Extended Reading List

For broader expertise development

This is a longer list of high-quality research with international students. It compiles publications that design, develop, and conceptualise research with international students in critical, ethical, and innovative ways. It is a living document that is constantly being edited and added to. Please contact us if you have a paper you would like to have added to this repository.

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Conceptualising international students

Asmar, C. (2005). Internationalising students: Reassessing diasporic and local student difference. Studies in Higher Education, 30(3), 291–309. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070500095713

Brooks, R., & Waters, J. (2022). Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding “the international” in studies of international student mobility. Oxford Review of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2055536

Brunner, L. R., Streitwieser, B., & Bhandari, R. (2023). Classifications and clarifications: Rethinking international student mobility and the voluntariness of migration. Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2261416

Eulatth Vidal, W.E., & Kamp, A. (2024). Exploring international students’ perspectives on being ‘international’. Higher Education Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12565

Hayes, A., & Wang, S. (2025). International(ised) students in East and Southeast Asia: Towards a new conceptualisation. Routledge. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/International-ised-Students-in-East-and-Southeast-Asia-Towards-a-New-Conceptualisation/Hayes-Wang/p/book/9781041009795

Madge, C., Raghuram, P., & Noxolo, P. (2015). Conceptualizing international education: From international student to international study. Progress in Human Geography, 39(6), 681-701. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514526442

Marginson, S. (2014). Student self-formation in international education. Journal of Studies in International Education, 18(1), 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315313513036

Merabet, R. (2024). Students we label international: An urgent call to reconceptualise research with international students. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-01-2024-0048

Rizvi, F. (2008). Epistemic virtues and cosmopolitan learning. The Australian Educational Researcher, 35(1), 17–35. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03216873

Stein, S., & de Andreotti, V. O. (2016). Cash, competition, or charity: International students and the global imaginary. Higher Education, 72(2), 225–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-015-9949-8

Steyn, C., & Gunter, A. (2021). When an international student stays at home: defining an international student in distance education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 47(1), 56–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.1991289

Critiquing common discourses about international students

Abelmann, N., & Kang, J. (2014). A fraught exchange? US media on Chinese international undergraduates and the American university. Journal of Studies in International Education, 18(4), 382-397. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315313479852

Devos, A. (2003). Academic Standards, Internationalisation, and the Discursive Construction of “The International Student.” Higher Education Research & Development, 22(2), 155–166. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360304107

Gomes, C. (2024). The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility. Population, Space, and Place. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2834

Hayes, A. (2018). Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: What’s emotion got to do with it? International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27(2-3), 288–306. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2018.1453305

Haugh, M. (2008). The discursive negotiation of international student identities. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29(2), 207–222. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596300801966849

Jokila, S., & Plamper, R. (2025). Reimagining international students in public discourses: Can media facilitate the inclusion of international students in society?. Journal of Global Higher Education, 1(1), 111–127. https://doi.org/10.25774/jghe.v1i1.11

Marginson, S. (2012). Including the other: Regulation of the human rights of mobile students in a nation-bound world. Higher Education, 63(4), 497-512. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-011-9454-7

Mittelmeier, J. (2025). Against ‘integration’ in research and practice with international students. Journal of Studies in International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153241308744

Suspitsyna, T., & Shalka, T.R. (2019). The Chinese international student as a (post)colonial other: An analysis of cultural representations of a US media discourse. The Review of Higher Education 42(5), 287-308. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2019.0053.

Ploner, J. (2018). International students’ transitions to UK higher education – Revisiting the concept and practice of academic hospitality. Journal of Research in International Education, 17(2), 164-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475240918786690

Yang, P. (2019). Toward a framework for (re)thinking the ethics and politics of international student mobility. Journal of Studies in International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319889891

Yi, J.E., & Jung, G. (2015). Public discourses about international students. Sociology Compass, 9(9), 776-783. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12293

Critiquing research with international students

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Mittelmeier, J., Lomer, S., & Unkule, K. (2024). Research with international students: Critical conceptual and methodological considerations. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290803

Deuchar, A. (2022). The problem with international students’ ‘experiences’ and the promise of their practices: Reanimating research about international students in higher education. British Journal of Educational Research, 48(3), 504-518. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3779

Lipura, S. J., & Collins, F. L. (2020). Towards an integrative understanding of contemporary educational mobilities: A critical agenda for international student mobilities research. Globalisation Societies and Education, 18(3), 343–359. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2020.1711710

Page, A.G., & Chahboun, S. (2019). Emerging empowerment of international students: How international student literature has shifted to include the students’ voices. Higher Education, 78, 871–885 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00375-7

Spangler, V. (2024). Doing research with international students: Methodological considerations for participatory research designs. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2429833

Histories of international students

Adnett, N. (2010). The growth of international students and economic development: Friends or foes? Journal of Education Policy, 25(5), 625-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680931003782827

Choudaha, R. (2017). Three waves of international student mobility (1999–2020). Studies in Higher Education, 42(5), 825-832. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1293872

Hou, M. (2024). Historical roots in positioning Chinese international students in the US: Race and culture from 1872-1949. Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.55370/dsj.v9i2.1828

Kramer, P. A. (2009). Is the world our campus? International students and US global power in the Long Twentieth Century. Diplomatic History, 33(5), 775-806. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00829.x

Lally, M. (2024). Geopolitical implications of educational diplomacy: The Fulbright Program, 1958-2023. Journal of Studies in International Education, 28(5), 780-797. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153241275039

Legrandjacques, S. (2018). Global Students? The international mobility and identity of students from colonial India and Indochina, 1880s–1945. Global Histories, 4(2). https://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/233

McCartney, D. (2016). Inventing international students: Exploring discourses in international student policy talk, 1945-75. Historical Studies in Education, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.32316/hse/rhe.v28i2.4457

Shen, W., Wang, C, & Jin, W. (2016). International mobility of PhD students since the 1990s and its effect on China: A cross-national analysis. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 38(3), 333-353, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207599308247181

Perraton, H. (2017). Foreign students in the twentieth century: A comparative study of patterns and policies in Britain, France, Russia and the United States. Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 1(2), 161–186. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322969.2017.1303788

Practices and pedagogies with international students

Cockayne, H. (2025). Embodied journeys: international students as active co-creators of inclusive higher education spaces. Higher Education Research & Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2463525

Deuchar, A., Fu, J., Gowing, A., & Smith, C. (2024). Enacted spaces of peer learning: tracing practices of relationality among international students in higher education. Critical Studies in Education, 66(3), 373–391. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2024.2350479

Hayes, A. (2019). “We love it because we felt we existed there in the classroom!”: International students as epistemic equals versus double-country oppression. Journal of Studies in International Education, 23(5), 554-571. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1028315319826304

Jiang, J. (2024). Reimagining anti-racist translingual pedagogy through multilingual international students’ digital counter-storytelling practices. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2024.2412169

Liyanage, I., Walker, T., & Shokouhi, H. (2021). Are we thinking critically about critical thinking? Uncovering uncertainties in internationalised higher education. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 39, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2020.100762

Lomer, S., & Anthony-Okeke, L. (2019). Ethically engaging international students: Student generated material in an active blended learning model. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(5), 613–632. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1617264

Nigar, N. (2025). Rethinking diverse academic cultures in Australian higher education: An intercultural experiential-ontological topography. English in Education, 59(2), 145–161. https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2025.2474414

Ryan, J. (2011). Teaching and learning for international students: Towards a transcultural approach. Teachers and Teaching, 17(6), 631–648. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2011.625138

Spangler, V. (2025). Disciplinary perspectives on knowledge and the ‘international classroom.’ Studies in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2515116

Song, X. (2016). Educating Asian international students: Toward a transcultural paradigm. East Asia, 33(1), 1–8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-016-9252-z

Tangney, S. (2018). The development of a reflective tool for internationalisation of the curriculum. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 55(6), 640-649. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2017.1386118

Tannock, S. (2018). Educational equality and international students: Justice across borders? Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-319-76381-1.pdf

Tran, L.T. (2020b). Teaching and engaging international students: People-to-people empathy and people-to-people connections. Journal of International Students, 10(3), xii-xvii. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v10i3.2005

Wang, S., Moskal, M., & Schweisfurth, M. (2020). The social practice of silence in intercultural classrooms at a UK university. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1798215

Xu, W. (2024). African international students, work integrated learning, and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education. British Journal of Sociology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2024.2443413

Mobilities, mobility choices and motivations

Beech, S.E. (2014). Why place matters: Imaginative geography and international student mobility. Area, 46(2), 170–177. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12096

Beech, S.E. (2015). International student mobility: The role of social networks. Social & Cultural Geography, 16(3), 332–350. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.983961

Brooks, R., & Waters, J. (2021). International students and alternative visions of diaspora. British Journal of Educational Studies, 69(5), 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2021.1948501

Brotherhood, T. (2024). International student mobility to Japan: Hitting the target, but missing the point. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, & H., Cuervo (Eds.) Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Springer Nature. Available at: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-981-99-8606-4_113.pdf

Brunner, L.R. (2024). International student mobility and the politics of distance education. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13543

Chankseliani, M. (2018). The politics of student mobility: Links between outbound student flows and the democratic development of post-Soviet Eurasia. International Journal of Educational Development, 62, 281-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2018.07.006

Chankseliani, M., Kwak, J., Hanley, N., Akkad, A., Crisostomo, M., & Wang, Z. (2025). International student mobility and poverty reduction: A qualitative study of the mechanisms of systemic change. World Development, 195, 107116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107116

Collins, F.L. (2008). Bridges to learning: International student mobilities, education agencies and inter-personal networks. Global Networks, 8(4), 398–417. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2008.00231.x

Findlay, A. (2011). An assessment of supply and demand-side theorizations of international student mobility: Theorizing international student mobility. International Migration, 49(2), 162–190. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00643.x

Findlay, A., King, R., Smith, F. M., Geddes, A., & Skeldon, R. (2012). World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37(1), 118–131. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00454.xsidh

Geddie, K. (2015). Policy mobilities in the race for talent: Competitive state strategies in international student mobility. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 40(2), 235–248. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12072

Glass, C. R., & Minaeva, E. (2025). Four eras of international student mobility (1945-2025): Multipolar securitization, strategic education blocs, and the rise of middle powers . Journal of Global Higher Education, 1(1), 69–88. https://doi.org/10.25774/jghe.v1i1.336

Hattersley, D.J., & Nicholson, J. (2024). Unpacking the value sought by Chinese international students in UK higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 49(12), 2376-2395. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2306347

Isiaka, A., & Olaniyan, Y.D. (2024). Below the radar agents: Roles of virtual mentors in the decision-making process and cultural awareness of international students. Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 16(5) .https://doi.org/10.32674/ybbqqx85

Katsumoto, S., Bowman, N.A., & Tennessen, N.F. (2024). The role of rankings in shaping institutional enrollment of international students. Higher Education, 88, 2145-2164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01208

Lee, J. (2022). When the world is your oyster: International students in the UK and their aspirations for onward mobility after graduation. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 20(3), 277–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1904209

Lee, K. H. (2025). Desire and the making of the mobile subject: China as destination for international students from the west. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2025.2468666

Lee, J., & Waters, J. L. (2022). International education ‘here’ and ‘there’: Geographies, material ties and differentiated mobilities within UK degrees. Social & Cultural Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2065696

Lee, H., Jung, H., & Bae, S. Y. (2025). Framing Korea: The role of international student YouTubers in shaping destination perceptions. Current Issues in Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2025.2477783

Li, A., Nguyen, C., Le, T., & Choi, J. (2025). U.S. or Canada? How do Chinese international students make college choices? Journal of Studies in International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153251343133

Marginson, S., & Sawir, E. (2005). Interrogating global flows in higher education. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 3(3), 281-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767720500166878

Mulvey, B. (2025). Towards a more just global regime of international student mobility. Ethics and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2025.2533581

Muslim, A.B., Imperiani, E., Musthafa, B., Farlian, T., & Francisco, A. (2025). Enhancing international student motivations in Indonesian universities: Building academic reputation in the Global South. Globalisation, Societies, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2439420

Netz, N., Van Mol, C., Riaño, Y., & Raghuram, P. (2024). The role of place in international student mobility. Globalisation, Societies, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2414036

Peng, X., & Dai, E. (2025). The impact of scholarships with no compulsory service requirements on international students’ migration decision upon graduation. Economic Analysis and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2025.04.003

Sharma, K., & Peng, I. (2025). Contextualising international student migration to Canada: The case of Indian Punjab youths. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2503960

Singh, M., Rizvi, F., & Shrestha, M. (2007). Student mobility and the spatial production of cosmopolitan identities. In Spatial theories of education (pp. 205-224). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Spatial-Theories-of-Education-Policy-and-Geography-Matters/Gulson-Symes/p/book/9780415882552

Sondhi, G. (2024). The failure of infrastructures of international student (im)mobility: Case of Covid-19. Population, Space, and Place. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2837

Soysal, Y.N., Baltaru, R.D., & Cebolla-Boado, H. (2024). Meritocracy or reputation? The role of rankings in the sorting of international students across universities. Globalisation, Societies, and Education, 22(4), 252-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2022.2070131

Spangler, V. (2022). Home here and there: A spatial perspective on mobile experiences of ‘home’ among international students. Social & Cultural Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2065698

Vögtle, E.M., & Windzio, M. (2024). Does academic freedom matter for global student mobility? Results from longitudinal network data 2009–2017. Higher Education, 87, 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01015-x

Waters, J. (2006). Geographies of cultural capital: Education, international migration and family strategies between Hong Kong and Canada. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31(2), 179–192. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00202.x

Waters, J.L. (2018). International education is political! Exploring the politics of international student mobilities. Journal of International Students, 8(3), 1459-1478. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1254611

Waters, J.L., & Leung, M.W.H. (2017). Domesticating transnational education: Discourses of social value, self-worth and the institutionalisation of failure in ‘meritocratic’ Hong Kong. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(2), 233–245. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12163

Yang, P. (2018). Compromise and complicity in international student mobility: The ethnographic case of Indian medical students at a Chinese university. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(5), 694–708. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1435600

Zayim-Kurtay, M., Kaya-Kasikci, S., Kondakci, Y. et al. (2025). Im/mobility in a disruptive time: the impact of Covid-19 on the size and directional flow of international student mobility. Comparative Migration Studies, 13(15). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00431-5

Policies about international students

Buckner, E., Lumb, P., Jafarova, Z., Kang, P., Marroquin, A., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Diversity without race: How university internationalization strategies discuss international students. Journal of International Students, 11, 32–49. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v11iS1.3842

Isiaka, A. (2025). ‘When you are in Rome, you behave like the Romans’: International students’ experience of integration policies at a UK university. Genealogy. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy9010012

Lomer, S. (2014). Economic objects: How policy discourse in the United Kingdom represents international students. Policy Futures in Education, 12(2), 273-285. https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2014.12.2.273

Lomer, S. (2018). UK policy discourses and international student mobility: the deterrence and subjectification of international students. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16(3), 308–324. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2017.1414584

Mulvey, B., & Lo, W. Y. W. (2020). Learning to ‘tell China’s story well’: the constructions of international students in Chinese higher education policy. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 19(5), 545–557. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2020.1835465

Riaño, Y., Van Mo, C.l & Raghuram, P. (2018). New directions in studying policies of international student mobility and migration. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16(3), 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2018.1478721

Woldegiorgis, E.T. (2024). The impact of neo-liberal frameworks on student mobility and internationalisation in African Higher Education. South African Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.20853/38-6-5971

Yao, C.W., Hall, K., & Gause, S. (2024). ‘Are we the normal ones?’: International students’ perceptions of US politics and policies in 2020-2021. Journal of College Student Development, 65(6), 573-590. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2024.a944808

Visa and migration structures

Brunner, L. R. (2023). Higher education institutions as eyes of the state: Canada’s international student compliance regime. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21(2), 236-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2022.2037407

Brunner, L. R. (2021). ‘Edugration’ as a wicked problem: Higher education and three-step immigration. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 13(5S), 25-37. https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v13i5S.4061

Dear, L. (2018). The university as border control. International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 17(1), 7-23. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IEJ/article/view/12216

Harden-Wolfson, E., Hutcheson, S., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Representing the problem of (un)ethical practices in Canada’s post-pandemic international student policy landscape. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 55(2), 114–131. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v55i2.190701

He, J. (2025). Caught in citizenship limbo: Lessons from the 2025 international student visa crisis in the US. Critical Internationalization Studies Review, 5(1), 1-5. Available at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=cisr

Jenkins, M. (2014). On the effects and implications of UK Border Agency involvement in higher education. The Geographical Journal, 180(3), 265–270. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12066

Moskal, M. (2017). International students pathways between open and closed borders: Towards a multi-scalar approach to educational mobility and labour market outcomes. International Migration, 55(3), 126–138. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12301

International students’ broad experiences

Abdelghaffar, A., & Eid, L. (2025). A critical look at equity in international doctoral education at a distance: A duo’s journey. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13566

Arkoudis, S., Dollinger, M., Baik, C., & Patience, A. (2019). International students’ experience in Australian higher education: Can we do better? Higher Education, 77(5), 799-813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0302-x

Birindelli, P. (2023). The experience of international students: Biographical narratives and identities. Society, 60, 372-387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00809-0

Chacko, E. (2020). Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore: Experiences, understandings and responses. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1732618

Donnelly, M., & Gamsu, S. (2018). Regional structures of feeling? A spatially and socially differentiated analysis of UK student im/mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(7), 961-981. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2018.1426442

Elliot, D.L., Reid, K., & Baumfield, V. (2016). Beyond the amusement, puzzlement, and challenges: An enquiry into international students’ academic acculturation. Studies in Higher Education, 41(12), 2198-2217. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1029903

Garton, P. M., Grimm, A., & Kim, S. (2024). A developmental model for international students and multiple ecologies. New Directions for Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/he.20487

Glass, C.R., Heng, T.T., & Hou, M. (2022). Intersections of identity and status in international students’ perceptions of culturally engaging campus environments. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 89, 19–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.05.003

God, Y. T., & Zhang, H. (2019). Intercultural challenges, intracultural practices: How Chinese and Australian students understand and experience intercultural communication at an Australian university. Higher Education, 78(2), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0344-0

He, Y., & Hutson, B. (2018). Exploring and leveraging Chinese international students’ strengths for success. Journal of International Students, 8(1), 87-108. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v8i1.153

Heng, T.T. (2019). Understanding the heterogeneity of international students experiences: A case study of international students in U.S. universities. Journal of Studies in International Education, 23(5), 607-623. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319829880

Heng, T. T. (2017). Voices of Chinese international students in USA colleges: ‘I want to tell them that … ’. Studies in Higher Education, 42(5), 833-850. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1293873

Heng, T. T. (2018). Chinese international students’ advice to incoming Chinese first year students: Involving students in conversations with them, not about them. Journal of College Student Development, 59(2), 232-238. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2018.0020

Hu, X.H., Lue, K. (2025). Centring international student voice: A collaborative autoethnography and critical reflections from an equity-focused doctoral course. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01423-1

Khan Eusafzai, H.A. (2023). Inhabiting the peripheries: a Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ encounters in Kyrgyzstan. Frontiers in Education, 28. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1291357

Kirkegaard, A.M.Ø., & Nat-George, S.M.L.W. (2016). Fleeing through the globalised education system: The role of violence and conflict in international student migration. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 14(3), 390–402. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2016.1151769

Lam, D. (2025). U-curve, S-curve, or chaos: Chinese international students’ eclectic experiences. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101417

Marino, F., & Mu, Y. (2024). Visualizing identity: Multimodal and multilingual practices in international student organization’ on-campus artifacts. Multimodal Communication. https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2024-0100

Martinez, C.A.F. (2022). Affective geopolitics: Nation narratives from Colombian students in Chile. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(6), 984-997. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1847045

Mohebali, M. & Jangjou, E. (2024). Breaking silence: A critical duoethnography on examining epistemic violence in negotiating the journey as international graduate students in U.S. higher education. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1002/tl.20620

Nada, C.I., & Legutko, J. (2022). “Maybe we did not learn that much academically, but we learn more from experience”–Erasmus mobility and its potential for transformative learning. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 87, 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.03.002

Nada, C.I. & Araùjo, H.C. (2018). Migration and education: A narrative approach to the experience of foreign students in Portugal. London Review of Education, 16(2), 308-324. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1185902

Nada, C.I., & Araújo, H.C. (2017). The multicultural experience of international students in Portugal: A narrative approach. Journal for Multicultural Education, 11(3), 176–188. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-09-2016-0049

Nada, C.I., Montgomery, C., & Araújo, H.C. (2018). ‘You went to Europe and returned different’: Transformative learning experiences of international students in Portugal. European Educational Research Journal, 17(5), 696-713. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904118765334

Oleksiyenko, A., & Shchepetylnykova, L. (2024). International students and precarious societies: The complexity of mobility rationales in a war-torn higher education. International Journal of Educational Research, 128, 102464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102464

Ploner, J. (2017). Resilience, moorings and international student mobilities – Exploring biographical narratives of social science students in the UK, Mobilities, 12(3), 425-444, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2015.1087761

Ramirez, G. (2015). Learning abroad or just going abroad? International education in opposite sides of the border. The Qualitative Report, 18(31), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2013.1484

Razavipour, E. (2024). Far from perfect: Iranian international students’ experience of human dignity within Canadian/Quebec immigration system. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 8(1-2), 94-118. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMBS.2024.140113

Schnieder, J.C. (2025). International student mobility in higher education: Case studies in agency. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-80781-7

Sicka, B., Ungo, N., & Gregory, D. (2024). Social media sanctuaries: A discourse analysis of Indian students’ agency and liminality during the Russian-Ukranian conflict. Journal of Comparative and International Education, 16(3), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i3.6303

Siczek, Megan M. (2024). The lived experience of internationally mobile students: A longitudinal study. Journal of Comparative & International Education, 16(5). https://doi.org/10.32674/xcsqf896

Song, Y., & Xia, J. (2021). Scale making in intercultural communication: Experiences of international students in Chinese universities. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 34(4), 379-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2020.1857392

Soong, H., & Mu, G. M. (2025). International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study. Studies in Higher Education, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2455429

Tran, L.T., & Vu, T.T.P. (2017). ‘Responsibility in mobility’: International students and social responsibility. Globalisation, Societies, and Education, 15(5), 561-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2016.1195729

Tran, L. T (2016). ‘Mobility as becoming’: A Bourdieuian analysis of the factors shaping international student mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(8), 1268-1289. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2015.1044070

Tran, L.T. & Vu, T. (2017). ‘Agency in mobility’: Towards a conceptualisation of international student agency in transnational education. Educational Review. 28(3), 283-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2017.1293615

Wang, C.C. (2017). Conversation with presence: A narrative inquiry into the learning experience of Chinese students studying nursing at Australian universities. Chinese Nursing Research, 4(1), 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnre.2017.03.002

Waters, J.L., & Lee, J. (2024). Transnational and localised constructions of wellbeing and health: International students’ anxious embodiments. Population, Space, and Place. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2838

Wu, D.B. (2024). Emotional journeys: The pathways of African students to a Chinese higher education institution and performances of ‘emotion work’. Social & Cultural Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2024.2387046

Xu, X., Tran, L.T., Xu, X., Xie, X. (2024). Between Sang subculture and self-formation: An investigation into Haifei in China. Studies in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2376760

Xu, W. (2024). Study in China and ‘agency in mobility’: Insights from African international students’ narratives. Journal of Studies in International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153241284128

Yang, Y. (2025). Taken-for-granted understandings in access to international higher education: a study of Chinese agent-user students’ university application experiences. Educational Review, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2025.2462636

Abdin, Z.U. (2025), From remittance receivers to senders: Unpacking transnational care circulation among South Asian student migrants in Finland and Sweden. Population, Space and Place, 31, e70077. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70077

Hasnain, A., & Hajek, J. (2022). Understanding international student connectedness. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 86, 26-35, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.10.008

Huo, Y., Guo, H., & Song, Y. (2024). International students’ dynamics of belonging in a Shanghai university: A feminist, poststructuralist perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2444465

Kudo, K. (2016). Social representation of intercultural exchange in an international university. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37(2), 256-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2015.1014881

Kudo, K. (2023). Cosmopolitan agency and meaningful intercultural interactions: An ecological and person-in-context conceptualisation. Studies in Higher Education, 48(2), 329–342. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2022.2134335

Kudo, K., Volet, S., & Whitsed, C. (2019). Development of intercultural relationships at university: A three-stage ecological and person-in-context conceptual framework. Higher Education, 77(3), 473-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0283-9

Liu, C., & Wu, Y. (2024). The role of family in Chinese international student mobility under the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2024.2429546

Meng, T. (2025). Love in a transient sexual field: Female Chinese international students’ racialised desire on mobile dating applications. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804251320487

Meng, T. (2025). “Fair-skinned, young and slim” or “Kardashian-style”: UK-based female Chinese international students’ self-presentation on mobile dating applications. Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2025.2514793

Mittelmeier, J., Huang, D., Xu, L., Ozturk, M., & Broadhurst Healey, K. (2025). International students and everyday multiculturalism: rethinking ‘connection’ through mundane sites of encounter. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01396-1

Mu, G.M., Soong, H., & Zhou, W. (2025). A ‘community turn’ to engaging international students: The ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ social capital. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102173

Mullen, A.L., & Li, Y. (2024). Belonging beyond borders: A comparative analysis of international and domestic students at a Canadian university. Higher Education. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s10734-024-01351-6

Nam, B.H., & English, A.S. (2025). The myths of ‘melting pot’ and ‘California dream’: Ethnographic accounts of separation, marginalization, and intra-group conflicts among East Asian international students. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102148

O’Connor, S. (2020). The intersectional geographies of international students in Ireland: Connecting spaces of encounter and belonging, Gender, Place & Culture, 27(10), 1460-1480, https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1693342

Pastena, A. (2025). Intercultural relationships in an internationalised undergraduate classroom: Do they influence transcultural competence? European Journal of Education Research, Development, and Policy, 60(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.70049

Pham, L., & Tran, L. (2015). Understanding the symbolic capital of intercultural interactions: A case study of international students in Australia. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 25(3), 204-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2015.1069720

Yulianto, J. E. (2025). Reconnecting with kinship: Everyday practices of Indonesian international students’ reintegration into family and ethnic networks. Educational and Developmental Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1080/20590776.2025.2526332

Zhang, Y.S.D., Larsen, D.J., Noels, K.A., Hobbs, C. (2025). Fostering empathic connections between domestic students and international students in Canada via expressions of hope. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108, 102235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102235

Zhao, Q., Carey, N., & Lawthom, R. (2025). British students making sense with/in China: Relational space as a novel lens on international student mobility (ISM). Journal of Further and Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2024.2443219

Zou, T. X. P., & Yu, J. (2019). Intercultural interactions in Chinese classrooms: A multiple-case study. Studies in Higher Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1647415

Time, temporalities, and international students

Dickson, M., Bradley, L., & Read, B. (2024). International student-parents in UK higher education: A temporal analysis of their intersectional experiences and challenges. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 98, 101933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101933

Gomes, C. (2022). Shock temporality: International students coping with disrupted lives and suspended futures. Asia Pacific Education Review, 23, 527-538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-022-09793-2

Hansen, A.S. (2015). The temporal experience of Chinese students abroad and the present human condition. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 44(3), 49-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261504400303

Maury, O. (2022). Punctuated temporalities: Temporal borders in student-migrants’ everyday lives. Current Sociology, 70(1), 100-117. https://d o i.org/10.1177/0011392120936315

Shahjahan, R., Grimm, A., & Mittelmeier, J. (2024). ‘Time’ and international students. Higher Education Research & Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2410267

Wang, B. (2021). Time, temporality, and (im)mobility: Unpacking the temporal experiences among Chinese international students during Covid-19. Population, Space, and Place, 28(5), e2545. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2545

Waters, J. (2022). Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme. British Educational Research Journal, 49(2), 314-328. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3844

Xu, C.L. (2025). The time inheritors: How time inequalities shape higher education mobility in China. SUNY Press. Available at: https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Time-Inheritors

International students’ broadly intersectional experiences

Hoang, A.P., & Jordan, L.P. (2019). Internationalisation and intersectionality in Hong Kong university student life: An exploratory study of social exclusion. Multicultural Education Review, 11(2), 114-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/2005615X.2019.1615247

Hutcheson, S. (2020). Sexual violence, representation, and racialized identities: Implications for international students. Education and Law Journal, 29(2), 191-221. https://www.proquest.com/openview/94841c5430526c8b9b15683788e2074c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=44752

Liu, J. (2017). Beyond the cultural approach: Understanding the experience of Chinese international students in Canada from an intersectionality perspective. International Journal of Chinese Education, 6(2), 236–258. https://doi.org/10.1163/22125868-12340082

Lobnibe, J. Y. (2013). Different worlds, mutual expectations: African graduate student mothers and the burden of U.S. higher education.” Journal of Education and Learning, 2(2), 201–209. https://doi.org/10.5539/jel.v2n2p201

O’Connor, S. (2020). The intersectional geographies of international students in Ireland: Connecting spaces of encounter and belonging. Gender, Place, & Culture, 27(10), 1460-1480. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1693342

Olenina, A., Bamberger, A., & Mun, O. (2021). Classed and gendered internationalisation of research and knowledge production: A critical analysis of international doctoral students in the UK (1998-2016). International Studies in Sociology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2021.2008266

Park, H., & Francis, M. (2024). “People would just say, ‘that doesn’t exist.’”: An analysis of the experiences of racialized international students as settler colonial, racial, and gendered violence. Comparative and International Education, 53(3). https://doi.org/10.5206/cie-eci.v53i3.16855

International students and race

Adan, A., Masamha, R., Hart, P., & Nghishitende, J. (2025). Seeking epistemic justice: Experiences of agency, power, and epistemic disobedience among Black African international doctoral students. Australian Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70010

Boafo-Arthur, S. (2014). Acculturative experiences of Black-African international students. International Journal of Advanced Counseling, 36(1), 115–124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-013-9194-8.

Brown, L., & Jones, I. (2013). Encounters with racism and the international student experience. Studies in Higher Education, 38(7), 1004–1019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2011.614940

Changamire, N., George Mwangi, C.A., & Mosselson, J. (2022). International students and the neoliberal marketplace of higher education: The lived experiences of graduate students from Sub-Saharan countries in Africa of a U.S. university’s internationalization policy. Higher Education, 84, 505-521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00782-9

Edwards, K.T., & Shahjahan, R.A. (2024). Antiblackness as global aspiration? Centering Black studies in global higher education research. Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X241281051

Fei, M. (2025). Re-examining Fries-Britt’s learning race in a U.S. context: Emergent framework drawing on the micro-level narratives of international students in the United States. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 16(5). https://doi.org/10.32674/etcvg369

Fei, M. (2025). Practice implications for supporting international students’ racial learning in the U.S. Critical Internationalization Studies Review, 4(1). Available at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=cisr

Fries-Britt, S., George Mwangi, C.A., & Peralta, A.M. (2014). Learning race in the U.S. context: Perceptions of race among foreign-born students of color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 7(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035636

Gao, S. (2025), Language ideologies of racial microaggression and institutional whiteness: Experiences of Chinese international students in UK higher education. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12693

George Mwangi, C.A., Changamire, N. & Mosselson, J. (2018). An intersectional understanding of African international graduate students’ experiences in U.S higher education. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 12(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000076

George Mwangi, C.A., & English, S. (2017). Being Black (and) immigrant students: when race, ethnicity, and nativity collide. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 19(2), 100–130. https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v19i2.1317

George Mwangi, C. A. (2020). Black international student lives matter. International Higher Education, (104), 6-8. https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/14335

George Mwangi, C.A., & Onyewuenyi, A.C. (2025). Hidden in Blackness: Being Black and being an immigrant in U.S. schools and colleges. Teachers College Press. https://www.tcpress.com/hidden-in-blackness-9780807786925

Hale, A., & Lam, D. (2024). “I was pissed off at her ignorance”: When an international student protests against racist humour in a university tutorial. European Journal of Humour Research, 12(4). https://ww.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/968

Hernandez, G.L. (2021). Racial unspeakability: Affect and embodiment in Swiss international higher education institutions. Journal of International Students, 11(S1), 108–132. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v11iS1.3846

Houshmand, S., Spanierman, L. B., & Tafarodi, R. W. (2014). Excluded and avoided: Racial microaggressions targeting Asian international students in Canada. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20(3), 377. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035404

Kim, J.-H. (2016). Racism, equity, and quality of education for international students in South Korean higher education institutes. Frontiers of Education in China, 11(3), 338–355. https://doi.org/10.3868/s110-005-016-0027-3

Kim, S. (2025). “What I had experienced was, in fact, a microaggression”: A phenomenological inquiry into international students of color developing critical racial consciousness. The Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2025.2522037

Kim, S. (2024). Transnational resilience: Exploring international students’ agency in response to systemic racism in U.S. higher education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2416709

Koo, K. K., Yao, C. W., & Gong, H. J. (2021). “It is not my fault”: Exploring experiences and perceptions of racism among international students of color during Covid-19. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 790-811. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000343

Lee, J. J. (2007). Neo-racism toward international students. About Campus, 11(6), 28–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/abc.194

Lee, J.J. (2020). Neo-racism and the criminalization of China. Journal of International Students, 10(4), i–vi. https://doi.org/10.32674/jisv10i42929

Lee, J.J. & Rice, C. (2007). Welcome to America? International student perceptions of discrimination. Higher Education, 53(3), 381-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-005-4508-3

Lee, J.J., Jon, J.-E., & Byun, K. (2017). Neo-racism and neo-nationalism within East Asia: The experiences of international students in South Korea. Journal of Studies in International Education, 21(2), 136–155. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315316669903

Li, L., Mawene, D., & Chandrashekhar, S. (2024). Navigating becoming people of color in higher education: A duoethnography of three international students of color. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2388665

Liu, Y., & Croucher, S. (2022). Becoming privileged yet marginalized Other: American migrants’ narratives of stereotyping-triggered displacement in China. Asian Journal of Social Science, 50(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajss.2021.06.006

Liu, Y., & Dervin, F. (2022). Racial marker, transnational capital, and the Occidental Other: White Americans’ experiences of whiteness on the Chinese mainland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(5), 1033-1050. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1763785

Ma, L. (2025). Invisible racism rethought: A globally oriented approach to anti-Chinese racism. Educational Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2025.2486761

Madriaga, M., & McCaig, C. (2019). How international students of colour become Black: A story of whiteness in English higher education. Teaching in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1696300

Nam, B. H., Marshall, R. C., Tian, X., & Jiang, X. (2021). “Why universities need to actively combat Sinophobia”: Racially-traumatic experiences of Chinese international students in the United States during COVID-19. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1965957

Ortiga, Y. Y. (2025). Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: Ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education. Comparative Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2025.2520720

Ramia, G. (2021). Crises in international education, and government responses: A comparative analysis of racial discrimination and violence towards international students. Higher Education, 82, 599-613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00684-w

Rodriguez, M., Mohamed, M., & Barthelemy, R. (2023). Microaggressions faced by international students in the US with a discussion on critical race theory. Journal of International Students, 13(3), 236-253. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v13i3.4620

Strong, K., Walker, S., Wallace, D., Sriprakash, A., Tikly, L., & Soudien, C. (2022). Learning from the movement for Black lives: Horizons of racial justice for comparative and international education. Comparative Education Review. https://doi.org/10.1086/722487

Suspitsyna, T. (2021). Internationalization, whiteness, and biopolitics of higher education. Journal of International Students, 11(1), 50-67. https://ojed.org/index.php/jis/article/view/3843

Wei, M.L., & Bunjun, B. (2020). “We don’t need another one in our group”: Racism and interventions to promote the mental health and well-being of racialized international students in business schools. Journal of Management Education, 45(1), 65–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562920959391

Yao, C. W., George Mwangi, C. A., & Malaney Brown, V. K. (2019). Exploring the intersection of transnationalism and critical race theory: A critical race analysis of international student experiences in the United States. Race Ethnicity and Education, 22(1), 38–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2018.1497968

Yao, C.W., Oates, E.Q., Briscoe, K.L., Buell, K.J., & Rutt, J.N. (2023). Re/negotiating race and racialization for international students of colour in the US. Journal of College Student Development, 64(1), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2023.0003

Yao, C. W., Briscoe, K. L., & Rutt, J. N. (2021). In the aftermath of a racialized incident: Exploring international students of color’s perceptions of campus racial climate. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 14(3), 386–397. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000179

Yu, J. (2022). “I don’t think it can solve any problems”: Chinese international students’ perceptions of racial justice movements during COVID-19. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000457

International students and gender

Al-Qahtani, H., Carroll, V., & Pfeffer, K. (2022). Parenting, resilience, and adaptation among female international students from Saudi Arabia and their families. Journal of Family Studies, 28(2), 422-437. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2020.1715820

Azim, K. A., & Happel-Parkins, A. (2019). Veiled aggression: Saudi women international students’ experiences of microcolonization in the United States. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2018.1522010

Brooks, R. (2015). International students with dependent children: The reproduction of gender norms, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(2), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2013.820128

Cin, F.M., Roos Brienes, M., Raghuram, P., & Gunter, A. (2025). Exploring homeplace as a nexus of learning and socially reproductive labour: A feminist perspective on internationalisation at a distance. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13553

Deuchar, A. (2023). Degrees of care: Theorising the masculinities of Indian international students in Australian universities. In G. Stahl & Y. Zhao (Eds.), Migratory men: Place, transnationalism, and masculinities. Routledge.

Forbes-Mewett, H., & McCulloch, J. (2015). International students and gender-based violence. Violence Against Women, 22(3), 344-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801215602344

Lin, Y., & Kingminghae, W. (2017). Intimate relationships and mobility intentions of Thai international students in Chinese universities: A gendered analysis. Population, Space, and Place, 24(5), e2120. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2120

Martin, F. (2017). Mobile self-fashioning and gendered risk: Rethinking Chinese students’ motivations for overseas education. Globalisation, Societies, & Education, 15(5), 706-720. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2016.1264291

Song, J. (2020). Contesting and negotiating othering from within: A Saudi Arabian female student’s gendered experiences in the U.S. Journal of Language, Identity, & Education, 19(3), 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2019.1654386

Sondhi, G., & King, R. (2017). Gendering international student migration: An Indian case study. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(8), 1308-1324. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1300288

Tarzia, L., Navarro Medel, C., McLindon, E., Ezer, P., Forbes-Mewett, H., Tran, L. T., Murdolo, A., & Hegarty, K. (2025). Experiences of sexual and intimate partner violence among women international students in Australia. Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251323267

Zeng, W. (2025). Performing girlhood and sisterhood in China: Chinese international student influencers’ everyday self-presentation on RedNote. Social Media + Society, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251356160

Zhang, J., & Allen, K. R. (2019). Constructions of masculinity and the perception of interracial relationships among young male Chinese international students and scholars in the United States. Journal of Family Issues, 40(3), 340–362. https://doi.org10.1177/0192513X18809751

Zhang, S., & Xu, C.L. (2020). The making of transnational distinction: An embodied cultural capital perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(8), 1251-1267. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1804836

International students and LGBTQ+ identities

Adeyemo, K. S. (2019). Filipino university students’ attitude toward sexual minorities: Implications for international students. Journal of International Students, 10(1), 203–219. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v10i1.1030

Brown, L. (2016). An activity-theoretic study of agency and identity in the study abroad experiences of a lesbian nontraditional learner of Korean. Applied Linguistics, 37(6), 808-827. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amu075

Campbell, A.C., Dezago, J. & Townsend, Q. (2024). Queer students in international higher education: A review of distinct motivations, considerations, and challenges. Higher Education, 88, 1567–1588. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01183-4

Cui, L., & Song, L. (2024). Queer migration, heteronormativity, and the ‘ethnic closet’: Chinese queer international students’ intersectional experiences in New Zealand. European Journal of Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12608

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International students and disability

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International students and religion or spirituality

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International students and class

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Employability of international students

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Wang, F., Huang, R., Lim, W.M., & Zhang, J. (2024). Perceived employability of international doctoral students in the UK: applying Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory. Studies in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2412833

International students and sustainability

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Language and international students

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Returnee international students

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Conceptualising international students

Critiquing common discourses about international students

Critiquing research with international students

Histories of international students

Practices and pedagogies with international students

Mobilities, mobility choices and motivations

Policies about international students

Visa and migration structures

International students’ broad experiences

Time, temporalities, and international students

International students’ broadly intersectional experiences

International students and race

International students and gender

International students and LGBTQ+ identities

International students and disability

International students and religion or spirituality

International students and class

Coloniality, postcoloniality, decoloniality, and international students

Employability of international students

International students and sustainability

Language and international students

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Visa and migration structures

International students’ broad experiences

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Time, temporalities, and international students

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International students and race

International students and gender

International students and LGBTQ+ identities

International students and disability

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