ABSTRACT
The portrayals emerging from specific national contexts included in the book are contested around the world and in the region itself. There is broad acknowledgement that the reputational benefits of highly ‘internationalised’ universities (in terms of global rankings and recruiting high numbers of international students) come at the cost of (mis-)representations of globally mobile learners. By problematising the geo-political scope and agential nature of supposed ‘international mobility’, the book has drawn attention to the ways that both of these constructs are dependent on local and national agendas around economic growth and inter-state, intra-regional competition. Habitual silences should, therefore, not be ignored but rather critically interrogated to enable the reader to ‘say something new’ about international students, something that may disrupt the seemingly successful politically focused actions and strategies behind so-called ‘internationalisation’.
