Internationalization in Higher Education: Equity, Affordability, Epistemic Democracy? or Social Reproduction and World-Systems Stratification?

Journal of International Students
Volume 12, Issue S2 (2022), pp. 175-192
ISSN: 2162-3104 (Print), 2166-3750 (Online)
doi: 10.32674/jis.v12iS2.4359
ojed.org/jis

ABSTRACT

This  autoethnographic  paper  exposes  the  multiple  barriers  encountered  by  an international doctoral female student in the United States: health issues especially Covid-19,   institutional,   political,   geopolitical,   knowledge   production   and economic factors. Reproduction theory, the world-system analysis and intellectual imperialism are used to examine these factors exposing the illusion of equity in international  higher  education  and  its  role  in  perpetuatingtheimbalances  and exclusion of large groups of people and entire countries. Contrary to the narrative, international students are often part of these large excluded groups of people but are not regularly included in the discussion.