Problematising Strategic Internationalisation: Tensions and Conflicts between International Student Recruitment and Integration Policy in Ireland

Autor/in	O'Connor, Sinéad
Titel	Problematising Strategic Internationalisation: Tensions and Conflicts between International Student Recruitment and Integration Policy in Ireland
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16 (2018) 3, S.339-352 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2017.1413979
Schlagwörter	International Education; Human Capital; Social Capital; Foreign Countries; Immigration; Student Mobility; Educational Policy; Student Recruitment; Cultural Pluralism; Social Integration; Immigrants; Skilled Workers; Classification; Foreign Students; College Students; Study Abroad; Holistic Approach; Student Needs; Statistical Analysis; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Case Studies; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Humankapital; Sozialkapital; Ausland; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Kulturpluralismus; Soziale Integration; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Facharbeiter; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Collegestudent; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Holistischer Ansatz; Statistische Analyse; Qualitative Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Irland
Abstract	Internationalisation of higher education in Ireland has been identified as a pathway to economic recovery through encouraging student mobility and attracting highly skilled human capital. International students constitute one element of recent Irish immigration trends, presenting new challenges for a society in which diversity is a relatively recent phenomenon. In this light, here I explore the contradictions and tensions that arise from the drive to recruit international students with the need to embed policies that enshrine the integration of migrants more broadly. As highly skilled migrants, international students are often perceived as 'the best and the brightest', who exhibit high levels of social and human capital. However, they occupy a contradictory position within a hierarchy that values the economic investment they make in Irish education, but categorises them into a fixed identity that does not recognise the diversity of needs to better facilitate their social inclusion. Analysing both government migration policies and university recruitment strategies reveals how policies at different scales shape hierarchies of desirability, wherein students are appraised for revenue generation but subject to surveillance, racialisation, increasing restrictions and divisive rhetoric depending on their status as non-EU students. To address this imbalance requires the implementation of holistic internationalisation strategies and migration policies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01