Diaspora and Internationalisation in Higher Education
- Dr. Annette Bamberger, Hebrew University
- Professor Terri Kim, UEL/UCL Institute of Education/St Antony’s College, Oxford
- Professor Paul Morris, UCL Institute of Education
- Professor Fazal Rizvi, University of Melbourne
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This session is an introduction to the forthcoming Special Issue: ‘Diaspora and Internationalisation in Higher Education’ in British Journal of Educational Studies, which is an outcome of the BAICE Thematic Forum held in 2019 and 2020.
Paul Morris will introduce both the forthcoming Special Issue in BJES, on which this Seminar is based and the three speakers who will present their papers.
Annette will explore recent developments in diaspora theorization in the humanities and social sciences. She will connect this burgeoning body of literature with internationalisation in higher education, presenting insights from a systematic review on the current role of diaspora in internationalisation and higher education research. She will conclude by indicating the potential of diaspora for theorizing different forms of internationalisation.
Terri’s talk will be on ‘diaspora, ethnic internationalism and HE internationalisation’ by separating ‘nation’ and ‘state’ and with a critical appropriation of diasporic subjectivity and institutions from a comparative historical perspective. She will take the Korean and Jewish cases as examples of stateless nations in the early 20th century (Kim and Bamberger, 2021 forthcoming), to explain the notion of ‘ethnic internationalism’ and the role of ‘ethnonational diaspora’ in forming and internationalising HE in the absence of a supportive status apparatus and discuss its implications for the 21st century.
Fazal will consider how higher education is a site where internationalization has become a major driver for the formation of new diasporas. He will show how these diasporas use their training and ethnic networks to take advantage of the transnational space they occupy in an increasingly globalized economy.
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Annette Bamberger is Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University. Her research focuses on global education policy and practice and the ways in which they are framed, interpreted and implemented in diverse contexts. Over the past years she has pursued a research agenda comprised of several foci, all linked to internationalisation in higher education.
Terri Kim is Professor of Comparative Higher Education (Hon. full professor at UEL), Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL IOE, and Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Her scholarly interests centre on the relations of territory, mobility, knowledge, identity, and network; ethnic nationalism/internationalism, diasporas and higher education; transnational academic mobility and identity capital as a comparative historical sociology.
Paul Morris is Professor of Comparative Education at IOE, UCL where he has worked since 2007. Previously he worked at Hong Kong University and was President of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (now the Education University of Hong Kong).
Fazal Rizvi is an Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written extensively on issues of identity and culture in transnational contexts, globalization and education policy, higher education, and Australia-Asia relations.
