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Australia’s Colombo plans, old and new: international students as foreign relations
This article draws on recent research and policy developments to make a case for considering international students as an important component of Australian foreign relations. It links historical and contemporary Australian experiences of international students, especially in the Colombo Plan and New Colombo Plan, to the field of public diplomacy, and sets an agenda for further research in this direction. It highlights the need to recover student voices and to be sensitive to the emergence of everyday or ‘vernacular’ internationalism, as a phenomenon of international students visiting, traveling and otherwise encountering different groups of Australians. It suggests a need to take up anew this form of inquiry for both earlier postwar student experiences and the post-1980s period, in which international students’ voices are frequently silenced by debates over commodification, funding needs, and neo-liberal economics.
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International journal of cultural policyVolume
21Issue
4Pagination
448 - 462Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1028-6632eISSN
1477-2833Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2015, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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