Dr. Jenny J. Lee - Racism and Nationalism in International Education
Channel: Critical Internationalization Studies Network
Date: 2022-02-14

This lecture is part of the Critical Internationalization Studies Masterclass. 
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About the Lecture:

This presentation focuses on the challenges associated with discrimination against international students and scholars. More specifically, Dr. Lee discusses the concepts of neo-racism and neo-nationalism and how they surface in federal policies and university settings. She presents her latest research on ways that neo-racism occurs amidst geopolitical tensions between the US and China.

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About the Speaker:

Jenny J. Lee is a professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Deans Fellow for Internationalization at the University of Arizona. She has participated as a Fulbright scholar to South Africa, a distinguished Global Professor at Korea University and as an international visiting scholar at City, University of London, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. 

Professor Lee's research examines how migration policies, geopolitics, and social forces shape inequities in higher education. Based on her comparative research in the US, Southern Africa, and East Asia, she has introduced widely cited critical frameworks to the field. Her latest scholarship focuses on the geopolitics of global science, which is covered in her edited book, “U.S. Power in International Higher Education.” 
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To engage further with this topic, Dr. Lee suggests the following readings:

1.- Lee, Jenny J. & Charles Rice.  (2007).  Welcome to America?  International student perceptions of discrimination and neo-racism. Higher Education, 53(3), 381-409.  

2.- Lee, Jenny J. & Brendan Cantwell. (2012). The Global Sorting Machine: An Examination of Neo-racism among International Students and Postdocs.  In B. Pusser, K. Kempner, S. Marginson, & I. Ordorika (Eds.), Universities and the Public Sphere: Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era Of Globalization.  New York: Routledge, Taylor, and Francis.

3.- Lee, Jenny J. & Haupt, John P. (2020). Winners and Losers in US-China ScientificResearch Collaborations. Higher Education, 80:57-74.

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