Governing Asian International Mobility in Australia

This book examines the governance of Asian student and academic mobility, which has transformed the higher education landscape. While campuses are experiencing an unprecedented level of diversity, knowledge creation remains explicitly Eurocentric and dominated by the Global North. The authors advocate for a new educational paradigm that takes into account the transcultural flow of knowledge on campus as a public good, capitalises on Asian students and academics' multilingual competencies, and offers them equal access to creating quality-orientated education. The book argues that international higher education must be grounded in both a plurality of knowledges and the ethics of cognitive justice, and that the governing policies should facilitate the higher education sector to build a platform of internationalising affect and effect on campus.

List of contents

1. Transformed Australian Eduscape: the Mobility of Asian International Students and Academics.- 2. Theorising the Eduscape I: the Neoliberal, the Managerial and the Regulatory State.- 3. Theorising the Eduscape II: Contesting 'Modernity', the Global South and Alternative Framing.- 4. Asian International Students on Australian Campus.- 5. Asian Academic Mobility in Australia.- 6. Mobility and Governance: toward an internationalised higher education?

About the author

Xianlin Song is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Her research focuses on Chinese women’s literature and international higher education mobility. 
Greg McCarthy is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Previously, he held the prestigious BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University, China.

Product details

• Authors: Greg McCarthy, Xianlin Song
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2019
• EAN: 9783030241698
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3024169-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Illustrations: XI, 200 p. 4 illus. in color.
• Series: Mobility & Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; C, Education, Culture, Cultural Studies, International Relations, Citizenship, Political Science and International Studies, higher education, International Relations Theory, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Educational sociology, Ethnicity in Education, Civics & citizenship, Australasia, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Australasian Culture