Migration, Diversität und institutioneller Wandel in den Ingenieurwissenschaften
Wissenschaftliche Leiterin / Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban
Informationen zu unserer Konferenz
Keynote Speaker Announcement
We are thrilled to announce Prof. Parvati Raghuram from the Open University (UK) as the keynote speaker of our conference on “Transitions and Mobilities. International Students’ Aspirations”!
Parvati Raghuram
Professor of Geography and Migration, The Open University
Monday, July 18th 2022 | 10:30 – 11:30
Researchers as intermediaries in student transitions: Implicatedness in international student migration research.
SHORT ABSTRACT
There is a plethora of research on international student migration conducted by researchers around the world. Many of those undertaking the research are, however, also recruiting, supervising and mentoring international students. Some of them are international students themselves. However, there is little recognition of the multiple roles that we as researchers play and the forms of responsibility and care that it engenders. How do we, as researchers transition between our different roles and what does this tell us about transitions more widely, including the transitions that students make?
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. She came to the UK after her MA in India and did her PhD in the UK. She has published widely on retheorising migration of international students and skilled migrants. She is currently leading a grant on decolonisation of education as a pedagogical challenge in interdisciplinary and intercontinental research. She has co-authored Gender, Migration and Social Reproduction (Palgrave), The Practice of Cultural Studies (Sage), Gender and International Migration in Europe (Routledge) and co-edited South Asian women in the diaspora (Berg) and Tracing Indian diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations (Sage). She has written for policy audiences having co-authored research papers for a number of think-tanks such as IPPR, UNRISD, the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, IPPR and UNRISD and co-edited a special issue of the journal Diversities for UNESCO. She co-edits the journal South Asian Diaspora with the Centre for Study of Diaspora, Hyderabad and the Palgrave Pivot series Mobility and Politics with Martin Geiger and Nicola Piper.
Unser Call for Papers:
Transitions and Mobilities
International students’ aspirations
Final conference of the BMBF research project MigIng
Migration, Diversity and Institutional Change in the STEM Field
July 18-19, 2022, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Conference Venue: Morgensternhaus Fulda, Germany
Conference Convenors: Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni, M.A.
International student flows have increased rapidly over the last decades – with 6.1 million in 2019, more than twice as many since 2007 (OECD, 2021) – with the US, the UK, Australia and Germany being the most popular destinations. Internationalization, and particularly the growth in international students’ mobility, is considered an important vehicle for the creation and transfer of knowledge, with benefits accruing to both higher education institutions and knowledge-based economies. In this light, many host countries are implementing more active migration policies, aiming to facilitate the transition of international higher education students to employment and to tackle skills gaps in the labor markets.
While studying abroad results in a variety of advantages for the students, transitioning across countries, educational systems and later on, into and within the labor markets, also confronts them with challenges. Within these multiple contextual transitions, international students are faced with differences in social and organizational cultures of countries and institutions, languages, as well as interpersonal expectations, realities and relationships (Jindal-Snape & Rienties, 2016), which can also have a large impact on their overall experiences and future academic success (Hellstén, 2007).
International students are highly diverse in terms of their social class, gender, age, nationality, citizenship and ethnicity, which is also tightly entangled with international students’ transitions within higher education and their aspirations and subsequent strategies accessing the labor markets. These
transitions are also coined by the multiple roles of international students (King & Raghuram, 2012) as actual and potential workers, refugees, temporary or permanent migrants and transnational family members.
Reflecting on current trends and complexities surrounding international student mobilities, the conference “Transitions and Mobilities. International Students Aspirations” explores international students’ trajectories – from ‘home’ to the ‘host’ institution, from returning back to their home countries as well as from staying abroad. These diverse transitional experiences of international students are mediated by intersecting social inequalities such as social class, gender, age, nationality, citizenship and ethnicity. The conference highlights these multiple inequalities, including, but not limited to, the following fields:
- higher education structures and policies
- study experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic
- transitions from higher education to the labor markets
- exchanging views on the practical implications for higher education institutions in dealing with the diverse academic experiences of international students.
We particularly welcome conference papers, which are related to transitions, mobilities and international students’ aspirations within higher education and into/within the labor markets.
Please send your abstract of up to 250 words, your title and institutional affiliation to Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban (carola.bauschke-urban@sk.hs-fulda.de) and Dorina Dedgjoni (dorina.dedgjoni@sk.hs-fulda.de) by Sunday, 15th of May 2022. Notification of acceptance will be given by May 23rd, 2022.
Das BMBF-Projekt MigIng untersucht
- Faktoren, die zum Studienerfolg bzw. Misserfolg internationaler Studierender in den Ingenieurwissenschaften führen
- MigIng vergleicht mehrere Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften in unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftsregionen
- die Übergänge internationaler Studierender vom Studium in die regionalen Arbeitsmärkte
Forschungs- und Transferperspektive
- qualitative und quantitative Erhebungen in einer Langzeitperspektive
- Praxistransfer
- Zusammenarbeit Hochschulen und regionale Arbeitsmärkte
Aktuelles
Motivation
Methoden & Ziele
Das BMBF-Projekt MigIng nutzt einen multimethodischen Ansatz:
- qualitative und quantitative Erhebungen
- gezielter Praxistransfer zum institutionellen Wandel der internationalisierten akademischen Bildung in den Ingenieurwissenschaften
- Experteninterviews
- bildungsbiographische Interviews
- Online-Befragungen
- Langzeitperspektive
- Workshops für den Wissenschafts-/Praxistransfer
Folgende Ziele verfolgt das BMBF-Projekt MigIng:
- Analyse des institutionellen Wandels durch Studierendenmigration in ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen an Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften
- Analyse der Bildungsverläufe von zugewanderten Studierenden (einschließlich studierende Flüchtlinge)
- Transferperspektive zum Übergang vom Studium in den Beruf in Kooperation mit Praxispartnern
Vorträge & Publikationen
- Covid 19 and Inequalities. Experiences of International Students in Germany. Vortrag auf der 15. Konferenz der European Sociological Association 2021 / Universidad Barcelona, Research Network 35: Sociology of Migration, 31.8.-3.09.2021, Online Vortrag (Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni, Stephanie Michalczyk)
- Impact of COVID-19 on International Students in Germany: Challenges and Vulnerabilities. Vortrag auf der 18. IMISCOE-Jahreskonferenz, 08.07.2021, online conference (Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni, Stephanie Michalczyk).
- Dealing with Diversity in Higher Education: Challenges to STEM Education in Germany. Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der STS Conference der TU Graz (Annual Conference of Science, Technology and Society), 05.05.2021, online conference (Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni, Stephanie Michalczyk).
- Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften als Organisationen und ihre Reaktion auf die Herausforderungen der Globalisierung. Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops „Organisationaler Wandel und Diversität durch Zuwanderung” im Rahmen der BMBF-Förderlinie “Migration und gesellschaftlicher Wandel”, 29.10.2020, online conference (Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni, Stephanie Michalczyk).
- Student Mobilities from the Global South. Panel-Organisation, 17. IMISCOE-Jahreskonferenz, 02.07.2020, online conference (Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni, Uwe Hunger, Sascha Krannich).
- Experiences and Challenges of Accommodating International Students in Germany. Vortrag im Rahmen des Panels “Student Mobilities from the Global South” auf der 17. IMISCOE-Jahreskonferenz, 02.07.2020, online conference (Dorina Dedgjoni, Stephanie Michalczyk).
- Student Mobilities from the Global South. Panel-Organisation an der 3. Transmobilities-Development Konferenz, 29.11.2018, Universität Utrecht (Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni).
- Migration, Diversität und institutioneller Wandel in den Ingenieurwissenschaften (MigIng). 1. Statustagung des DLR der BMBF Förderlinie “Migration und gesellschaftlicher Wandel”, 16.11.2018, Bonn (Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dorina Dedgjoni).
MigIng-Konferenzen & Workshops
20. Januar 2022: Digitaler Transferworkshop „Internationale Studierende in den Ingenieurwissenschaften: Der Weg durch das Studium“
BMBF Projekt
Migration, Diversität und institutioneller Wandel in den Ingenieurwissenschaften (MigIng)
Wissenschaftliche Leiterin / Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban
Fachbereich Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften
Hochschule Fulda
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen
Dorina Dedgjoni, M.A. (Projektmitarbeiterin seit 01/2019)
Dr. Stephanie Michalczyk (Projektmitarbeiterin seit 03/2020)
Studentische Mitarbeiterinnen
Laura-Rose Hauser, B.A.
Lisa Strube, B.A.
Hannah Clausen, B.A. (Honorarkraft)