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JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2279731
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International student mobility; higher education; migration; COVID-19 pandemic; Singapore and the UK
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This paper examines the relationship between migration governance and higher education, with a focus on the experiences of international students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a comparative qualitative study between Singapore and the UK, the research finds that pandemic governance has added complexity to migration policies and created additional barriers for international students. However, it also highlights the adaptive strategies and new possibilities that international students have explored in navigating these challenges.
This paper is concerned with the nexus between migration governance and higher education. While the intersections between these two societal/policy systems have received attention in existing literature, much has changed as a result of the recent COVID-19 crisis. The global pandemic has introduced spatial and temporal disjuncture that significantly impact how international students navigate these systems. We address this issue through the lens of international student mobility, taking postgraduate international students' perspectives as a vantage point. By drawing on a comparative qualitative study between Singapore and the UK (specifically, London), we focus on how international students experience, first, (mis)alignments between migration governance and pandemic-induced mobility regulation and, second, tensions between mobility regulations and institutional measures adopted by universities in Singapore and the UK. In both contexts, pandemic governance often compounded the complexities of migration policies, creating additional barriers for international students. In navigating these new challenges, international students adaptively draw on various resources while also imagining new possibilities presented by the otherwise challenging circumstances.
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