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Towards a More Just Canadian Education-migration System

International Student Mobility in Crisis

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ID12967620
AuthorsLisa Ruth Brunner (0000-0002-1765-4284, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume16
Issue1
Pages78-102
Publication date2022-01-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Social Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788
PublisherBrock University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26522/ssj.v16i1.2685
OpenAlexW4206956088
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited50

Education-migration, or the multi-step recruitment and retention of international students as immigrants, is an increasingly important component of both higher education and so-called highly-skilled migration. This is particularly true in Canada, a country portrayed as a model for highly-skilled migration and supportive of international student mobility. However, education-migration remains under-analyzed from a social justice perspective. Using a mobility justice framework, this paper considers COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s education-migration system at four scales: individuals, education institutions, state immigration regimes, and planetary geoecologies. It identifies ethical tensions inherent to Canada’s education-migration from a systems-level and suggests that a multi-scalar approach to social justice can both usefully complexify discussions and introduce unsettling paradoxes. It also stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to reimagine rather than return

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Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
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