ABSTRACT
This article explores policies and practices of global citizenship and internationalisation within higher education in Canada and Ireland, comparing two Canadian and two Irish universities. The cases suggest a number of entangled and contradictory strands of internationalisation, with implications for global citizenship. Underlying notions of globalisation, citizenship and ‘development’ are interrogated and issues surrounding the local/global distinction, privilege and marketisation are discussed. International relations paradigms and the ‘development connection’ are examined as broader determinants of understandings of global citizenship.
