Mobility and Migration in Asian Pacific Higher Education by Deane E. Neubauer; Kazuo Kuroda

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Internationalism” in higher education came to be regarded, not as a simple matter of fact, but rather as something to be instrumentally and intensively valorized. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the prevailing national geopolitical logic of international exchange began giving way to an aggressively neoliberal global economic logic in which the valorization of internationalism nevertheless remained quite powerful. 9 percent in 1985, 24 Peter D. 2 percent in 1995, 19 percent in 2000, and 26 percent in 2007 (Scott 1998; Gürüz 2008; Altbach et al.

All other things remaining equal, increased marketization, commodification, and competition within higher education are likely to reproduce therein the same kinds of disparities found in other markets where, in Ivan 32 Peter D. Hershock Illich’s memorable terms, the commodification of basic needs has translated into the institutionalization of entirely new classes of the poor. As higher education comes to be less and less fully supported and provided as a public good and delivered instead as a marketable commodity, vast populations are likely to find themselves disciplined into a compulsory, lifelong consumption of educational goods and services that will reinforce rather than eliminate poverty (Hershock 2007).

Internationalism” in higher education came to be regarded, not as a simple matter of fact, but rather as something to be instrumentally and intensively valorized. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the prevailing national geopolitical logic of international exchange began giving way to an aggressively neoliberal global economic logic in which the valorization of internationalism nevertheless remained quite powerful. 9 percent in 1985, 24 Peter D. 2 percent in 1995, 19 percent in 2000, and 26 percent in 2007 (Scott 1998; Gürüz 2008; Altbach et al.

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