From Political Resource to Political Liability? International Student Mobilization in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12377766 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heidi Østbø Haugen (0000-0001-6719-9235, University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 550-555 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096524001094 |
| OpenAlex | W4412918719 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Higher educational cooperation has long been central to China’s foreign relations. This article examines the political ramifications of the exodus of international students from China during the COVID-19 pandemic. China introduced some of the world’s most restrictive entry requirements for international travelers, forcing most international students at Chinese universities to study remotely between the Spring semesters of 2020 and 2022. This affected the 221,700 foreign students who were enrolled in Chinese universities, 81,600 of whom were from African countries (Mulvey 2021; UNESCO 2022). Travel restrictions were barely eased until late in the spring semester of 2022, and the border was finally opened for most students during the fall semester of 2022 (Liu and Peng 2024). Some students missed five semesters of in-person classes, and others gave up on their studies in China altogether. Thousands of students campaigned globally for the right to travel to China, attend classes in person, and get the educational experience they had envisioned
China · Economics · Liability · Mobilization · Political economy · Political mobilization · Political science · Politics · Resource mobilization · Social movement · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law
Chinese Soft Power
Soft Power and Great-Power Competition
Revolutionary friendship
Student-to-Student Diplomacy
An Unclear Attraction
Decentring” international student mobility
Learning to ‘tell China's story well’
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the softest of them all? Evaluating Japanese and Chinese strategies in the 'soft' power competition era
Global representations of international students in a time of crisis
International Higher Education and Public Diplomacy
Mobility Repertoires
China's recruitment of African university students
Popularizing racial discourse
Africans in post-Covid-19 pandemic China
Soft Power
Dreams of Flight
Ecological civilization
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |