Étudiants du Sud et internationalisation des hautes écoles : entre illusions et espoirs

Guissé, Ibrahima; Bolzman, Claudio

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“…Non-EU foreigners who specifically move to Switzerland in order to study follow a long and often complex route into the country, via selective admission procedures to a HE institution, which are generally made from the home countries (Guissé and Bolzman 2015). Once they have obtained a place at a HE institution, non-EU citizens also apply for a student visa which is a costly and time-consuming process.…”

Section: Access To Settlement For Non-eu Graduates From Swiss Universitiesmentioning

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Zeitdiagnose Männlichkeiten Schweiz

Keller¹,

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Die Gender Studies haben sich aus den feministischen Bewegungen und kritischen Theoriebildungen des 20. Jahrhunderts heraus entwickelt. Inzwischen haben sich die Gender Studies sowohl als eigenes Lehr-und Forschungsfeld etabliert wie auch in den unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen verankert. Die Gender Studies untersuchen, wie über Geschlecht in der Vergangenheit wie in der Gegenwart gesellschaftliche Ordnung und Machtverhältnisse hergestellt werden. Dabei wird Geschlecht nicht als biologisch oder natürlich gegebene Konstante verstanden, sondern als ein historischkulturell bedingter, lebenslanger Konstitutionsprozess, als eine Existenzweise und damit immer als das Ergebnis gesellschaftlicher und individueller Prozesse.Die Reihe Geschlechterfragen publiziert theoretische und empirische Arbeiten aus dem Feld der gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung. Sie berücksichtigt verschiedene Disziplinen und sie schlägt als mehrsprachige Reihe auch Brücken zwischen sprachkulturell unterschiedlichen Forschungssensibilitäten. Die Reihe «Geschlechterfragen» wird von der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung herausgegeben. Die Reihe ist Peer-Reviewed und publiziert Open Access.

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Section: Access To Settlement For Non-eu Graduates From Swiss Universitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Zeitdiagnose Männlichkeiten Schweiz

Keller¹,

Männlichkeiten²,

Baumgarten³

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“…We focus solely on migrants from a single non-EU country (Peru) who have received at least one tertiary education diploma from a Swiss HE institution, and who were still living in Switzerland at the time of the study. Although previous research has stressed the difficulties faced by non-EU students in Swiss HE institutions, both in terms of successfully completing their educational programme and in finding qualified jobs afterwards (Guissé and Bolzman 2015), the aim of the article is to better understand the gender dynamics that are associated with post-graduation employment trajectories. We show that obtaining a Swiss HE qualification is rarely enough to guarantee access to the upper reaches of the Swiss labour market.…”

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“…The latter have to follow a long and often complex route into the country, via selective admission procedures to HE institutions. Applications to particular Swiss HE institutions are generally made from their home countries (Guissé and Bolzman 2015) and need to be accompanied by certified translations of their previous diplomas and grade certificates into one of the official Swiss languages. Each HE 2 As Riaño and Baghadi have stressed: "The term foreigner (living in Switzerland either temporarily or longterm but not having Swiss citizenship), rather than immigrant (foreign-born) is used in Swiss legislation and statistics.…”

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The Combined Effect of Qualifications and Marriage on the Employment Trajectories of Peruvian Graduates in Switzerland

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Much research to date has shown that migrants from the Global South to the wealthier nations of the North often experience a devaluation of their educational credentials, notably because their initial qualifications are not recognised in their host countries. The limited validity of educational achievements is often identified as the main cause of the relatively unfavourable labour market outcomes of highly skilled migrants, who tend to be concentrated in the least prestigious employment sectors and to bare an unequal share of precarious jobs. In this article, we adopt a slightly different approach to this issue, by focussing on the professional and personal trajectories of migrants who acquired education credentials in their host country. Although previous research has stressed the difficulties faced by non-EU students in Swiss HE

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“…Within pedagogical fields, Raghuram (2013); King and Raghuram (2013);and Madge et al (2014) proffer global knowledge theories towards situating international students not simply as individuals moving between physical locations, but as key agents in transforming and constituting new spaces within an increasingly knowledge-based global economy. As it concerns experiential accounts, studies including Chiang (2014) and state, Col life in a foreign country, meanwhile Guissé and Bolzman (2015); Khan et al, (2015) and Leung and Waters (2013) address the challenges that international students encounter during their studies and career paths.…”

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'Tiptoeing on eggshells...' - between the student-migrant-worker and the law

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International student migration makes a significant contribution to higher education in the United Kingdom (UK). They comprise a fifth of all students in the sector, and account for 14 per cent of universities' total income in 2017/18. Yet these students' impact on the UK is far more profound than simply adding a revenue stream to the university sector. Their cultural, social and economic contributions are less easy to quantify but no less important and enriching. Three quarters of international students are from non-EU countries with China sending the single most students to the UK. However, West Africa, and Nigeria in particular, is responsible for 2 per cent of the overall number of international students and is positioned joint sixth in the top ten of sending countries. Many of these student-migrants, in supplementing their finances to fund their studies in the UK, undertake employment. Temporary and/or part-time employment is integral to the student-migrant experience, despite the express purpose of their admission into the UK designated for study purposes and not work. This explicit object is reflected in restrictions affixed to international students' employment rights whilst studying; they are generally restricted to a maximum of 20 hours of work per week during term time and proscribed from working full-time or as independent contractors. Given the scant regard this topic has received in the existing literature, this study offers an examination of students' lived employment experiences under these rules. There is a dearth of insight and knowledge available on students' everyday mobilities as transnational actors, and those studies which do offer some insights are inherently fragmented. This is pertinent because any bid, albeit by the state or Higher Education Institutions, to improve the holistic experiences of international students in the UK is best served when informed by nuanced empirical accounts of their subjective experiences within specified contexts, including temporary employment. More so, considering the significant economic and socio-cultural benefits of their presence, this insight is integral to efforts towards attracting more international students to the country and strengthening the UK's position as a prime study destination. This study adopts a qualitative methodology through interviews and ethnographic observations with cohorts of international student workers from sub-Saharan Africa to present a holistic picture of the lived experiences, through employment practices, of this group of student-migrant-workers. The study aims to offer contributions to the existing body of literature in two principal ways. First, it accounts for the employment experiences of student-migrants through the analytical framework of 'precarity' by examining the various manifestations of insecurity in the students' lived realities, nuanced by structures of migration control and labour market temporalities. I discover that these students are forced to contend with intersecting forms of insecurities in their labour market encounters. This reifies their dependence on certain forms of employment and relationships, and renders them increasingly susceptible to unfavourable work conditions including low pay, exploitation, discrimination and abuse. I conclude this aspect of the study by advancing an argument that Higher Education Institutions, as the primary sponsors of these students, must do more to forearm them with candid insights on what to expect of the temporary employment market, and furnish them with a comprehensive knowledge of their accruable employment rights. For the second contribution, adopting the socio-legal schema of legal consciousness, this study considers the student-migrants' relationship with the law by way of the legal restrictions on their employment and interrogate their agency in their efforts to derogate from these rules. These derogations are conceptualised as 'semi-legality', an analytical construct that marks an indeterminate halfway point between utter illegality and compliance, as it applies to labour. I find that there are two discernible plots towards enabling semi-legal employment and evading detection thereof. The first involves the students undertaking work with different employers simultaneously, meanwhile the second entails students contracting for work through the use of private limited companies as a trading structure. I argue that the specifics of the student's violation of visa rules has profound distinctive implications for their legal consciousness disposition and more so the manner in which they simultaneously resist and make recourse to the law and its institutions towards resolving workplace grievances

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Étudiants du Sud et internationalisation des hautes écoles : entre illusions et espoirs

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

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The Combined Effect of Qualifications and Marriage on the Employment Trajectories of Peruvian Graduates in Switzerland

'Tiptoeing on eggshells...' - between the student-migrant-worker and the law

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