Chinese Students Abroad during the COVID Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities
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2020-09-25
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21st Century Global Dynamics Initiative at the Orfalea Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Abstract
COVID-19 is a human crisis that has hit international education particularly hard. International students have been directly affected by air travel cancellations and
quarantine measures which have made border-crossing almost impossible. Like many, they are victims of this crisis—particularly those from China, who constitute
the largest market within the global international education sector. Chinese international students have faced a double stigmatization since the outbreak of
COVID-19. First, they have been discriminated against by the “Chinese virus” stigma while they were overseas in the early stage of the pandemic. Second, they have been targeted in multiple ways by the anti-China politics triggered by the coronavirus. Given the fluidity of the crisis and the impacts of COVID-19 on Chinese
international students, it is worth discussing their plight. Policymakers need to
think carefully about the new dynamics of international education in terms of the huge market share of Chinese international students as related to new destination
options and changing international education policies that may further affect Chinese students now and during the post-pandemic recovery.
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Higher education, race, epidemic
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Global-E Journal, 2020, 25 Sep 2020, 13 (65), pp. ? - ? (7)