ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which states have sought to link the competitive student recruitment regimes and the competitive migration regimes for mutual benefit. The policy experiments over the past decade have revealed a range of unforeseen consequences that have resulted in what the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education refers to as policy 'pendulum swings' in the UK and Australia, and frequent rule changes and recalibrations in many countries. The chapter outlines the types of regulatory measures, policy levers that host governments employ to selectively allow some graduated international students to remain, requiring others to leave. It considers the policy objectives that lead to use the tools describe, and the unexpected consequences of the measures enacted. The chapter reviews the cases of the UK, Australia and Singapore, which embraced student migration strategies wholeheartedly, only to pull back after a few years. The Australian government responds stepping up policing in dangerous areas of capital cities around suburban train stations.
