The Janus-Faced Nature of Higher Education Internationalization: Racialization, Xenophobia, and Ethnic Exclusion

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The symposium presents four papers that investigate racialization, xenophobia and ethnic exclusion in higher education internationalization, predominantly in the Global South. While the study of higher education internationalization in the Global North remains as relevant as ever, the manifestation of internationalization elsewhere is crucial to understanding the power dynamics of education exchanges, student mobility, and institutional policies and practices. Although racialization may have been conceptualized as a global issue, the ways in which race is articulated at the local level is historically, culturally and temporally contingent. These papers present ethnographic cases of racialization of higher education in and between Japan, South Africa, China, the US, and Myanmar, while attending to how race intersects with class, language, ethnicity, and citizenship status.

Sub Unit

• SIG-International Studies

Chair

• Kathryn Moeller, University of Cambridge

Papers

• Inbound Student Mobility to Study Destinations in the Global South: The Case of South Africa - Upenyu Silas Majee, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Studying Between Pearl River Delta and the U.S. Midwest: Rethinking Race in Transnational Education - Shanshan Jiang, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Myanmar's Higher Education Reform: A Tool for Ethnic Minority Exclusion? - Jennifer Otting, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Kathryn Moeller, University of Cambridge