtable Six - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 43.080-1 - Contestations of the Nation-State: Ownership and Answerability in Curriculum

Abstract

International students (ISs) have become a prominent presence in U.S. higher education. For the past seven years, Chinese international students (CISs) have been the largest group, accounting for 31.5% of ISs and contributing $11.43 billion to the U.S. economy in 2015/16 (IIE, 2016). As part of an ongoing writing collaboration, two Asian female doctoral students conducted a (re)view of the history of the CISs in the U.S. through a critical lens, with the hope to (a) to draw attention to the often-neglected points of fact with regard to CISs; (b) to reveal the trends and changing profiles of CISs; (c) to question the current pervasive neoliberal view of CISs and ISs as a whole.

Authors

• Yiming Jin, Georgia Southern University

• EunKyoung Chung, Teachers College, Columbia University