Foundations Reading List

We recommend that researchers read the Essentials Reading List first before moving on the articles listed below. The articles on this list are not repeated below.

1. Introductory texts about internationalisation
2. Introduction to critical internationalisation studies
3. Historical overviews of internationalisation and international students
4. Macro influences on internationalisation and international students
5. Coloniality and internationalisation

Introductory texts about internationalisation

Altbach, P.G., Knight, J. (2007). The internationalization of higher education: Motivations and realities. Journal of Studies in International Education, 11(3-4), 290-305. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315307303542

Buckner, E., & Stein, S. (2020). What counts as internationalization? Deconstructing the internationalization imperative. Journal of Studies in International Education, 24(2), 151–166. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319829878 

de Wit, H. & Altbach, P.G. (2021). Internationalization in higher education: Global trends and recommendations for its future. Policy Review in Higher Education, 5(1), 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322969.2020.1820898

Jones, E., & de Wit, H. (2012). Globalization of internationalization: Thematic and regional reflections on a traditional concept. AUDEM: The International Journal of Higher Education and Democracy 3, 35-54. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/500242  

Knight, J. (1994). Internationalization: Elements and checkpoints. (Research Monograph, No 7). Ottawa, Canada: Canadian Bureau for International Education. Available at: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED549823.pdf 

Knight, J. (2004). Internationalization remodeled: Definition, approaches, and rationales. Journal of Studies in International Education, 8(1), 5-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315303260832 

Leask, B. (2009). Using formal and informal curricula to improve interactions between home and international students. Journal of Studies in International Education, 13(2), 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315308329786 

Mittelmeier, J., Rienties, B., Gunter, A., & Raghuram, P. (2021). Conceptualizing internationalization at a distance: A “third category” of university internationalization. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(3), 266-282. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1028315320906176

Rizvi, F., & Walsh, L. (1998). Difference, globalisation and the internationalisation of curriculum. Australian Universities’ Review, 41(2), 7–11. https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=200001429;res=IELAPA 

Introduction to critical internationalisation studies

Beck, K. (2012). Globalization/s: Reproduction and resistance in the internationalization of higher education. Canadian Journal of Education, 35(3), 133-148. https://www.jstor.org/stable/canajeducrevucan.35.3.133

Brandenburg, U., & de Wit, H. (2011). The end of internationalization. International Higher Education, 62, 15-17. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2011.62.8533

Cousin, G. (2011). Rethinking the concept of ‘western’. Higher Education Research and Development, 30(5), 585-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2011.598449

George Mwangi, C.A., Latafat, S., Hammond, S., Kommers, S., Thoma, H., Berger, J., & Blanco-Ramirez, G. (2018). Criticality in international higher education research: A critical discourse analysis of higher education journals. Higher Education, 76(6), 1091–1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0259-9

Khoo, S-M; Haapakoski, J. and Hellstén, M. (2018). Moving from interdisciplinary research to transdisciplinary educational ethics: Bridging epistemological differences in researching higher education internationalisation(s). European Educational Research Journal, 18(2), 181-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904118781223

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

Riaño, Y., Van Mol, C. & 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

Rizvi, F. (2019). Global interconnectivity and its ethical challenges in education. Asia Pacific Education Review, 20(2), 315–326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-019-09596-y

Shahjahan, R. A., & Kezar, A. J. (2013). Beyond the “national container”: Addressing methodological nationalism in higher education research. Educational Researcher, 42(1), 20-29. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X12463050

Shahjahan, R. A. & Edwards, K. (2022). Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education. Higher Education, 83 (2), 747–764.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00702-x

Stein, S. (2019). Critical internationalization studies at an impasse: Making space for complexity, uncertainty, and complicity in a time of global challenges. Studies in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1704722 

Vasilopolous, G. (2016). A critical review of international students’ adjustment research from a Deleuzian perspective. Journal of International Students, 6(1), 283–307. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v6i1.570

Vavrus, F., & Pekol, A. (2015). Critical internationalization: Moving from theory to practice. FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2 (2), 5-21. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1133848

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

Historical overviews of internationalisation and 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

Altbach, P.G., & de Wit, H. (2015) Internationalization and global tension: Lessons from history. Journal of Studies in International Education, 19(1), 4-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315314564734 

Buckner, E. S. (2017). The changing discourse on higher education and the nation-state, 1960-2010. Higher Education, 74, 473-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-0056-2

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 

Indelicato, M. E., & Pražić, I. (2019). The legacy of cold war anti-racism: A genealogy of cultural distance in the internationalisation of higher education. Paedagogica Historica, 55(2), 295–313. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2018.1551410 

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

McCartney, D. (2016). From ‘welcome sojourners’ to ‘dangerous immigrants’: Exploring discourse in international student policy talk, 1945-1975. Historical Studies in Education, 28(2), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.32316/hse/rhe.v28i2.4457

Paik, A. N. (2013). Education and empire, old and new: HR 3077 and the resurgence of the US university. Cultural Dynamics, 25(1), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374013491640

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 

Macro influences on internationalisation and international students

Bamberger, A., Morris, P., & Yemini, M. (2019). Neoliberalism, internationalisation, and higher education: Connections, contradictions, and alternatives. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(20), 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2019.1569879 

Buckner, E. (2020). Embracing the global: The role of ranking, research mandate, and sector in the internationalisation of higher education. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1753499

Collins, H. (2018). Interculturality from above and below: Navigating uneven discourses in a neoliberal university system. Language and Intercultural Communication, 18(2), 167–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2017.1354867 

Forbes-Mewett, H., & Nyland, C. (2013). Funding international student support services: Tension and power in the university. Higher Education, 65(2), 181-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-012-9537-0

Hagen, J. (2022) Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education. British Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3805

Hauptman Komotar, M. (2019). Global university rankings and their impact on the internationalisation of higher education. European Journal of Education, 54(2), 299–310. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12332 

Kamola, I. (2014). US universities and the production of the global imaginary. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 16(3), 515-533. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-856X.2012.00540.x

Kondakci, Y., Bedenlier, S., & Zawacki-Richter, O. (2018). Social network analysis of international student mobility: Uncovering the rise of regional hubs. Higher Education, 75, 517-535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0154-9

Lomer, S. (2017). Soft power as a rationale for international education in the UK: A critical analysis. Higher Education, 74, 581-598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-0060-6 

Marginson, S. (2006). Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education. Higher Education, 52, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1007%252Fs10734-004-7649-x

Marginson, S. (2021). What drives global science? The four competing narratives. Studies in Higher Education.  https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1942822

Martinez, C.A.F. (2022). University, neoliberalism and hegemonic bodies: narratives of international students in Chile. Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2022.2142529

Roulleau-Berger, L. (2021). The fabric of post-Western sociology: Ecologies of knowledge beyond the “East” and the “West”. The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-021-00144-z

Sá, C. M., & Sabzalieva, E. (2018). The politics of the great brain race: Public policy and international student recruitment in Australia, Canada, England and the USA. Higher Education, 75(2), 231-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0133-1

Shahjahan, R. A., Blanco Ramirez, G., & Andreotti, V. D. O. (2017). Attempting to imagine the unimaginable: A decolonial reading of global university rankings. Comparative Education Review, 61(S1), S51-S73. https://doi.org/10.1086/690457

Simpson, J. S., James, C.E., & Mack, J. (2011). Multiculturalism, colonialism, and racialization: Conceptual starting points. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 33(4), 285-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2011.597637

Stehr, N., & Ufer, U. (2009). On the global distribution and dissemination of knowledge. International Social Science Journal, 60(195), 7-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2009.01697.x

Suspitsyna, T. (2021). Internationalization, Whiteness and the biopolitics of higher education. Journal of International Students, 11 (S1), 50-67. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v11iS1.3843

Yang, L., & Tian, L. (2022). Rethinking the ‘global’ in global higher education studies: From the lens of the Chinese idea of tianxia. Oxford Review of Education, 48(4), 536-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2079617

Coloniality and internationalisation

Chatterjee, S., & Barber, K. (2020). Between ‘here-now’ and ‘there-then’: The West and Asia’s colonial entanglements in international higher education. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00538-x

Majee, U. (2020). Beyond the global-local binaries of higher education internationalization in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of Studies in International Education, 24(1), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319889869

Papoutsaki, E. & Rooney, D. (2006). Colonial legacies and neo-colonial practices in Papua New Guinean higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 25(4), 421-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360600947434

Thondhlana, J., Abdulrahman, H., Chiyevo Garwe, E., & McGrath, S. (2020). Exploring the internationalization of Zimbabwe’s higher education institutions through a decolonial lens: Postcolonial continuities and disruptions. Journal of Studies in International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315320932319 

Udah, H. (2021). Coloniality of power and international student experience: What are the ethical responsibilities of social work and human service educators?, Ethics and Social Welfare, 15 (1), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2021.1880612

A helpful bank of research about decolonising the curriculum can be found here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/headline_899836_en.html

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