Description
This must-read book combines carefully selected contributions to form a collective scholarly critique of existing research with international students, focusing on key critical and conceptual considerations for research where international students are participants or co-researchers. It pushes forward new agendas for the future of research with international students in global contexts, posing new sets of problems, provocations, and possibilities.
Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars, this book explores the many facets of research, which centres international students and their experiences. Each chapter concludes with practical reflection questions, suggestions for researchers, and examples in existing research to support research designs and aid in developing high-quality, critical research on this topic.
Bringing fresh perspectives to the topic of research with international students, the book focuses on:
- Outlining current problems with existing research, including the ways that international students may be stereotyped, homogenised, Othered, or framed through deficit and colonial narratives
- (Re)-conceptualising key ideas that underpin research which are currently taken for granted
- Developing reflection points and practical guidance for new research designs which centre criticality and ethics
- Outlining ways that discourses and narratives about international students can be made more complex, particularly in reflection of their intersectional identities
This key text is essential reading for researchers at all career stages to reflect on issues of power, inequality, and ethics, whilst developing understandings about critical choices in research design, analysis, and the presentation of findings.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Table of Contents
Section 1: How is current research positioned? 1. Working towards inclusive definitions of international students: Reflecting, refiguring, reconceptualising as international students and researchers Summer Bennett, Asuka Ichikawa, Yuqi Lin, Meena Pannirselvam and Thornchanok Uerpairojkit 2. Mapping the subfield of existing research with international students Jenna Mittelmeier, Sylvie Lomer, Heather Cockayne and Rui He Section 2: What inhibits critical research? 3. Unpacking the devaluation of international students and moving towards the humanisation of international students’ experiences Ly Thi Tran and Trang Hoang 4. Stereotypes of international students: Reflecting on our scholarly responsibilities through conceptual framings Tang T. Heng and Nannan Lu 5. Causes, mechanisms and consequences of Othering international students in higher education Yang Liu and Yizhu Qian 6. Coloniality of power and research with international students Hyacinth Udah 7. Deficit narratives in research on international students Sylvie Lomer, Sophia Hayat Taha, and Aneta Hayes Section 3: How can understandings of international students be made more complex? 8. Developing complex narratives about international students Josef Ploner 9. Calling race into research with international students: Confronting omissions Shannon Hutcheson 10. Intersectional issues in research with disabled international students Armineh Soorenian 11. Breaking binaries, engendering multiplicity: Decolonizing and queering research with international students Hoa N. Nguyen, Ashmi Desai, Ashish Agrawal, and Kneo Mokgopa 12. Bringing gender into research with international students Siqi Zhang and Jenna Mittelmeier 13. From privilege to differentiation: International students’ class reworkings Ana Luisa Muñoz-García and Teya Yu Section 4: What concepts are assumed? 14. Conceptualising to transcend: Glocal imaginaries and international studentsKalyani Unkule 15. Conceputalising ‘mobilities’ in research with international students Jihyun Lee and Johanna Waters 16. Re-conceptualising multiple and multi-dimensional transitions of international students and significant others Divya Jindal-Snape 17. International students and language: From individual ‘deficiency’ to instrument of oppression Vijay A. Ramjattan 18. Seeing international students: Challenging the culture trap Kumari Beck 19. Revisiting the conceptualisation of intercultural relationships in research with international students Kazuhiro Kudo Section 5: How can research be designed better? 20. Reflecting on international students and researcher positionality Hanne K. Adriansen and Vera Spangler 21. A decolonial praxis for research with international students Bukola Oyinloye and Bowen Zhang 22. It’s only fiction until it exists: Co-designing research with international students Mollie Dollinger, Samridhi Gupta, and Thuy-Anh Nguyen 23. Reflecting on international students’ voices and experiences in qualitative data: A narrative approach Cosmin Nada 24. Conducting critical quantitative research with international students Keanen McKinley 25. Linguistic diversity in research with and by international students: Considerations for research design and practice Richard Fay, Jane Andrews, Zhuomin Huang, and Ross White 26. Re-centring constructions of international students in writing: The ‘empire writes back’ Catherine Montgomery
