Beings, Belongings and Places A Qualitative Study on International Students‘ Networks

Based on narrative interviews with international students including egocentric network maps, this book explores international students’ role in the contexts they live in and how transnational spaces and internationality are (co-)created and defined in the students’ relationships. It offers insights into how students’ beings and belongings are intersected by connections to various places. These insights are an invitation to develop new strategies for internationalisation within higher education institutions by taking into consideration the students’ existing transnational networks.

Internationalisation myths and transnational realities.- Support in international students’ relationships.- From international students to transnational study.

Alice Altissimo, PhD, is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Social and Organisational Pedagogy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. She has worked in various international projects, e.g. on peer language tutoring, transnationalising higher education curricula, and on youth mobility in Europe. Her main research interests include (youth) mobilities and migration, social network analysis and transnationalism.