International Students Pathways Between Open and Closed Borders

Towards a Multi‐scalar Approach to Educational Mobility and Labour Market Outcomes

Bibliographic Data

ID9954556
AuthorsMagdalena Moskal (0000-0003-4483-9310, University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume55
Issue3
Pages126-138
Publication date2016-11-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12301
OpenAlexW2546848096
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited34

This paper explores the complex and changing relationship between academic capitalism that encourages global mobility of highly‐skilled international students on the one hand and recent changes to immigration policy in the UK that prevent such mobility on the other. The paper is based on a longitudinal study that traces the experiences and aspirations of postgraduates from three Asian countries and their pathways from the UK universities to post study work and realities. Taking a multi‐scalar approach, the analysis of international students’ narratives unpacks the unevenness of career opportunities, barriers to settlement and various “assemblages of power” that shape students’ life trajectories. The paper illustrates how the individual‐scale projects intersect with states’ policies of both receiving and sending countries and other institutions and structures of power that operate within and beyond the nation‐states

Capitalism · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law