Full Description
From international tuition hikes and discriminatory immigration policies to racially motivated violence and geopolitical tensions, international students encounter numerous political issues while studying abroad. Yet it is often assumed that international students are politically passive and disengaged rather than actively contributing to the political life of higher education institutions and the host country more generally. The present book challenges this assumption by bringing together the work of scholars from various fields of study to examine international student activism, advocacy, and political engagement in higher education settings. Drawing upon different research approaches, this book showcases scholarship exploring the multifaceted ways in which international students engage with the "political" as well how the policy environments and socio-political atmospheres in both host and home countries shape these experiences. Far from being passive bystanders, international students have exercised their political agency through diverse forms of collective action over the past century, and this edited collection calls for a renewed focus on the political dimensions of the international student experience.
Contents
Introduction: Re-imagining the Political Lives of International Students
Chapter 1: Korean Student Revolutionaries in the United States, 1919-1937
Chapter 2: Chinese International Student Activism in the United States: The Case of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars
Chapter 3: A Collaborative Autoethnography: Two International Graduate Students' Journeys of Developing a Commitment to Racial and Social Justice
Chapter 4: The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Supporting Student Activism: A Duoethnography of Two Racialized International Students
Chapter 5: Burnt Out, Tokenized, yet Empowering: How Two International Student Advocates Engaged in Activism
Chapter 6: "Another Way to Raise Awareness": Narratives of Activism and its Risks among LGBTQIA International Students
Chapter 7: "To See if the Experiment with Institutionalizing Democratic Rules Would Work": Chinese International Students' Engagement with Democracy in US Higher Education
Chapter 8: "It's Easier to See What's Missing" or "It's Not Our Space to Contest"?: How Social and Cultural Capital Shape Political Engagement for International Students
Chapter 9: Going Against the Grain: Lessons from International Graduate Students, Scholars, and Allies at the University of Maryland-College Park
Chapter 10: The Politics of Higher Education Immigration: Applying a Narrative Policy Framework to Examine Advocacy Efforts for International Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chapter 11: "That Can Come Back to Haunt You": Student Visas and Study Permits as Perceived Impediments to Political Activism among International Students
Chapter 12: Not "Passive Bystanders": Exploring the Spaces of International Students' Political Engagements
Conclusion
