Higher Education and Student Mobilities from the Global South: Exploring Student Motivations, Experiences, and Outcomes

This interdisciplinary collection explores student mobilities from the Global South, focusing on how class, ethnicity, and gender influence decisions, experiences, and outcomes in studying abroad.

Featuring post- colonial perspectives from Brazil, Indonesia, Ghana, and India, the collection highlights the unique challenges and opportunities faced by these students. It includes personal narratives that add a qualitative dimension, illustrating the individual agency and resilience of international students. The role of educational institutions and policies in shaping mobility is also addressed, including a discussion of how universities and governments create opportunities or barriers. Overall, this collection provides valuable insights into the interplay of class, ethnicity, and gender in shaping educational trajectories from the Global South.

By centering student perspectives, it examines national, transnational, and institutional factors that either promote or inhibit mobility. It will be of interest to students, lecturers, researchers, ministries, and NGOs working on higher education research and migration studies.

Carola Bauschke-Urban is a Professor of Sociology with a specialization in Gender and Diversity Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Fulda University of Applied Sciences in Germany. She is an editor of GENDER ＂Journal for Gender, Culture and Society＂ and is the author and co-author of several publications in journals and books.

Dorina Dedgjoni is a researcher at Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences, Germany. In her PhD research, she examines the life courses and professional careers of graduates, who moved to Italy for study reasons. In addition to an M.B.A. degree from the University of Nantes, she holds an M.A. in Social and Cultural Studies from Fulda University of Applied Sciences.