Clarity on the crackdown Lodish, Harvey; Chen, Jianzhu; Sharp, Phillip
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
2021-Feb-26, 2021-02-26, 20210226, Letnik:
371, Številka:
6532
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Less than a month after his inauguration, U.S. President Biden moved to reverse policies that have deterred foreign students and high-skilled workers from coming to the United States. This is good ...news. The exchange of culture and knowledge drives innovation, which in turn builds the nation's economy and competitiveness on a global scale. But some countries, especially China, continue to present a dilemma when it comes to national security. In trying to strike a balance between preserving a culture of openness and protecting U.S. research, missteps can occur—and that can be detrimental to U.S. science.
Of late there has been considerable interest in understanding international student mobility, and this has tended to focus on the perspective of the students who take part in this mobility. However, ...international students are part of a considerable migration industry comprised of international student recruitment teams, international education agents and other institutions selling an education overseas (such as the British Council in a UK context) and as yet there is little research which analyses these relationships. This paper investigates a series of interviews with international office staff to examine the methods they use to recruit international students, and in particular the relationship that they have with international education agents who work with them on a commission basis. It focuses on recent changes to the UK visa system which have led to a decline in the numbers of Indian students choosing to study towards a UK higher education. However, it also reveals that some universities have managed to avoid this trend. This paper investigates why this is the case, demonstrating that there is a need to think about the intersections between migration industries, visa regulations and international student mobility.
In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals the fragility of transnationalism predicated on ...cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as the pandemic severely disrupted transnational (infra)structures predicated on state-centric transnationalism from above, the survival and well-being of diverse transnationally mobile groups, such as refugees, transnational families, and international students, have been placed under unprecedented threat. In doing so, we reflect on the configurations of transnationalism in sociological understandings of globalisation, in and beyond the context of COVID-19. We advance an urgent call for action to address the consequences of the pandemic for vulnerable people who lead precarious lives in a transnational limbo caught in the gaps between nation-states.
International students transitioning to university undergo dramatic changes in social identity, with a need to adapt to a new culture, language, environment, and way of living. This paper explores ...the impact of this social identity change on academic performance, academic retention, mental health, and life satisfaction. The Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC) predicts that during life transitions of this form, an individual’s group memberships and associated social identities can protect them from the negative effects of life change. This longitudinal study tested SIMIC among international students (N = 210) transitioning to study overseas, with data collected at three time points across a Foundation Year programme in a large Australian university. Consistent with SIMIC, continuity of social identities predicted higher academic performance and better life satisfaction, and indirectly predicted student retention over time.
Introduction. Academic adaptation of foreign students in terms of academic mobility is the basis of academic achievements and is associated with psychological well-being, which serves as a condition ...for a positive attitude towards the host country. Therefore, the study of the peculiarities of academic adaptation of foreign students will allow us to determine the conditions for their secondary socialization and psychological acceptance of the host country. Theoretical analysis. Academic adaptation of foreign students is associated with problems of cultural stress, awareness, socio-psychological relations of the host party, knowledge of the language for establishing contacts and interaction with local students and everyday problems. Academic problems themselves are considered to a lesser extent. Empirical analysis. The purpose of the study is to analyze the structure and factors of academic adaptation of foreign students. It is assumed that the social characteristics of the academic adaptation of foreigners (communicative, personal) are more pronounced than the psychophysiological ones, reflecting the physical well-being of students, the subjective assessment of their exhaustion and fatigue. Conclusion. As a result of the research, the indicators of personal, emotional and motivational and lower psychophysiological components of academic adaptation were found to be more pronounced than those of Russians. The adaptation of foreign students is conditioned by satisfaction of the basic need for connectedness with others, characterizing the possibilities of their support from relatives, connectedness with them, adaptation of Russian students - with satisfaction of the need for connectedness with others, competence, happiness and life satisfaction. Involvement in the educational activity of students, regardless of their residence status, is the most important factor in academic adaptation.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated responses such as border closure, lockdown measures and flight curtailment have severely disrupted transnational infrastructures that sustain, ...channel, organize and condition international migration. This infrastructural disruption has led to the double exclusion of temporary migrants from both sending and host societies. In this context, we explore how Chinese international students in the United Kingdom and their parents in China navigate transnational (im)mobilities during the pandemic. In doing so, we develop the conceptualization of "family-mediated migration infrastructure" to elucidate the role played by transnational family relationships in brokering information, mobilizing resources, and coordinating disjointed acts of institutional players in order to sustain transnational (im)mobility. We also reveal a distinctive emotional double-bind in the process of family-mediated infrastructuring, which requires members of transnational families to strategically perform emotional engagement and detachment in complex ways. Our findings highlight the functional resilience and emotional vulnerability of family-mediated transnational migration infrastructure, and render visible the intimate fabrics that contribute to sustaining transnationalism during the pandemic.
RESUMOEste trabalho relata a pesquisa que foi objeto da tese de mestrado de um estudante brasileiro, formado pela Universidade de Messina em Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde no Ciclo de Vida - A. A. ...2018/2019. Estudar no exterior não é uma escolha simples. Os estudantes que decidem enfrentar esse tipo de experiência encontram grandes desafios cognitivos, físicos e pessoais. Esse tipo de mudança pode expor o aluno à vulnerabilidade emocional, favorecendo o surgimento de dificuldades, como gerenciar tarefas diárias, lidar com a carga de estudos, exames e gestão do dinheiro (FORBES-MEWETT; SAWYER, 2016). O objetivo da pesquisa foi examinar a relação entre estilo de apego e experiência emocional em uma amostra de estudantes universitários estrangeiros; especificamente sintomas relacionados à ansiedade de separação e sintomas depressivos. O estudo envolveu 80 estudantes estrangeiros da Universidade de Messina matriculados em um curso de três anos; mestrado ou doutorado. Os participantes responderam a um questionário estruturado relacionado à experiência de estudar no exterior, um instrumento que verificava o estilo de apego (Revised attachment scale for adults - Version for close relationships, Collins, 1996); um instrumento que avaliava a presença de sintomas de ansiedade (Measure of severity for separation anxiety disorder – adult, APA, 2013) e um instrumento para verificar a presença de sintomas de depressão (Beck Depression Inventory II, Beck, Steer e Brown, 1967). Os resultados desta pesquisa oferecem ideias para melhorar os serviços oferecidos aos estudantes estrangeiros, a fim de incentivar a integração na Universidade de Messina e o bom resultado dos estudos.Palavras-chave: Apego. Estudantes estrangeiros. Ansiedade. Depressão. ABSTRACTThis work reports the research that was the subject of the master’s thesis of a Brazilian student, graduated from the University of Messina in Clinical and Health Psychology in the Life Cycle - A. A. 2018/2019. Studying abroad is not a simple choice. Students who decide to face this type of experience undergo great cognitive, physical and personal challenges. This type of change can expose the student to emotional vulnerability, favoring the onset of difficulties such as managing daily tasks, coping with the load of studies, exams and money management (Forbes-Mewett & Sawyer, 2016). The objective of the research was to examine the relationship between attachment style and emotional experience in a sample of university foreign students; specifically symptoms related to separation anxiety and depressive symptoms. The study involved 80 foreign students enrolled at the University of Messina in a three-year degree course; master degree or Ph.D. Participants answered a structured questionnaire related to their experience of studying abroad, as well as an instrument that checked the attachment style (Revised attachment scale for adults - Version for close relationships, Collins, 1996); an instrument that assessed the presence of anxiety symptoms (Measure of severity for separation anxiety disorder - adult, APA, 2013) and an instrument to verify the presence of depression symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory – II, Beck, Steer e Brown, 1967). The results of this research offer ideas for improving the services offered to foreign students, in order to encourage integration at the University of Messina and the successful outcome of studies.Keywords: Attachment. Foreign students. Anxiety. Depression.
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