Résumés
Abstract
In this paper, I examine the conditions that give rise to what is said in interviews with international students regarding a web of interconnected policies that regulated their mobility into Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. I adopt Bacchi and Bonham’s (2016) post-structural interview analysis and focus on the production of two subject positions across the interviews: one that becomes associated with risk and one that becomes associated with resistance to certain policy processes. The participants in this study include master’s and PhD students from Brazil, China, Colombia, and India. My analysis suggests the need for an understanding of international student mobility in a more relational way that highlights the geopolitical aspects in the access to higher education in Canada for international students.
Keywords:
- international students,
- Canada,
- mobility,
- COVID-19 pandemic,
- policy effects
Résumé
Dans cet article, j’examine les conditions qui donnent lieu à ce qui est mentionné dans les entretiens avec des étudiants internationaux concernant un ensemble de politiques interdépendantes qui ont réglementé leur mobilité au Canada pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. J’adopte l’analyse poststructuraliste d’entretiens de Bacchi et Bonham (2016) et me concentre sur la production de deux positions de sujet à travers les entretiens : l’une associée au risque et l’autre à la résistance envers certains processus politiques. Les participants à cette étude sont des étudiants en master et en doctorat originaires du Brésil, de la Chine, de la Colombie et de l’Inde. Mon analyse suggère la nécessité de comprendre la mobilité des étudiants internationaux d’une manière plus relationnelle qui met en évidence les aspects géopolitiques de l’accès à l’enseignement supérieur au Canada pour les étudiants internationaux.
Mots-clés :
- étudiants internationaux,
- Canada,
- mobilité,
- pandémie de COVID-19,
- effets des politiques
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