Abstract
ABSTRACTInternational students have become an increasingly important research object – not only on the basis of the overall expansion and importance of international students in higher education and in national economic policies, but also since they constitute a strategic research object for understanding the global landscape of higher education. By using correspondence analysis on a data set on countries of destination and regions of origin, the global space of international students is depicted. The analysis reveals a structure with three main poles, a Pacific pole, a Central European one and a French/Iberian one. The three poles correspond to three different logics of recruitment: a market logic, a proximity logic and a colonial logic. The three poles and logics are also related to linguistic structures. The Pacific/Market pole is dominated by English, while the Central European pole has German and Slavic languages as a common denominator, and the French and Iberian pole has French, Spanish and Portuguese in common with their former colonies. It is argued that the Pacific/Market pole is the dominating pole in the space due to the high concentration of resources of different sorts, including economic, political, educational, scientific and not least, linguistic assets.
Highlights
During the last decade, we have seen an increasing interest in international students
The analysis reveals a structure with three main poles, a Pacific pole, a Central European one and a French/Iberian one
The three poles correspond to three different logics of recruitment: a market logic, a proximity logic and a colonial logic
Summary
We have seen an increasing interest in international students. Given that the focus here is on the relations between nation states on basis of the flows of international students between them social space seems most appropriate to use Both the notions of ‘field’ and of ‘space’ have, in Bourdieu’s own oeuvre, mainly been used in a national context. Some nation states are clearly more market-oriented than others and the degree of marketpenetration is highly adequate to use as a variable in the analysis of the positions of nation states in the global space of international student migration Another notion that would be reasonable to use is ‘world system’, construed by Immanuel Wallerstein (1991) to designate the global economic landscape and identifying a centre, a semi-periphery and a periphery. I would like to highlight the statement by Bigo and Madsen (2011, 221): ‘One of the goals of a Bourdieusian encounter with the international is to map the international, that is, to provide an empirical visualization of the international.’ One such empirical visualisation of the international will be provided in this article
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