Looking for freedom? Networks of international student mobility and countries' levels of democracy

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ID4634692
AutoresEva Maria Vögtle (0000-0003-1348-9688, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) Hannover Germany, autor correspondente), M Windzio (0000-0002-7681-5893, University of Bremen)
Ano2020
Volume186
Fascículo1
Páginas103-115
Data de publicação2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/geoj.12329
OpenAlexW2974426304
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas40

This article analyses the network of international student mobility between OECD and European Higher Education Area (EHEA) member countries between 2000 and 2009. It aims to investigate the link between countries' levels of democracy and how this impacts on their ability to attract degree-mobile students from abroad. Social network analysis and exponential random graph modelling are used to show that the ties of student mobility occur more often when both countries in the dyad have either low or high levels of democracy and when the receiving country is also economically wealthy. The network is characterised by a core-periphery structure where a few countries act as hubs with numerous strong ties. The overall results lend support to homophily assumptions about the network of internationally mobile students and show a considerable confounding of effects of democratisation and economic prosperity on international student mobility

Democracy · Democratization · Dyad · Exponential random graph models · Graph · Homophily · Political science · Prosperity · Random graph · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology