Transnational Students: Long-Term/Degree Program Mobilities

Abstract

This chapter begins by providing some overview data about international study mobility (ISM), and then presents a brief review of the recent ISM literature, which focuses on flows of students from one part of the world to another; motivations, desires and drivers influencing these flows; and other effects and impacts this phenomenon elicits for international students and hosting institutions. The chapter then turns to spatial and mobilities theories to rethink how we understand the processes associated with and effects of ISM. This post-foundational lens highlights the spatiality of ISM, higher education and knowledge production; the significance of networks, including regional hubs, for understanding ISM; the production of mobile, spatialized identities through ISM, and finally socio-spatial differentiations that contribute to and reinforce patterns of inequality.