International Students: Cross-Cultural Psychological Perspectives

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The purpose of this chapter is to examine a particular group, international students, and study the ways in which they exemplify many of the central issues in cross-cultural psychology. Today, international educational exchange—the movement of students and scholars across national boundaries—is a phenomenon in countries throughout the world. Upward of 1 million students annually are now studying in countries other than their own and the number is increasing. Few nations in the world are unaffected by the presence of international students in their own universities or the demand to study abroad on the part of their own students. The flow of students and scholars, along with the emerging global economy and growing interdependence among nations, is altering higher education as we know it. Once comparatively homogeneous student bodies are ...

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