ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates Switzerland’s only bilingual university—the University of Fribourg—promoting both French and German to its students while engaging in internationalization processes requiring teaching, research, and networks in English. Drawing on the result from an ethnographic study with multilingual students, the chapter examined (inter)-national student practices, perspectives, and language policies to better understand how mobility interacts with identity and language development. We revealed that international students face fewer challenges than national students since they can typically use English as a linguistic resource, whereas local students are expected to assimilate more and have higher national language skills. The chapter advocates equitable multilingualism, successful integration of (inter)-national students, and the deconstruction of language hierarchies due to “Englishized” higher education.
