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Replication Data for: Geographies of educational mobilities: exploring unevenness, difference and changes in international student flows (with Richard Perkins), The Geographical Journal, 180 (3), 2014, pp. 246-259

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Title Replication Data for: Geographies of educational mobilities: exploring unevenness, difference and changes in international student flows (with Richard Perkins), The Geographical Journal, 180 (3), 2014, pp. 246-259
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9NPT2G
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description A growing number of individuals are choosing to study abroad although, like other manifestations
of globalisation, the sources and destinations of these migratory flows are highly uneven. Within the
context of ongoing debates about the motives for overseas study, the reproduction of class advantage,
and countries’ competitive advantage for internationally mobile students, this paper seeks to
improve understanding of these variations. We situate international student mobilities within a
theoretical framework which connects recent work in geography, emphasising the differentiation
advantage derived from foreign study, with insights more commonly applied to labour migration
which emphasise costs and benefits. Our findings, based on a statistical analysis of a large sample
of country pairs, call into question the central importance commonly ascribed to countries’
university quality in shaping the mobilities of international students. Far more influential is income
in destination countries, together with relational ties created by colonial linkages, common language
and pre-existing migrant stocks. Unique to the literature, we not only demonstrate important
differences in the determinants of international student mobilities between developed and developing
countries, but also between different sub-groupings of developing countries. Indeed, an
important insight from our study is that it may be useful to move beyond binary classifications, and
to deploy more refined country categorisations in seeking to understand contemporary corporeal
mobilities.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric