This book explores questions around the meaning and significance of international student migration. Framed in relation to the mobilities and immobilities of international students, the book highlights various key themes emerging from the rich interdisciplinary scholarship in this area, including socio-economic diversification in mobile students, the differential value of international higher education, and citizenship and state-building projects. It also discusses the importance of considering ethics in relation to student migrants. This pioneering book will be of interest and value to scholars of student mobilities and the international student experience more widely, as well as practitioners and policy makers. 

Johanna Waters is Professor of Human Geography University College London, UK, visiting fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. She works on aspects of household migration and education with a particular interest in East Asia. Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean at the University of Surrey, UK, an executive editor of theBritish Journal of Sociology of Education and co-editor of the Research into Higher Education book series. Her research interests focus on the sociology of education.  

Chapter 1.Student migrants and contemporary educational mobilities.- Chapter 2. Geographies of international student mobilities.- Chapter 3. Socio-economic diversification.- Chapter 4. The value of international higher education.- Chapter 5. Migration, State-Building and Citizenship Projects.- Chapter 6. Learning and classroom experiences.- Chapter 7. Ethics and student mobility.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.