Inequalities in Study Abroad and Student Mobility: Navigating Challenges and Future Directions

Bringing together a range of contributions from diverse international scholars, this edited volume explores issues of inequality in student mobility to consider how schools, universities, and colleges can ensure equitable access to international study and exchange.

Featuring evidence-based accounts of students’ experiences and exploring opportunities for study abroad in school and university contexts, Inequalities in Study Abroad and Student Mobility analyses how pedagogy and student support services can be designed to accommodate linguistic, cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic differences. Chapters foreground issues of access and opportunity and offer unique insights to inform institutional policy in developing more effective, inclusive, and equitable ways to internationalize exchange and study abroad programs and initiatives for all.

This timely volume will benefit researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of international and comparative education, as well as educators and school leaders working within secondary and higher education settings concerned with multicultural education.

Suzan Kommers is Research Associate at Nuffic, the Dutch Organization for Internationalization in Education, Netherlands. Suzan Kommers received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in which she primarily investigated internationalization of the higher education system.

Krishna Bista is Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy at Morgan State University, USA. Krishna is Founder/Executive Editor of the Journal of International Students and the founding Chair of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Study Abroad and International Students SIG.