Abstract
Recently, Europe is witnessing a transformation in the political system, concerning right-wing populist movements, around the claim that a massive influx of migrants within its territorial borders undermines the sovereignty of the nation-state. This transformation has led to issues of economic inequalities, loss of cultural identity, and influence in voting patterns. Considering the unfolding situations, we ask: What is the effect of educational migration on economic growth and social development before, during, and after the Covid-19 pandemic? How will the current political transformation processes affect educational migrants in the post-Covid-19 pandemic in Europe? Using the systematic review methodology, the authors sort to perform a comprehensive literature search; complete a critical appraisal of the individual studies gathered; and combine the valid studies using appropriate statistical techniques. The research affirmed a case that Education could not ignore politics. We perceive it will shape populist motives on educational migrants in post-pandemic Europe. The authors expectation of future research pays attention to the political transformation process and how anti-immigration discourse will exercise control over educational institutions.
Highlights
Migration, processes of political transformations and the novel coronavirus pandemic are seen to be double-edged swords that affect all sectors of the economy, geographical classifications, and some fundamentals of human existence
The general objective of this reviewed article is on Educational Migration in the Scope of Political Transformation in Post Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe
This study looked at the theory of assimilation concerning immigration in general, and it was narrowed to the context of Europe and categorically to educational migrants using ‘Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration’ journal by [Alba, Nee 1997a]9 as a guide
Summary
Processes of political transformations and the novel coronavirus pandemic are seen to be double-edged swords that affect all sectors of the economy, geographical classifications, and some fundamentals of human existence. Follow the link in the footnote to better understand a different perspective the authors looked at the Distribution of international and foreign students by region of region graph (page 232) from OECD’s education at a glance report (2020) These countries recorded 12%, 31%, 9% and 24% respectively as a share of educational migrants from the volume or the total number of immigrants recorded in 2019 (by Author’s construct from migr_resfirst- Eurostat’s online data). Some of the hypothesis the authors considered from [Alba et al 1997b] work include (1) lower duration of educational migrant’s socio-cultural and political enclave, (2) slower pace to assimilate educational migrants into host countries, and (3) second generational migrants and natives with a migration background will have the fastest transition and less/no available assimilation [consistent with the findings of Alba and Nee 1997] in the context of the proposed theory. The absence of a national policy on educational migrants to an extent explains the negative values of its percentage change from 2018 to 2019
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