International Student Visibility Living and Participating in Community

• Main Author: Gomes, Catherine
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2025
• Series: Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility
• Subjects: Australia; communication; Communication studies; community; conceptualising international students; cultural assimilation; Education; engagement; Ethnic studies; integration; Interdisciplinary studies; international students; Migration, immigration and emigration; miscommunication; misunderstood; Moral and social purpose of education; Multicultural Education; Philosophy and theory of education; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; resilience; Social and ethical issues; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; student migrants; Teaching of a specific subject; temporary migrants; transience; Urban; vulnerable

This book narrates the ubiquitous relationship that international students have with their destination community, asking why students are not part of these communities despite being visible actors not only as students but as neighbours and as workers in the service industries and the gig economy. Th...